Thanks to Colin Cutler for alerting me to this Christian defense of Halloween, including its scary parts. The author is Roman Catholic, so I’m not sure I can untangle what she’s doing with the Reformation Day reference! But still, does she make a good point?
Back in the 1990s, I was asked to be on the council of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, an organization dedicated to applying the solas of the Reformation to contemporary Christianity. Organizations change, and I’m not a part of it anymore. But I was recently
Millions of Americans already have individual health insurance plans. They chose their plans based on the services and coverage they needed or didn’t need and what they could afford. But now most of those already-insured Americans–maybe as many as 75% of them–are getting cancellation notices.
The Reformation can be summed up in six words, according to our pastor in his Reformation Day sermon last Sunday. Not the solas, not some version of “Here I stand,” but the words written down on a scrap of paper that Luther had in his
George Will has found something that President Obama and the Tea Party have in common: Both disdain Madisonian politics; that is, the checks and balances that require the different factions to compromise with each other, as built into the very structure of Constitutional governance. (more…)
Major Hollywood studios are working on movies based on stories from the Bible. See the list after the jump. (more…)
We often talk about how God works through material elements in the sacraments to convey His grace in Christ. But I came across a quotation that adds a dimension I never thought of before. The water of Baptism is certainly a natural substance, but the
Patrick J. Deneen writes about the similarities between the current crises in health care and education. He argues that the solutions put forward by both the left and the right will not work. Since both spheres had their origin in the work of the Church,
American citizens in great numbers resented the revelations via Edward Snowden that the NSA was monitoring their e-mails and phone calls. But the outrage is even greater among our allies, who learned that not only was our government snooping on their citizens, but that we
The land of Gustavus Adolphus, who gave his life defending the Lutheran confessions, has chosen a new archbishop who denies that Christ was born of a virgin, rejects the existence of Hell, says that the Bible is not true, believes all religions are equally valid,
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