Islamic State jihadists planned to kidnap two random people off the street in Australia and then behead them, showing the video online as a way to demonstrate their worldwide reach. But Australian authorities discovered the plot, arresting 15 people in the country’s largest counterterrorism operation.
Last Sunday was Holy Cross Day, an ancient celebration that originally commemorated St. Helena (Constantine’s mother) supposedly finding the “true Cross.” You have got to see what our pastor, Rev. James Douthwaite, does with this, taking the occasion to plunge into some of the deepest
Brandon Robertson is one of the spokesmen for the “Revangelical” movement, the prefix meaning, in his words, the effort to “rethink, reform, and renew my evangelical faith.” He has posted the results of an informal survey he conducted that goes against the grain of conventional
We blogged about the atheist airman who was not allowed to re-enlist unless he could swear the military oath to protect the Constitution “so help me God.” The Air Force has changed its policy to allow that part to be left out, a move being
As we’ve blogged about, Nadia Bolz-Weber has been getting a lot of attention as an ELCA “pastorix” who, for all of her tattoos, ministry to gays, and violation of “culture wars” stereotypes, preaches justification by grace through faith, Christ’s Atonement for sin, and the theology
Belgium has abolished capital punishment, but it has legalized euthanasia, even for small children. Now it will euthanize a sex offender who suffers from guilt for being a serial rapist and murderer. The prisoner had refused a chance at early parole, afraid that he would
It has come out how the government forced Yahoo to turn over online data to the NSA surveillance program known as PRISM. A “civil contempt” ruling would have fined the company $250,000 a day. Every week Yahoo refused to comply the fine would double. Doing
Enlisting or re-enlisting in a military service requires taking an oath, ending in the words “so help me God.” An atheist airman trying to re-enlist in the Air Force has crossed out those words in the paperwork he is supposed to sign. So the Air
Matthew Schmitz quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics, emphasizing how the theologian is forcefully pro-life, while also speaking pastorally about those who commit this sin. (more…)
After telling about some universities that are “derecognizing” Christian organizations, Joe Carter proposes a “free market solution”: He suggests that Christian students, alumni, and donors should not “hand over our cash to schools that consider our beliefs so repugnant as to not even be worthy
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