Lots of people have been hailing the medical uses of marijuana, leading a number of states to legalize the drug if you have a prescription. Now Israeli researchers (Israel being the world’s leader in research into medical marijuana) has developed a strain that gives the
In an article about a prominent non-denominational pastor who has decided that he needs to go to seminary, the writer, Michelle Boorstein, discusses non-denominational churches as an example of the larger phenomenon of “the dissolution of religious structures.” Now we usually think of the decline
Though some polls showed that he would be a front-runner and though he has been acting and talking like a candidate, Mitt Romney said that he won’t be running for president in 2016. Who else should make the same decision? (more…)
Candy sales have been soaring ever since marketers started putting their wares by checkout counters. Such “impulse buying” increases the longer customers have to wait in line to get to the cash register. Now, though, self-service checkout, online retailing, and other technological developments mean that
You are all invited to the Cranach Institute virtual Super Bowl party! It will be located at this blog and it will last all weekend. Please bring your own food and beverages. The Green Bay Packers, my team, were 5 minutes away from getting to
Last year a respected research institute found that 50% of sports fans believe supernatural forces are at work in sporting events. That includes 19% who believes that God determines the outcome, 26% who pray for their team to win, and 25% who believe their team
Here is where you can comment on the Super Bowl as the game is unfolding. Comment on the plays, analyze what you see happening, complain about mistakes, talk trash, get into sports arguments, whatever you want.
A curious development in the history of the NFL championship game has been the role of commercials. Viewership is so huge for the big game that ad agencies have been going all-out to come up with the best commercials they can devise. So commercials have
Tune in tomorrow for a special edition of this blog, a rare Saturday posting! (Want to guess what it will be about?)
Yes, Nadia Bolz-Weber is on the “progressive channel” at Patheos and she is a “pastorix” (her word) in the ELCA, but she continues to defy conventional liberal theology. I came across a post in which she first discusses Moltmann’s view that the Virgin Birth of
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