I’ve got to say, I’m excited that the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma, one of my alma maters, is in the college football playoffs tonight. I had given up on them after they lost to Texas, but here they are, playing the undefeated Clemson
I’ve got to say, I’m excited that the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma, one of my alma maters, is in the college football playoffs tonight. I had given up on them after they lost to Texas, but here they are, playing the undefeated Clemson
So what were the biggest stories or most important developments in confessional Lutheranism for 2015? I have come up with 6, which I give after the jump. We really need 10. Can we come up with 4 more? (more…)
An article on the real-life doctor featured in the movie Concussion says quite a bit about the Nigerian Christian’s understanding of “calling”; that is, vocation. (Did any of this come out in the movie?) (more…)
Rich Lowry has a great column on Donald Trump’s disregard for the Constitution. Also how he is like Obama in being willing to use “executive” power in defiance of Constitutional limits. There was a time, Lowry writes, when conservatives and tea party activists were all
Among the things that didn’t work yesterday and this morning is the comment system. But World Table has fixed the problem and is taking measures to prevent it from happening again. So, sorry.
It’s been a rough year. Bloomberg’s Lu Wang, referring specifically to economics and investing, has called 2015 The Year Nothing Worked. Terrorism is back in force, with ISIS giving us nearly daily examples of unsettling, disillusioning cruelty. That’s hard for humanists, optimists, and progressives to
Donald Trump is calling himself an “evangelical.” Christian columnist Michael Gerson discusses that self-identification, in the course of which he tells a great anecdote relating to (a misunderstanding of) vocation. (more…)
As socialism comes back in vogue in the United States, voters have overwhelmingly repudiated it in Venezuela. (more…)
The last week of the year is a time to look back upon the previous year and forward to the year ahead. We’ll be doing some of that here, culminating in New Year’s Eve, for our looks back, followed by New Year’s Day when we
Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed for plotting against Hitler, is in vogue today. Much of what people are so excited about in his writings is simply Lutheran spirituality. Michael Gerson writes a fine column about Bonhoeffer’s reflections from a Nazi prison on Christmas.
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