Archaeologists have made an astounding discovery: the tomb of a warrior at Pylos from 1,500 B.C., before the Homeric era, filled with gold, jewels, and priceless artifacts. (more…)
Archaeologists have made an astounding discovery: the tomb of a warrior at Pylos from 1,500 B.C., before the Homeric era, filled with gold, jewels, and priceless artifacts. (more…)
The Wall Street Journal has published an excellent account by Joe Loconte on Luther, the Reformation, and its precursors. He ends up crediting Luther, who insisted that faith is not something that can be coerced, for the Western concept of religious freedom. He then wonders
It seems that before gay marriage was legal, in order to form a family union, an older homosexual man would sometimes adopt his young lover. Now a father is trying to get a court to dissolve the adoption so that he can marry his son.
Remember watching “Schoolhouse Rock,” in which you were taught how a “Bill” becomes a “Law,” going through committees and all those other legislative processes until it gets passed and signed? That’s called “regular order,” and it hasn’t been used in the House of Representatives for
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has put together a web site in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, which will take place in 2017. (So this year it’s the 498th anniversary.) The site includes lots of resources, including videos. It also announces a
I think a major problem today–one that looms behind other problems, such as sexual immorality and identity confusions–is that people are often dissociated from their bodies. We see this in the gender dysphoria that gives us transgenderism, the sense that some people have that they
The Kansas City Royals won the world series against the New York Mets in a series of epic comebacks. They were behind in each of the games! In game #4, they were down to their last four outs, but ended up winning the game. In
The body consists of innumerable cells. Each of these has its own distinct life–its own systems of nutrition, reproduction, and protection–and yet these cells group together to form highly specialized organs that, in turn, make up a single body. The whole scheme, with its incredibly
The Chinese Communist party announced that it is lifting its one-child policy, which led to the forced abortion of millions of children. Not that the party is becoming pro-life: The policy led to a demographic mess, with an imbalance of more men than women (girls
President Obama has authorized American troops to go to Syria to help with the fight against ISIS. But there will only be 50 of them. The Special Forces unit will help with the Kurdish troops already there. So we have a new military commitment to
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