Senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul has been staging an old-fashioned filibuster, staging a marathon speech and holding the Senate floor in opposition to the renewal of the Patriot Act, which authorizes certain government surveillance of citizens. The Senate has pretty much replaced the old
More on young adults rejecting the church growth approach to worship and craving liturgy. I don’t mean to harp on this topic, so tomorrow I’ll post something that questions this new traditionalism in worship, which is not always accompanied by traditionalism in theology. (more…)
Popular author James Reston, Jr., has written a book entitled Luther’s Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege, about Luther’s time in Wartburg Castle, when he was in hiding from the Emperor’s death sentence. Here he began his translation of the Bible. It took
A meeting called to discuss motorcycle safety, held in a shopping mall restaurant in Waco, Texas, degenerated into an armed battle between biker gangs, leaving 9 dead and 170 (!) arrested. Why? Apparently it was precipitated by an argument over a parking space, but
A propaganda booklet being circulated by ISIS promises great food, stylish technology, and cosmopolitan diversity. The author, a British citizen named Abu Rumaysah al-Britani, then looks forward to the day when ISIS will takes over London, Paris, and Washington, D. C., “because not only will
Matthew Crawford, a philosopher who has found wisdom in being a motorcycle mechanic, is the author of an excellent book on vocation entitled Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. He now has another book that shows how the Enlightenment has
There are strong moral reasons why couples shouldn’t just live together without being married. There are also strong psychological reasons why this is not a good idea. (See also this.) The Washington Post‘s financial advice columnist, Michelle Singletary, points out that there are also strong
As we were taught in Biology, mammals and birds are warm-blooded; reptiles and fish are cold-blooded. But now scientists have discovered that the opah, a deep-water fish, is warm-blooded! (more…)
Robert Burns prayed for the power “To see ourselves as others see us!” (To a Louse). So I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings here. But it is surely helpful for a church trying to be contemporary to see how actual contemporaries are responding to
Just about everybody in politics is claiming to be a “populist” these days–leftwinger Elizabeth Warren, rightwinger Ted Cruz, establishment icon Hillary Clinton, the Christian right’s Mike Huckabee, Occupy Wallstreeters, Tea Partiers, and on and on. Rutgers history professor David Greenberg points out that the term
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