I recently posted about the Lutheran video tribute to the 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya, going on to address the accusation that the Copts are monophysite heretics. Reader Ori Pomerantz shared the post with Medhat Ghabrial, a Coptic Christian, who wrote a fascinating comment on
At Justice Scalia’s funeral, his son, Rev. Paul Scalia, a priest, gave the sermon. Compare it to other funeral eulogies and sermons that you have heard lately. This one was not about his father’s accomplishments, his good works, and sentimental memories about him. It was
We focus on the number of votes candidates rack up. But an Associated Press story reminds us that the number of delegates is everything in winning the nomination. And that might not have anything to do with the number of votes each candidate won. For
My daughter Mary Moerbe, at her blog Meet, Write, and Salutary, has been collecting Lutheran novelists. She has put together a page that lists and links to the works of 14 living novelists who are also Lutherans. If you know of others, or if you
Donald Trump was the choice of nearly one-third of South Carolina Republican voters, winning the primary. But that means that two-thirds of the Republicans voted against him. If the bottom three candidates would quit the race, their combined 22.6% of the vote would turn the tide
Jeb Bush has dropped out of the Republican presidential race. (more…)
The presidential race may get a lot clearer after today. We’ll announce the results when they are available and discuss them here. NEVADA RESULTS ARE IN: Hillary Clinton (52.2%; 12 delegates); Bernie Sanders (47.7%; 10 delegates) Polls are closed in South Carolina, and Trump, as
Pope Francis told reporters that women threatened with the Zika virus, which causes birth defects, could use contraception. Abortion, though, he emphasized, is an “absolute evil,” which should never be committed. This is extraordinary. It seems to me that if you make this exception, in which
Saturday is a big day for the presidential race. The Republicans will have a primary election in South Carolina. And the Democrats will have caucuses in Nevada. The schedule gets complicated: The Democrats will vote in South Carolina a week later, on February 27. The
Pope Francis tore into Donald Trump, saying that anyone who is all about building walls instead of building bridges is “not a Christian.” Trump responded in kind, saying that it’s “disgraceful” for a religious leader to “question a person’s faith.” In a statement, Trump went further,
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