October 2, 2014

My daughter has published a brilliant article in the Federalist!  I am so proud.  From Mary Moerbe, NPR Forced Me To Have The Talk With My Six-Year-Old: It crept up on me, but it was suddenly time to have the talk. I switched off the

October 2, 2014

Foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius draws attention to a book published in 2004 that reads like a playbook of radical jihadists.  The Management of Savagery by Abu Bakr Naji calls for a strategy of drawing America into paralyzing wars and using shocking violence as a

October 1, 2014

We believe in freedom of religion, something that is becoming more and more important to Christians in light of the possibility of official suppression.  Along with that comes the rights of non-Christian religions.  Public governmental meetings are allowed to open with prayer, but that prayer

October 1, 2014

The German Ethics Council, an official government agency, is recommending that the law against incest between adult brothers and sisters be repealed.  Furthermore, the ruling defined “sexual self-determination” as a “fundamental right.”  See the reasoning after the jump. (more…)

October 1, 2014

A man in Dallas has  the Ebola virus, the first diagnosed case in the United States.  Do you think this country could handle a plague? (more…)

September 30, 2014

The ecumenical organization of liberal mainline Protestants (plus the Orthodox, which I never understood) known as the National Council of Churches used to be enormously influential.  But now it has dwindled to insignificance.  Jacob Lupner explains what happened and how the NCC is trying to

September 30, 2014

You’ve probably heard about the man who jumped the fence around the White House, ran up to the building, and actually opened the unlocked, unguarded door and went inside.  Well, now it turns out that it was worse than that.  He ran all through the

September 30, 2014

A senior Environmental Protection Agency official has been caught spending as much as six hours a day watching pornography on government computers.  This has sparked a bill in Congress that would forbid that sort of thing–which is also hurting productivity in private companies–in government agencies.

September 29, 2014

Nathan Busenitz gives a vivid account of the martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer, who was greatly influenced by Luther and who is the literary genius who gave us the Book of Common Prayer, the English rendition of the liturgy that have shaped the language of Lutheran

September 29, 2014

A recent Muslim convert, angry because he had been fired, beheaded a 54-year-old woman and attacked another woman until a manager with a gun shot him (though not fatally).  The killer, Alton Nolen, had jihadist slogans and ISIL beheading videos on his FaceBook page.  The


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