Now that I live in Oklahoma, I can’t help but get pulled into the vortex of the Oklahoma City Thunder. The NBA this season has been dominated by two teams for the ages, with astonishing records, hailed by many as among the best teams ever:
Now that I live in Oklahoma, I can’t help but get pulled into the vortex of the Oklahoma City Thunder. The NBA this season has been dominated by two teams for the ages, with astonishing records, hailed by many as among the best teams ever:
There is a new book out from CPH that is very much worth reading: Being Lutheran by A. Trevor Sutton, a young pastor in Michigan. In the vein of my Spirituality of the Cross, this book explains in an utterly fresh way not only what Lutherans
We mustn’t give up on the Protestant mainline. At its recent General Conference, the United Methodist Church voted to repeal its four-decades-old resolution supporting abortion. It also voted to withdraw from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. (more…)
Christopher Hitchens was one of the most prominent of the “new atheists,” but a book by evangelical author Larry Alex Taunton who travelled with him says that after his diagnosis of terminal cancer, which killed him in 2011, he was reconsidering his atheism and may
Media historian Andrew Pettegree has written a new book entitled Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation. He tells about how Luther, along with his collaborator
Feminism at first was not pro-abortion. Not only were the 19th century Suffragettes pro-life, pioneering 20th century feminists like Betty Friedan were at most ambivalent about abortion. The fact is, the early pro-abortion movement was led by men. In 1967, though, the pro-abortionist leader Larry Lader
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The Church of Scotland wants to increase membership by letting worshippers attend online. The Presbyterian state church is also considering allowing “access to the sacraments” for people are not “physically present in the congregation.” It isn’t clear what this would look like. I believe this
Brain researcher Robert Epstein explains that, contrary to what we keep hearing, the brain is NOT a computer. We don’t process information, we don’t retrieve memories, and we won’t be able someday to download our minds into the internet. (more…)
Many supporters of Bernie Sanders do not like Hillary Clinton and are vowing that they will never vote for her. The more affluent of his supporters could always vote with the Green Party, though most will settle for Clinton after all. But what about the
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