Another family innovation: Marrying yourself. (more…)
Another family innovation: Marrying yourself. (more…)
My longtime friend, the Rev. Harold Senkbeil, has an article in the latest Concordia Journal entitled “Engaging the Culture Faithfully.” It is a scathing critique of how the Church as a whole has been accommodating the culture instead of truly engaging it. At the same
President Obama has issued an executive order protecting some 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. On what authority, you may ask? He is invoking the principle of “prosecutor discretion,” under which a law enforcement officer may choose, for example, which speeders to chase down. So
Some ministers are signing a “marriage pledge” promising not to sign state marriage licenses as a protest against legalized gay marriage. This strikes me as a terrible, if well-intentioned, idea. Doesn’t this mean that the marriages performed by these pastors won’t be legally recognized, unless
Last Sunday our pastor preached on the dangers of falling into either of the two ditches along the side of the road: legalism and antinomianism. Both, he said, leave out Jesus. He went on to explore what that means with a reading of the parable
A useful concept and a clarifying name from Pope Francis: People worry about the state of the natural environment, he observed. But they also need to worry about the social environment. Family breakdown, rampant immorality, and materialistic hedonism damage what he calls the “human ecology.”
An executive with Uber, the app-based cab service, said how he wants to spend $1 million to dig up dirt on its critics, wanting to get at “your personal lives, your families.” This from the same company that blogged about the data it has on
A major element in today’s jihadist movement is the Islamic doctrine of the End Times, according to Dr. Timothy R. Furnish in a lecture at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. From an account of the lecture: To establish a world ruled by Islamic law, Jesus
According to Dana Milbank, a tea party of the left is emerging, with liberal purists turning against Democrats in Name Only. (more…)
Guillaume Bignon tells how he was converted from atheism to Christianity, going on to become a theologian. It’s a telling story. (more…)
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