We blogged about the Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the LCMS. President Harrison has now posted an excerpt from the Statement of Biblical and Confessional Principles, passed by convention in 1973, in response to the church schism over the inerrancy of Scripture. But
You know how a dog will get down on his paws with his rear in the air, especially when meeting another dog? That’s called a “play bow” and means that he wants to play. He will also do it if he bites the dog and
More details about the Sudanese woman we blogged about who was sentenced to hang because she would not renounce her faith is married to an American. Her father was a Muslim, so her conversion constitutes apostasy. Also, marrying a Christian constitutes adultery, for which she
Thanks to Darren Jones for pointing me to this post on how the Early Church linked the pulpit to Christ’s empty tomb. (more…)
The head of Canada’s Liberal Party has decreed that all new candidates running for parliament in his party–or is it running for any office? that part isn’t clear to me–must be pro-abortion. The socialist New Democratic party has a similar policy. The Conservatives will allow
Thanks to Todd, who, in a comment critiquing the Freakonomics praise of the McDonald’s double cheeseburger as the world’s greatest food source, found an even better alternative. (more…)
The Pope called on the United Nations to mobilize governments to help the poor through the redistribution of wealth. This suggests a conundrum: Catholic conservatives are the most likely to believe in papal authority, and yet what happens when the papal authority teaches against conservative
Journalist Michael J. Totten visits Havana to see how things are going in still-Communist Cuba: In the United States, we have a minimum wage; Cuba has a maximum wage—$20 a month for almost every job in the country. (Professionals such as doctors and lawyers can
Another Obamacare fiasco: The government may be paying incorrect subsidies to more than 1 million Americans for their health plans in the new federal insurance marketplace and has been unable so far to fix the errors, according to internal documents and three people familiar with
Globally, we are back to the early Church. A court in Sudan has sentenced a pregnant woman to death by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Twenty-seven-year-old Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, who is already the mother of a 20-month-old son, was convicted of apostasy
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