Jim Webb has announced that he is running for the Democratic nomination for president, the fourth candidate challenging Hillary Clinton. Webb may be one of the most interesting and complex candidates in the race: Secretary of the Navy for Ronald Reagan, former Senator from Virginia,
Conservative churches are troubled with the gay marriage decision and feel threatened lest the government punish them for teaching that homosexuality is sinful. But liberal churches are celebrating the ruling and will have no problem with discrimination statutes. If conservative congregations lose their tax exempt
Belgium, having legalized euthanasia, keeps extending it to more and more people: to terminally ill children too young to request it; and now to physically healthy folks who suffer from depression. Doctors have recently approved euthanasia for a healthy 24-year-old woman who has been struggling
The world’s attention as been on Greece, as Europe hopes its collapsing economy and its rejection of austerity measures will not pull down the rest of the Eurozone. But what happened to Greece is also happening to the American territory of Puerto Rico, whose imminent
The New York Times reports that some gays are worrying that legalized marriage and their new social acceptance will mean a loss for gay identity and gay culture. Some telling quotes in the article: “The thing I miss is the specialness of being gay.” “There
Some words are taboo, so that when they are used they constitute the “bad language” of socially inappropriate “swearing.” Those taboo words used to consist of the irreverent use of religious language. Then words about sex and “bodily functions” became taboo swear words. Now, profanity
A pioneer in the rediscovery of classical education died last week. Marva Collins was an inner-city school teacher who rebelled against the failures of the educational establishment by teaching her students Shakespeare, Socrates, and other challenging–but inspiring–subjects. The obituary excerpted after the jump is illuminating
New Jersey governor Chris Christie announced that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination. He makes #14. Are any of you for him? If so, state the case for why he would be a good nominee and a good president. (more…)
LCMS president Matthew Harrison has issued a response to the Supreme Court marriage ruling. It’s a strong statement, but what’s most striking and surprising, coming from a Lutheran with a Two Kingdoms theology, is his quotation of the anti-Nazi theologian Hermann Sasse on signs that
As the Baby Boomers move into old age, a new problem is emerging. Many of them chose not to have children. Now large percentages of the elderly will have no children or other family members to care for them. As it is, 60% of the
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