The Executive branch is supposed to conduct the nation’s foreign policy. But the congressional Republican leadership i invited Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress. President Obama was not so much as informed, so he refused to meet the leader
A major secular educator, David Coleman, spent some time at Wheaton College, which taught him that Christian colleges have an important part to play in American higher education. Michael Gerson quotes him, after the jump. (more…)
You know those 76 red volumes of the collected works of Luther in English? Well, there are a lot more writings by the Reformer that have not been translated into English. Concordia Publishing House is adding more translations to the series, including this Volume 77
The Oneida tribe has been leading the charge against the Washington Redskins’ name. But now that tribe is itself caught in a controversy over its plans to open a casino in Chittenango, N.Y. That was the home of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful
We’ve blogged about the Maryland parents who let their 10 year-old son and 6-year-old daughter walk home from a park by themselves, whereupon they were charged with child neglect. (See this and this.) Well, the Child Protective Services ruled against them, saying that they were
Yet more weekend snow storms. . . .Local news where we are, on the road for our “Spring Break” (!), showed lots of churches cancelling services. I don’t remember that happening until a few years ago. All kinds of churches were scrolling the news on
Three thousand conservative activists held a convention known as CPAC and were wooed by prospective Republican presidential candidates. In the final straw poll, Rand Paul won, for the third year in a row, with Wisconsin governor Scott Walker coming in a close second. Jeb Bush
Scientists have discovered why we, as well as all mammals, have eyelashes. (more…)
I’ve been doing a series of posts about what I am getting from a book I am reading: Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer. (For earlier posts on the subject, see this and this. and this.) He makes the point that the term “justification” is
The FCC voted to regulate the internet so that service providers cannot charge different kinds of users or content providers (e.g., streaming a Netflix movie) more than any others. Some are hailing this ruling as “net neutrality,” making it possible for the internet to remain
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