Rod Dreher, a Christian writer of the Orthodox persuasion, has written a provocative article for the American Conservative that is getting a lot of attention entitled Sex after Christianity. He raises the question of whether Christianity can even survive once its assumptions about sexual morality
Feds spend at least $890,000 on fees for empty accounts – The Washington Post. (Every time the federal government sets up a grant, it opens an account. When the grant money is spent, the account can’t be closed, according to government rules, until a full
Remember Lori Lewis, who used to be a frequent commenter on this blog? She is a musician who used to be involved with the contemporary Christian music scene, discovered confessional Lutheranism, and became a critic of that genre. Now she’s a professional opera singer (as
Tim Keller, the well-respected pastor of Redeemer Prebyterian Church in New York, City, has written a book about vocation entitled Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work. I haven’t read it yet, though I’m ordering it, but from what I’ve heard and read
Interesting piece from the BBC about how the FBI conducts interrogations of terrorist suspects. And it doesn’t involve torture. (more…)
Somebody hacked into the Twitter account of the Associated Press, no less, and put out word that there were explosions in the White House that injured the president. That sent the stock market into a tailspin, but it recovered when the story turned out to
There was a time (I’m sounding old) when community activities were never planned on Sunday mornings. There was never such a thing as a soccer or little league practice scheduled for the time when most families were in church. That has changed. Now children’s sporting
I suspect that the Boston Marathon bombings may complicate the two big issues facing Congress right now. On gun control, I daresay that when the citizens of Boston and its environs were told to stay inside and not to open their doors to anyone other
Mathew Block, in the course of correcting a media error, explains that the Protestant state church of Germany is NOT Lutheran, but a federation of Protestant churches with a number of different theologies, including particularly the “Prussian Union,” which drove confessional Lutherans to Australia and
I stumbled upon He Rice Tanned (read it fast), a collection of sometimes humorous Luther memes. Samples after the jump. (If you know of others, or other Christian-related, or other good ones of any kind, let us know in the comments.) (more…)
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