On Monday, a complete stranger came up to me and said, “Hey, you know who you look like?” “No,” I said. “That actor who just died. What was his name?” “Philip Seymour Hoffman.” It never occurred to me that we looked like each other, but
On Monday, a complete stranger came up to me and said, “Hey, you know who you look like?” “No,” I said. “That actor who just died. What was his name?” “Philip Seymour Hoffman.” It never occurred to me that we looked like each other, but
According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, Obamacare, when fully implemented, will cost the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs. Not so much from businesses cutting back hiring but because people will not want to work so much. Older people will no longer feel they need
There was a time, not long ago, when people were just expected to go to church. It was a cultural thing–to be respectable, a fine upstanding member of the community, you went to church. Whether or not you believed it or practiced it or not.
So what did you think of Bob Dylan’s Chrysler commercial? There he was, clear voiced, no mumbling, unobscure, voicing over some great Americana imagery. (He doesn’t appear until 47 seconds in.) I’m assuming that he wrote the script. Though it lacks Dylan’s trademark surrealistic imagery,
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed back in 1997. Liberal Democratic Senator from New York Chuck Schumer introduced it, the House passed it unanimously and the Senate voted for it 97-3, and President Bill Clinton signed it into law. But now the Freedom from
Yet another definitive answer to the question, Why not Lutheranism?, has been written. This one is by Anthony Sacramone and you simply must read all of it. It is both humorous and profound. He says that Lutherans are essentially boring, both in a bad and
For me, growing up in perhaps the blandest version of mainline liberal Protestantism, Lutheranism, far from being boring, seemed wonderfully exotic. All of that medieval-style chanting; people thinking they were eating Jesus’ body and drinking His blood; having beer at church dinners. On that last
A Hollywood heavyweight weighs in on the “Alone Yet Not Alone” controversy. From the Hollywood Reporter: Gerald Molen, an Oscar-winning producer of Schindler’s List, is accusing the Academy of discriminating against a religious movie in revoking its nomination in the best song category. (more…)
The House of Representatives passed a bill that bans the use of tax-payer money to pay for abortions. (I thought something like that was already in place, but this law is apparently stronger.) Of course, it will never get past the Democratic-majority Senate or the
God becoming man involved more than just His assumption of a human body, but his entry into all of the elements of human life. So observed Dr. Joel Lehenbauer, the Executive Director of the Commission on Theology & Church Relations of the Lutheran Church Missouri
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