[Mollie Hemingway’s quotation from Luther’s “The Estate of Marriage” (1522) reminded me that I blogged on that sermon in 2007, several platforms ago. So I thought I would rerun it.] In working on an article about vocation, I was looking for the source of Luther’s
Pope Francis says that all of conflicts throughout the world constitute a Third World War. Indeed, there was a time when two individual nations would fight it out over a dispute. Now, even regional conflicts quickly become globalized. So maybe the Pope is right, that
The ancients believed that the planets and stars were on crystalline spheres, whose turning created harmonics equivalent to our musical notes. Hence, “the music of the spheres,” signifying the aesthetic order of the cosmos. We don’t have that cosmology anymore, but we do have quantum
Slate has published a column by Amanda Marcotte on “the tyranny of the home-cooked family dinner.” She cites surveys that show how hard and stressful it is for women to live up to the ideal of the whole family sitting down together for a home-cooked
The people of Scotland will vote on Thursday, September 18, on whether or not to secede from Great Britain. When we blogged about it before in 2012, the chances for a “yes” majority seemed remote, but one poll last weekend showed the secessionists winning. Though
The European Space Agency spacecraft Rosetta has rendezvoused with Comet 67P, with plans to send a smaller craft to land on it November 11. The project was launched back in 2004. The comet is about 3×5 kilometers across (1.86×3 miles). Go here for more information.
Justin Taylor posts a startling quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer from Life Together, about what a Christian “who lives beneath the cross of Jesus” knows about sin, himself, and other sinners. And how this knowledge of the human heart, as revealed by the Cross, goes deeper
I previously blogged about my contribution–a review of Huckleberry Finn–to a blog series that Justin Taylor is running on “novels every Christian should consider reading.” I urge you to read the whole series, which includes different Christians’ take on classic novels like Tom Jones, entertaining
President Obama announced that the United States would launch a “relentless” air campaign, co-ordinated with allied forces on the ground (though not including American ground troops) to “destroy” the Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL. (more…)
Brett McCracken, author of Hipster Christianity, argues that there are intrinsic contradictions inherent in the various attempts to make Christianity “cool.” See what he says after the jump, whereupon I offer some thoughts on my own on the efforts to adapt Christianity to one culture
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