At a baptism, the baptized person is given a name. That’s not all that happens, but that’s what a lot of people associate with the rite. So in the Church of England, some transgendered individuals have asked to be re-baptized, so as to have the
At a baptism, the baptized person is given a name. That’s not all that happens, but that’s what a lot of people associate with the rite. So in the Church of England, some transgendered individuals have asked to be re-baptized, so as to have the
A motorcycle gang involved with the Waco shootout, at which 9 bikers were killed and 179 arrested, is calling for members to retaliate against police officers and their families (!). Prediction: Law and order is going to come back as a political issue, as riots,
Yesterday was Pentecost, commemorating the gift of the Holy Spirit. I think part of the religious problem today is that when people imagine God, they picture the Deist god, an entity above and beyond this world, who looks down on it all from afar. But
MEMORIAL DAY ORDER* Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868. GENERAL ORDERS No. 11 I. The 30th day of May, 1868 is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense
Many of us will observe Memorial Day by putting flowers on the graves of loved ones. This custom seems almost universal. In fact, archaeologists studying the burial site of a stone-age woman have found that the cave dwellers put flowers on her grave. It’s a
At least 1, 340,000 Americans have died in our nation’s wars, from the Revolution through Afghanistan. Michael Avramovich breaks down that number in a touching Memorial Day tribute. (more…)
We blogged about Rachel Held Evans, her point that Millennials can’t stand the church growth efforts to reach them and how the Sacraments are what make the church relevant. David French observes that what she is really calling for are churches that are “traditionally progressive,”
The Barna group has data about which American cities are the most “unchurched,” breaking that category down further into “churchless” (people never having been involved in a church) and “dechurched” (people who used to be involved in a church but aren’t now). English teacher that
In the course of a column on a recent Medicare bill, Michael Gerson observes that in the not-too-distant-past there were liberal Republicans (in the northeast) and conservative Democrats (in the past). Back then, lawmakers could form coalitions with kindred spirits across the aisle to pass
Christians often worry about their children falling away from the church. Atheists have the same problem. According to the Pew research, half of the children raised by atheists end up as believers. A column on this phenomenon, excerpted and linked after the jump, includes another
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