Rev. Joseph Abrahamson has thoroughly refuted these claims about Easter, and yet we still keep hearing them: There are three main things people attack about this Holy Day: They claim that it is pagan because the name Easter is from a pagan goddess. They claim
Sociologist George Yancey has conducted a study of people who are bigoted against Christianity. He has found that conservative Christians share at least one thing with atheists: both are hated by large numbers of people. (Half of the public hate atheists, but a third hate
Political thinkers are pondering recent claims that we are in the midst of an epic transition that will rival the industrial revolution, wondering what difference these changes will make politically. The projections deal with technology but also demographics, as whites will soon become an aged
A company named EnChroma has developed glasses that allow color blind people to see colors. The technology, developed by accident, is interesting in itself. (See this and this for details.) But what most struck me is the video showing people experiencing color for the first
For my Lenten reading, I have taken up Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer, a book that I have found to be extremely illuminating. At the beginning of Lent, I posted about what I was learning from Bayer about how we have a primal need
Some Christians have said that the way to accommodate the new pro-gay laws is to accept them, but build in religious exemptions. That is not going to be acceptable in the gay rights juggernaut. Indiana has passed a religious freedom law, allowing individuals to claim
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates are bombing Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. Different Islamic nations are also battling each other in Libya, Syria, and Iraq. Experts say this may herald an all-out Middle Eastern war. This would be an all-Islamic conflict, with Sunnis
The Library of Congress has acquired thousands of Civil War photographs and has put them online. Here is a slide show sampling. My favorites are from the Liljenquist Family collection of individual and family portraits., which the Library of Congress is making available freely, with
Rev. Adam Roe, in the series on vocation at MissionWork, discusses the concept of “sacrifice” in the Lutheran confessions. Unlike in Roman Catholicism, Holy Communion is not seen as a sacrifice, nor are pastors considered priests who offer up sacrifices. And yet Christians are called
Conservatives complain about Big Government, saying that huge, distant, super-powerful centralized government should often give way to decentralized state and local governments. But what about when local governments do what big centralized government does? That has become an issue in Texas. . . . (more…)
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