Michelle Boorstein writes in the Washington Post about how virtually everybody–liberals and conservatives, New Agey “spirituals” and Bible-believing Christians–have been turning against the word “religion.” (more…)
Michelle Boorstein writes in the Washington Post about how virtually everybody–liberals and conservatives, New Agey “spirituals” and Bible-believing Christians–have been turning against the word “religion.” (more…)
Mathew Block, the communications director of the Lutheran Church Canada who writes for the First Things blog, praises the re-election of Matt Harrison to the presidency of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. He cites “another topic worthy of discussion in considering President Harrison’s first term—namely,
I’m at the Consortium for Classical & Lutheran Education conference in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. To add to the organization’s school accreditation program, we announced a process for teacher certification in this approach. Also announced was a new resource: A Handbook for Classical Lutheran Education. Edited
In response to the feature I posted about on the most ugly churches, Michael Sean Winters asked for nominations for the most beautiful churches. No slide show and just a few links, but go here for some nominations in different categories: The Most Beautiful Churches
This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of a theologian I had never heard of but whose Christ-centered approach to theology sounds very promising: Thomas F. Torrance of the Church of Scotland, described in First Things as “an orthodox, ecumenical, and pastoral theologian”:
As the abortion battles shift to the states, pro-abortionists are all fired up over Texas, which passed a bill banning the procedure after 20 weeks (that’s 5 months!). This despite a filibuster by Texas lawmaker Wendy Davis, who has become the new hero of the
Robert J. Samuelson says that Americans have a hard time with the concept of a vacation: In the global rivalry of economic models and lifestyles, the United States ranks dead last among advanced countries in one category: vacations. It’s not that millions of Americans don’t
Theologian Stanley Hauerwas has written a devastating critique of America and American Protestantism that, agree with it or not, is worth thinking about. He argues that American Protestantism, which has been so influential in American culture, is fading away because of its cultural conformity. (He
According to Rem Rieder, writing in USA Today, the media constructed a story about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin that captured the public’s imagination but couldn’t stand up in court. Thus the controversy. Rieder’s analysis offers a textbook example not just of how media bias
As we’ve blogged about earlier, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus has broken ties with its mother church in Sweden over gay marriage and related issues. Now the 6 million-strong church–one of the fastest growing in the world (and the third largest Lutheran church in
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