The Indianapolis Star reports on a case of apparent demon possession and successful exorcism in Gary, Indiana. I don’t know what I think of all of this, but this case–complete with walking on a ceiling and many other seemingly supernatural manifestations–is unusually well-attested, with police
So where do we stand with Obamacare, now that HealthCare.gov is more or less working? Michael Gerson reports: The early returns are in. A large majority of the 2.2 million people who had purchased insurance on the exchanges by year-end — 65 percent to 90 percent, according
J. Gresham Machen was one of the 20th century’s leading Reformed theologians, a Princeton faculty member who battled the rise of liberal theology. Rod Rosenbladt sent me a copy of an article that Dr. Machen wrote on the “Ordination Pledge” in which he discusses his
Pornography involves watching somebody else have sex. In South Korea, there is a new fad of watching somebody else eat. It’s being called “gastronomical voyeurism.” The news story, excerpted after the jump, speculates on some reasons: More and more Koreans are living by themselves and
A Texas court ordered that life-support be removed from a woman who was considered brain-dead, in accord with her husband’s wishes. The hospital, though, had been keeping her body going because she was pregnant. So now both the mother and her child are dead. The
Tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET will be the President’s State of the Union Address. I invite you to live blog it here via the comments. (What you do is have your computer ready as you watch and listen to the speech. Make comments as the
We may have solved, with the help of James R. Rogers, our perennial question of why evangelicals tend to be more likely to embrace Calvinism than Lutheranism. But our other perennial question is why evangelicals, when they want something different–particularly, sacraments and liturgy–go the way
If there should ever be a monument to the Second Amendment, it should be erected in Northfield, Minnesota. In this little college town in 1876, Jesse James and Cole Younger, with six other members of their gang, tried to rob the First National Bank, only
James R. Rogers (a Lutheran) advances our perennial topic of why evangelicals tend to prefer Calvinism to Lutheranism in a post for First Things. He begins with some practical issues–the difficulty of “finding” Lutheranism, the relative inaccessibility of Lutheran confessional documents (the Augsburg Confession being
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A technological fix for my New Year’s blog resolution?
So, how are you doing with your New Year’s resolution to monitor the comments on your blog and establish a higher tone of discourse? That was the gist of what one of this blog’s readers put to me, making the point that the personal insults,