What is “the cheapest, most nutritious and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history”? (more…)
What is “the cheapest, most nutritious and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history”? (more…)
My friend Ben Sasse whom I’ve blogged about, won the Republican primary race for Senate in Nebraska. Observers are saying he will be a shoo-in for election. Pundits are calling this a “Tea Party” victory, but Ben is nothing like the angry-rabble of the stereotype.
According to Roman Catholicism, you can receive “spiritual communion” even when you don’t take actual, physical communion. That is, if you desire to receive the sacrament, that is almost as good as actually receiving it. I learned this seeming bit of Gnosticism from a post
The highest court of the European Union has ruled that Google and other search engines must allow individuals to request that links about them that appear in searches be deleted. (more…)
Conservatives tend to support the free market. But the free market doesn’t necessarily support conservatism. Companies have to make money, so business interests are opposing sanctions against Russia and treading lightly in other countries when it comes to promoting democracy and liberty. So says liberal
Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, posted a passage from the Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod (1932) regarding “Open Questions.” It makes the wise point that Scripture does not clearly answer all theological questions, and so
The public is rightly horrified by the kidnapping of some 276 Nigerian high school girls by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, which has announced its plans to sell them as sex slaves. Missing from many of the news stories is that most of the
Catholics at Harvard have come out with a good statement on the Black Mass that had been scheduled for last night but, apparently due to the public outcry, was cancelled. The op-ed piece in the Crimson, the university’s student newspaper, gives details about how the
Our daughter Mary sent her mother this touching, sentimental musical tribute. I would like to share it with all of you as a belated Mother’s Day testimonial. (more…)
J. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma Magazine, takes some of his fellow Pentecostalists to task, urging that they drop six specific teachings and practices. What particularly interests me here is what he says about some Pentecostal pastors. They reason that they have been “anointed” by