In church last Sunday, Pastor Douthwaite’s sermon dealt with the question St. Paul raises, Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? (Romans 6:12-23). In doing so, he explored the paradox that much of what the world calls freedom, the
It’s often said that 50% of marriages end in divorce. A new book says that the real number is between 20% and 25%. For churchgoers, the rate is somewhere in the single digits or teens. The author of The Good News about Marriage, Shaunti Feldhahn,
The investigation into allegations that the IRS illegally targeted conservative political groups subpoenaed e-mails from key officials. Now the IRS is saying those e-mails are gone. And that the back-up tapes have been erased. And that the key hard-drive has unaccountably been destroyed. Also the
Meriam Ibrahim, whom a judge released after overruling her death sentence for being a Christian, was arrested again as she tried to leave Sudan. (more…)
Russell Moore thinks the persecution of Christians around the world might bring American Christianity back to life. Tagline to his post: “Christianity in this country is big, powerful, and familiar. We need it to become strange again.” (more…)
In what could be yet another attempt to secularize religious groups that work with the government, the Obama administration is getting lots of pressure to require that religious organizations that take federal funds not be allowed to discriminate according to religion when it comes to
Law Professor Jonathan Turley discusses how the Patent and Trademark office rescinded the trademark for the Washington Redskins on the grounds that the name disparages Native Americans. This is one example, he says, of a larger trend of federal agencies that originally had a narrow
A Sudanese court has released Meriam Ibrahim, who had been sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her Christian faith! (HT: Paul McCain) (more…)
Calvinists sum up their theology, as well as their Dutch connections, with the acronym TULIP. That stands for Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, and Perseverance of the saints. Southern Baptists are currently in the midst of a controversy between their Calvinist members
A Kaiser study has found that 57% of the 8 million who have signed up for Obamacare were previously uninsured. Supporters of the Affordable Care Act are hyping that number, since other studies found that only 26% to one-third of the enrollees had been uninsured.
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