The United States passed Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest oil producer. (Also the world’s largest natural gas producer.) This is due to new technologies, such as shale extraction and fracking (which, however, has been linked to the epidemic of earthquakes in
Scientists played a recording of a chomping caterpillar to some plants, whereupon they produced an anti-caterpillar toxin to protect themselves. Read about the study and its implications after the jump. (more…)
Check out this new website, which, in turn is a forum for a new ministry and resource group whose goal is nothing less than “igniting a second Reformation.” It’s all about Lutheran apologetics–defending Christianity and specifically defending the teachings of the Lutheran Confessions. Not just
Human beings are innately religious, so when they reject traditional religions they replace them with new ones. Often, they project their religious sensibilities onto other areas of life, such as politics or psychology or medicine, turning them into means of salvation or apocalypse. Today, many
A study of the effects of psychedelic mushrooms is being hailed as revealing positive benefits. What interests me is what the scientists and the media consider to be beneficial. The active ingredient in the mushrooms makes people more emotional, puts them in a continual dream-like
The United States of America is 238 years old today. And, arguably, feeling its age. The country is polarized, but nearly every faction (though for different reasons) distrusts the government. Nearly every faction also (for different reasons) criticizes the culture. The patriotic legends of our
Peter Wehner shares a letter written by his wife’s uncle, Frank Keaton, shortly before landing on Omaha Beach. It makes very good reading for Independence Day. (more…)
Last Sunday was the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul, two different and yet unified confessors of the Christian faith. Also on that day, one of my former students joined our church by adult confirmation, a rite that includes the vow to suffer all,
The Patheos faith & work channel’s blog Mission:Work gave a nice shout-out to us here at the Cranach blog. That site also has a poignant post from a man who left the ministry but all he could find was a factory job. He found that
The Lutheran pastor, Christian Führer, whose prayer meetings became a catalyst for the protests that overthrew Communism in East Germany died Monday at age 71. I was struck by this quotation from him: “It is not the throne and the altar, but the street and
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