If you are playing football, say, and the opposing team has Superman as a player, it is going to be difficult and probably impossible to win. The Golden State Warriors have a player, Steph Curry, with a super power. He can sink three-point shots from
The earth takes 365 1/4 days to go around the sun. So for our calendars to reflect the seasons of the year, we account for that quarter day by adding a day to the calendar every four years. And since we stick it on to
Do we need to reform the calendar to eliminate anomalies like Leap Year? Two Johns Hopkins professors, Steve Hanke (an economist and fellow of the libertarian Cato Institute) and Dick Henry (a physicist and astronomer), have been proposing the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar. It has the virtue of
(1) Former presidential hopeful New Jersey governor Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump for president. This, after Christie repeatedly said during his campaign that Trump was not qualified to be president. Now Christie is appearing with Trump, mocking Marco Rubio like he did in the recent debate.
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Catholics, liberals, and some evangelicals are saying, yes. When Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins made that claim, it blew up into a controversy that ended with her leaving the institution. But the favored position, to show our sensitivity to
Just as grassroots Republicans are voting for Donald Trump as a defiant protest against their own establishment, grassroots Democrats are voting for Bernie Sanders for much the same reasons. Read the fiery anti-Clinton, anti-liberal establishment rhetoric of Camille Paglia, quoted and linked after the jump.
Why are so many evangelicals supporting such a flagrant non-evangelical as Donald Trump? Ben Domenech, publisher of the Federalist, gives the best answer I’ve heard: The evangelicals who support Trump recognize that they have lost the culture wars, that Christianizing the government is futile, that
What are your thoughts on the Thursday night Republican debate? Who won? Who improved his standing? Who might have lost support? Rubio and Cruz were both hitting Trump hard, bringing up lots of questionable things that Trump has done, such as his record of hiring
The Republican presidential nominees hold their 10th debate tonight on CNN, starting at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This is just before Super Tuesday, March 1, when nearly half of the delegates needed for nomination will be elected. So, for the candidates, everything is at
An important Lutheran distinction is between the theology of the Cross and the theology of glory. Jeff Mallinson, over at the Jagged Word, offers 9.5 Theses on theologians of glory. After the jump, I list the theses, but you will want to go to the site
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