More mind-bending insights from Luther, this time on why so many people reject God’s gifts and His grace, insisting instead that they themselves merit their salvation. “Then we are the workmen who lay the cornerstone on which God then builds His grace and love, so
Christianity Today announced its choices for the top books of the year. (more…)
Publishers of children’s and young adult books have put out a call to authors and agents for manuscripts focusing on LGBTQ characters. (The acronym standing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning.) (more…)
I was watching TV around 10:30 on Wednesday night when I thought one of grandkids–we were hosting a sleepover–was shaking my chair. I reached around to grab the culprit, but there was no one there. Then it happened again. Then the other adults in our
I came across one of those stunning and paradigm-shifting quotations from Luther, this one about how God–the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit–is always giving. Above all, God, in all of His persons, is always giving Himself. (more…)
In the course of a larger essay on the world’s political woes, David Brooks points out that all of the major acts of terrorism have had the effect of creating a cultural climate of anxiety, suspicion, and insecurity that he calls “small terror.” (more…)
We’ve blogged about the new technology that allows people who are color-blind to see in color for the first time. Now these special glasses are available through optometrists. After the break is an excerpt and a link to an article recounting the experiences of people
Today is Epiphany! Have a merry and happy Epiphany! It isn’t just about the wise men. It’s the beginning of a whole season in which the scheduled Bible readings on Sunday deal with “epiphanies” of who Christ is: His baptism, in which the voice from
President Obama issued a series of executive orders in an attempt to control the possession of firearms. See the provisions after the jump. (more…)
A key principle of the scientific method is that experiments must be reproducible. That is, an experiment has scientific validity only if another person tries the same experiment and gets the same result. It has been coming out that a big percentage–possibly a majority of
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