Congress has refused to pass legislation restricting carbon emissions, so President Obama is doing it on his own. He has decreed what is being called a “war on coal”: The Obama administration took aim at the coal industry on Monday by mandating a 30 percent
More from my interview with Mathew Block, who asks about the connection between the imagination and the fine arts. (more…)
United Methodists are considering whether or not to have an amicable split, so as to accommodate both sides of the moral debates that the denomination is struggling with. As I know from personal and family experience, Methodists have always had a strong emphasis on morality.
When we think of the mind, we tend to think of the intellect, our ability to reason and understand. But the mind has many other facets: We experience our emotions in our minds. Another mental faculty is the will. There has been quite a lot
The Obama administration negotiated the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held captive in Afghanistan for nearly five years, in exchange for five senior Taliban leaders being held in Guantanamo. He was reportedly the last POW being held. The problem is, the
This weekend there were reports that Sudan would release the woman who was condemned to be hanged because she would not repudiate her Christianity. But now Sudan is denying those reports, saying that only a court ruling could release her. The woman, Mariam Yahya Ibrahim,
Dale M. Coulter discusses H. Richard Niebuhr’s The Kingdom of God in America and the issue he raised of “constructive Protestantism.” For Niebuhr, the essence of Protestantism is the unmediated relationship between the individual and God’s Word. The issue then becomes how Protestantism can create
The mystery surrounding the Malaysian airliner that seemingly disappeared into thin air seemed to have been solved when searchers announced that they had detected pings from the airplane’s black box in the Indian Ocean. But now, after a large-scale search of the area, searchers are
An investigation into the VA hospital scandal says it is worse and more pervasive than it first appeared: Delaying medical care to veterans and manipulating records to hide those delays is “systemic throughout” the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, the VA’s Office of Inspector
Happy Ascension Day! Today we celebrate that Jesus, in the words of the Apostle’s Creed, “ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.” It’s interesting how some Christians use this teaching to deny that the Body of Christ can
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