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
The United States no longer has the world’s largest economy. China just passed us. Ever since Ulysses S. Grant was president, the American economy has been number one. Now we are number two. (more…)
Sony Pictures will soon release a comedy about two reporters who are enlisted to assassinate North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. The movie, entitled The Interview, combines fiction with non-fiction, bringing the venerated “dear leader” of the notoriously touchy Communist country into a silly comedy
I have published a new book, one that I collaborated on with Matt Ristuccia, an evangelical pastor in Princeton. It’s called Imagination Redeemed: Glorifying God with a Neglected Part of Your Mind. The imagination often gets mystified these days with its association with the arts
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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