There have been several developments in the on going and possibly never ending war on terrorism: U.S. Special forces made an incursion into Syria and killed an important ISIS leader. The surviving Boston Marathon bomber was sentenced to death. Famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has
The headlines about the Pew Report, including at this blog, say that Christianity is declining in America. But if you look closer, says Christianity Today’s Ed Stetzer, the data shows that the decline is in “nominal Christians”–those in name only–who are becoming open about their
More and more progressives are openly calling for the end of democracy and for replacing it with an admittedly authoritarian regime that would give power to experts. (more…)
As Democrats make a political point of rejecting the free trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership–to the point of defying the Democratic President–Charles Lane clears up the disinformation being spread about the treaty. He says that, contrary to the rhetoric, it won’t lose American
Today is Ascension Day, a major festival of the church year–on a par with Christmas and Easter–but it doesn’t get much attention these days. Prof. Joel Biermann of Concordia Seminary gives us “seven reasons to rejoice on Ascension Day.” (more…)
The Pew Research Center has released a new study of American religion. In 2007, the date of its previous research, the percentage of Christians was 78%. By 2014, the percentage dropped to 70%. The percentage of those with no religious affiliation has shot up
A California group has announced that it intends to become an “AARP for kids.” I don’t think that means getting children discounts at Denny’s. The goal will be to lobby for children’s rights. I don’t know the ideology of this particular organization. Will they lobby
A major priority for President Obama is the passage of the Pacific trade accord, a free trade bill that would open up markets in Asia. But a proposal to fast-track the treaty–allowing a single up-or-down vote, rather than risking death by a thousand amendments–was defeated
More from David Brooks, two interviews in which he talks about what he learned from St. Augustine, “the smartest human being I’ve ever encountered in any form.” Specifically, that would his concept of sin as disordered love and the Christian concept of grace. St. Augustine
Are religious conservatives finished as a political and cultural force? Not at all, argues David French, responding to someone who claims that Mike Huckabee’s inevitable defeat will put the nails in the coffin of the Christian right. French says that Christian conservatives don’t have to
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