In the context of an article criticizing President Obama, George Will says that the president continually uses “the four basic teenage tropes” that characterize the way adolescents argue. I give them after the jump, with my emphases in bold. I don’t really want to discuss
G.C. McLoughlin G.C. McLoughlin G.C. McLoughlinG. It’s still Easter, and it will be for 40 days, corresponding to the 40 days that the risen Jesus was with his disciples until His Assumption into Heaven. So we should still revel in this season, and I’m going
Have you heard about this book? The Christian Gentleman’s Smoking Companion: A Celebration of Smoking to the Glory of God. Jonathan Binnie, who told me about it, says that his brother attends a church that has a “men’s cigar outreach ministry.” It’s called “El Lector,”
. . .is soon to be China, according to scholars who project that in ten years the still-Communist country will have 160 million Protestants (the USA has 159 million) and in 15 years 247 million Christians in all, more than any other nation. (more…)
Methodist minister Morgan Guyton has written a post entitled “Six Ways that Capitalism Fails the Church.” His main point has to do not so much with free market economics as with the way the marketing and consumer mentality is distorting how churches operate. I don’t
Western states are organizing in an effort to take over all of that federal land within their borders, which often constitutes most of their territory. (See the map after the jump.) I can see why the states would have a better claim than the federal
My post about Les Miserables provoked some good discussion–including teaching me another telling internet abbreviation (“TL;DR,” meaning “Too Long; Didn’t Read”)–including this exchange: Amsdorf: I’m glad to hear you too have taken up the book. I have been reading it slowly, on and off, for
A story that you may have to be British, an Anglophile, or Canadian (or possibly Australian) to fully appreciate. There is a small but sturdy Lutheran church in Great Britain, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England (ELCE), with which the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is
I published an article in Tabletalk Magazine about the concept of “duty,” tying it via the Small Catechism to the works of vocation. (more…)
Is a law racially discriminatory if it forbids racial discrimination? The Supreme Court ruled “no,” upholding a Michigan referendum that forbids racial considerations–that is, affirmative action programs– in college admissions. (more…)
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