When we blogged about the Wittenberg Nightingale, the all-Lutheran online radio channel, the number of listeners shot up into the stratosphere. So founder Lori Lewis said that as a gesture of thanks, she would set aside a block of programming and bill it as “brought
The great figure of Advent is John the Baptist. We think of him as that harsh, say-it-like-it-is prophet who ate insects. But what he preached was repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Which he conveyed by baptism. (more…)
Conservatives are skeptical about the government and look to the private sector to solve our problems. Liberals are skeptical about the private sector and look to the government for solutions. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers says that our problem is that BOTH the public sector
This year we will have a college football championship playoff, eliminating all of that controversy over end-of-the-season ratings. So we thought. But there is still controversy about which four teams were selected to play. Earlier last week, Texas Christian University was ranked #3, going on
Reformed pastor Peter Leithhart says that Protestantism requires a high view of the sacraments. He focuses specifically on baptism and its role in a key Protestant teaching: the assurance of salvation. (more…)
Incumbent Senate Democrat Mary Landrieu lost her run-off election in Louisiana to Republican Bill Cassidy. Part of the reason is that she was abandoned by fellow Democrats, who are now doing to their party what the tea party has done to Republicans, refusing to support
Al-Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute an American journalist they held captive, so American commandos launched an attempt to rescue him. The operation failed. The captive and a South African hostage were killed. (more…)
The multi-talented Lori Lewis has launched an internet radio channel devoted to Lutheran music. That is to say, to 16th and 17th century sacred music with lots of hymns, chorales, and Bach. The channel is called Wittenberg Nightingale, after an epithet for Luther from the poet
We’ve talked a great deal about the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, at the hands of a police officer, whom a grand jury refused to indict after discovering facts not included in the earlier media reports. Now in New York City, a grand
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In the earlier days of this blog, we were renowned for the high level of discourse and the friendliness of our commenting community. We had lots of different opinions and different sorts of people participate–conservatives and liberals, Lutherans and Pentecostals, feminists and gays, Muslims and