ISIS has reportedly slaughtered 1700 captives in Iraq, using beheadings and even crucifixions. Experts say the goal is to ramp up the “shock value” of jihadist terrorism. (more…)
ISIS has reportedly slaughtered 1700 captives in Iraq, using beheadings and even crucifixions. Experts say the goal is to ramp up the “shock value” of jihadist terrorism. (more…)
Southern Baptists are concerned that the number of baptisms is way down. (And yet many of their churches are growing. Is it that converts, new members, and the Millennial generation are unwilling today to be baptized?) But one demographic of Baptists is getting baptized in
For the first time, I actually followed the NBA this season. That was due to my Oklahoma nationalism–that being where I grew up–and getting hooked on the Oklahoma City Thunder, with MVP Kevin Durant and company. I had always thought the playoffs, which involve a
President Obama is sending 275 back to Iraq to protect the embassy and American personnel from ISIS insurgents. (more…)
Yesterday was Trinity Sunday. At our church, we said the Athanasian Creed and a little girl was baptized in that august Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, her name joined to His. What a glorious God we have! Those of you who celebrated
David Brat, the Virginia economics professor who overthrew House Majority leader Eric Cantor in the Republican congressional primary, calls himself a “Calvinist Catholic libertarian.” Let’s hope Pope Francis doesn’t burn him at the stake! But what could that possibly mean? Does that make him, in
A new Pew study of the political polarization in this country has found some distinct cultural differences between liberals and conservatives. Read about it after the jump, where I also offer some observations and propose something for us to discuss. (more…)
The U.S. trained and equipped Iraqi army is much bigger and better armed than the ISIS insurgents, but in combat they have been running away in droves. So the chief Shi’ite cleric has called for volunteers and a reconstituting of the militias to fight back
Denmark passed a law requiring all churches to perform same-sex weddings. Not just the state Lutheran church, all churches. The news story on the subject has another interesting detail: The government “church minister” who supervises the state church and who pushed the law against Christian
The media reported that a supercomputer passed the Turing Test, a measure of artificial intelligence in which a computer can pass as a human being. But it turns out that this is just one of the many examples tracked on this blog (as some of
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