Nathan Busenitz gives a vivid account of the martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer, who was greatly influenced by Luther and who is the literary genius who gave us the Book of Common Prayer, the English rendition of the liturgy that have shaped the language of Lutheran
A recent Muslim convert, angry because he had been fired, beheaded a 54-year-old woman and attacked another woman until a manager with a gun shot him (though not fatally). The killer, Alton Nolen, had jihadist slogans and ISIL beheading videos on his FaceBook page. The
The climax of the Washington Nationals’ league-leading season came Sunday on the last game of the regular schedule when Jordan Zimmermann threw a no-hitter against the Miami Marlins. The Nationals’ hand for the playoffs includes five aces in the starting rotation. And yet, the playoffs
The Pope made an interesting comment to visiting Jewish leaders. He compared the atrocities being committed against Christians in parts of the Middle East and the world’s overall silence on the subject to the way Jews were treated in the run-up to World War II.
Ruth Marcus cites a “thought experiment” put forward in a new book: Imagine that all women in the United States, upon becoming sexually active, were automatically fitted with an intrauterine device or other form of long-acting birth control. (more…)
For the first time since records were kept, a majority of American adults are single. (more…)
More and more Christians are discovering, or re-discovering, the doctrine of vocation, and the richness of that teaching means that vocation can illuminate countless dimensions of life. Now the noted Christian philosopher John Stackhouse has written a book entitled Need to Know: Vocation as the
That would be Ebola, according to the director of the World Health Organization, a plague that is raging out of control, with projections that it will kill 1.4 million people by January. Right now, the disease is confined to Africa, but surely it won’t stay
The pattern for enlisting in the military is to sign up in your 20’s, then, if you want to make a career of it, keep rising in the ranks until you retire after 20 or 30 years. The military only hires people, as it were,
There are more Biblical sites in Iraq than in any other nation other than Israel: Eden (maybe), the Tigris & Euphrates rivers, Abraham’s home town of Ur, the city that Jonah evangelized Ninevah, Babylon, the place of the Hebrews’ exile. And there have been Christians
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