We felt good that we killed Osama bin Laden and seemed to have defeated al-Qaeda. But they were nothing compared to the resurgent jihadist army of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS, most recently calling themselves ISIL, for “Islamic State of Iraq and the
Conde Nast Traveler has conducted a survey to find the friendliest and the unfriendliest cities in the world and in the United States. See the lists after the jump. Sound about right? What does this tell us about the various cultures represented? (more…)
Last Sunday, the sermon was about that puzzling passage in which Jesus seems at first to reject the Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:21-28). Pastor Douthwaite solved that puzzle in a definitive way in a sermon that was incredibly profound and helpful. (more…)
We’ve blogged about the militarization of the police (here and here), but what about the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri? Some say the 18-year-old was just minding his own business walking down the street when the police officer killed
Douglas Wilson, who is associated with the “Federal Vision” movement, weighs in on the Crypto-Lutheran controversy within Calvinism. Read his whole post, but I give an excerpt after the jump. (more…)
Why would police officers, as in those in Ferguson, Missouri, wear green camoflage jungle fatigues? If it’s necessary to hide from urban bad guys, they should wear black, grey, and dirty white camoflage so as to blend in with asphalt, concrete, and dilapidated houses. (Like
Feminists make a distinction between “sex,” which has to do with biology, and “gender,” which has to do with culture; thus, gender roles are changeable and interchangeable with those of men, having nothing to do with an individual’s sex. But now sex is held to
A district attorney who was in charge of the public integrity unit (!) was convicted of drunk driving. So Texas governor Rick Perry called on her to resign. If she didn’t resign, he said, he would veto the funding for her office. (Which he did.)
Back in the 19th century, Lutherans went through a “crypto-Calvinist” controversy. But today, Calvinists are undergoing a “crypto-Lutheran” controversy. It seems a number of Reformed pastors are realizing that the Bible teaches a higher doctrine of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper than is common among
My native Oklahoma is a conservative state, and yet the city manager of Oklahoma City has allowed renting out part of the Civic Center for a Satanic Black Mass. Unlike the kerfluffle at Harvard (see here and here), the group putting on this event has
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