Douglas Wilson, who is associated with the “Federal Vision” movement, weighs in on the Crypto-Lutheran controversy within Calvinism. Read his whole post, but I give an excerpt after the jump. (more…)
Douglas Wilson, who is associated with the “Federal Vision” movement, weighs in on the Crypto-Lutheran controversy within Calvinism. Read his whole post, but I give an excerpt after the jump. (more…)
Why would police officers, as in those in Ferguson, Missouri, wear green camoflage jungle fatigues? If it’s necessary to hide from urban bad guys, they should wear black, grey, and dirty white camoflage so as to blend in with asphalt, concrete, and dilapidated houses. (Like
Feminists make a distinction between “sex,” which has to do with biology, and “gender,” which has to do with culture; thus, gender roles are changeable and interchangeable with those of men, having nothing to do with an individual’s sex. But now sex is held to
A district attorney who was in charge of the public integrity unit (!) was convicted of drunk driving. So Texas governor Rick Perry called on her to resign. If she didn’t resign, he said, he would veto the funding for her office. (Which he did.)
Back in the 19th century, Lutherans went through a “crypto-Calvinist” controversy. But today, Calvinists are undergoing a “crypto-Lutheran” controversy. It seems a number of Reformed pastors are realizing that the Bible teaches a higher doctrine of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper than is common among
My native Oklahoma is a conservative state, and yet the city manager of Oklahoma City has allowed renting out part of the Civic Center for a Satanic Black Mass. Unlike the kerfluffle at Harvard (see here and here), the group putting on this event has
I just got back from St. Louis, staying just a few blocks from the riots in Ferguson over the police shooting an unarmed teenager. I didn’t see anything and I don’t want to address the incident, as such. But the Cato Institute’s Walter Olson raises
The Prime Minister of Hungary has said what many people around the world have been thinking: That freedom and democracy are obsolete. With today’s complex economic and social problems, the democratic process is always checking and balancing itself, making it just too slow and polarizing,
Another example of sacrificing yourself for your neighbor: When Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Harris and Petty Officer 1st Class James Reyher descended to the murky depths of a pond at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., last year, virtually everything went wrong. Their equipment didn’t
If you are worried that the U.S. is reigniting the war in Iraq, don’t be. Despite the atrocities being committed by ISIS/The Islamic State, our airstrikes are designed simply to protect Americans in threatened cities and to protect those Yazidis besieged on that mountain (that
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