As we’ve blogged about, Nadia Bolz-Weber has been getting a lot of attention as an ELCA “pastorix” who, for all of her tattoos, ministry to gays, and violation of “culture wars” stereotypes, preaches justification by grace through faith, Christ’s Atonement for sin, and the theology
Belgium has abolished capital punishment, but it has legalized euthanasia, even for small children. Now it will euthanize a sex offender who suffers from guilt for being a serial rapist and murderer. The prisoner had refused a chance at early parole, afraid that he would
It has come out how the government forced Yahoo to turn over online data to the NSA surveillance program known as PRISM. A “civil contempt” ruling would have fined the company $250,000 a day. Every week Yahoo refused to comply the fine would double. Doing
Enlisting or re-enlisting in a military service requires taking an oath, ending in the words “so help me God.” An atheist airman trying to re-enlist in the Air Force has crossed out those words in the paperwork he is supposed to sign. So the Air
Matthew Schmitz quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics, emphasizing how the theologian is forcefully pro-life, while also speaking pastorally about those who commit this sin. (more…)
After telling about some universities that are “derecognizing” Christian organizations, Joe Carter proposes a “free market solution”: He suggests that Christian students, alumni, and donors should not “hand over our cash to schools that consider our beliefs so repugnant as to not even be worthy
[Mollie Hemingway’s quotation from Luther’s “The Estate of Marriage” (1522) reminded me that I blogged on that sermon in 2007, several platforms ago. So I thought I would rerun it.] In working on an article about vocation, I was looking for the source of Luther’s
Pope Francis says that all of conflicts throughout the world constitute a Third World War. Indeed, there was a time when two individual nations would fight it out over a dispute. Now, even regional conflicts quickly become globalized. So maybe the Pope is right, that
The ancients believed that the planets and stars were on crystalline spheres, whose turning created harmonics equivalent to our musical notes. Hence, “the music of the spheres,” signifying the aesthetic order of the cosmos. We don’t have that cosmology anymore, but we do have quantum
Slate has published a column by Amanda Marcotte on “the tyranny of the home-cooked family dinner.” She cites surveys that show how hard and stressful it is for women to live up to the ideal of the whole family sitting down together for a home-cooked
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