ISIS has put out an e-book detailing its plans to sack Rome. In doing so, it explains how it will ally with leftists. It also gives the ISIS geo-political analysis, including the role of American weakness in its rise, its plans to temporarily take advantage
Dr. Benjamin Mayes is working with Concordia Publishing House on the new translations of Luther’s Works. He was researching what Luther wrote about where Christians can find comfort. Dr. Mayes writes, “Baptism is one of the comforting things, alongside various Bible passages, that console us
As of 12:01 a.m. today, the possession of marijuana is legal in our nation’s capital. But it’s still illegal to sell it. So you can have it, but you can’t buy it. The tangled new law, with its bureaucratic twists and turns, illustrates the dilemma
New York City police arrested three men in connection with a plot to join ISIS and commit acts of terrorism in the United States, including assassinating the president. (more…)
More from Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer. (For earlier posts on the subject, see this and this.) When we no longer have to justify ourselves, observes Bayer, but know the “passive righteousness” of faith that comes from being justified by Christ, we are reconciled
Wesleyan University in Connecticut has a residence hall devoted to a whole alphabet of sexual diversity: Open House is a safe space for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Flexual, Asexual, Genderfuck, Polyamourous, Bondage/Disciple, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM communities and for people of sexually or
The Assyrian Church, which is neither Catholic nor Eastern Orthodox, traces its history to the first century, all the way to the Apostles Thomas, Thaddeus, and Bartholomew. Now, these Syrian Christians, as in those early days, are experiencing brutal persecution and martyrdom. ISIS has rounded
More (see my last post on the subject) from Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer. . . Not only are we always judging, condemning/justifying ourselves and each other, we also judge, condemn/justify God. Bayer has some interesting reflections on “theodicy,” the question of how or
I really enjoy my Kindle. But when it comes to reading scholarly works, I need to flip back and forth, mark pages, study illustrations, and generally read more carefully. I kind of need hard-copy printed books to do that. Now it turns out that the
The movie The Imitation Game focused on how mathematician Alan Turing broke the German “Enigma” code, a major contribution to the Allied victory in World War II. Those interested in artificial intelligence talk about the “Turing test,” the goal of making it impossible to tell
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