On the LCMS website, looking for an address, I saw prominently featured an article or an interview or something I didn’t even remember doing in which I very succinctly summarize the Lutheran theology of culture. It’s rather different from other approaches, but I think it’s
A court stopped the imposition of fines being levied on Hobby Lobby for refusing to go along with the Obamacare contraception and morning-after-pill mandate until the case is fully litigated. In doing so, the court ruled that corporations and for-profit businesses have religious liberty rights.
More diplomatic embarrassment as additional Snowden papers reveal that the National Security Administration has been bugging the offices of the European Union in Washington, the United Nations, and even its headquarters in Brussels. (Not just the internet and phone monitoring. Old-fashioned microphones in the buildings.)
According to some circles, in order to be a consistent conservative, you really need to be a Roman Catholic. Darryl Hart challenges that notion. (more…)
Religious organizations have objected to the Obamacare requirement that the health insurance they give their employees must provide for free contraception and morning-after-pills. Now the Obama administration has issued new rules for how those organizations can sort-of opt out of the mandate, while still providing
Great Britain has approved a in-vitro-fertilization technique that conceives babies using genetic material from three different parents. (If I’m sorting it out correctly, it will take one father and two different mothers, with the destruction of one embryo being used for spare parts.) (more…)
As my daughter pointed out, churches have been violating God’s design for marriage long before gay marriage became an issue, what with our easy tolerance of divorce, remarriage, and other anti-Biblical practices. Russell D. Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
In yet another example of using taxes to control people’s behavior, it is now being proposed (not by lawmakers so far) to battle obesity by taxing food based on its number of calories. (more…)
Evidently, President Obama is not in complete thrall to environmentalists. He has said that he supports “fracking,” the technique of pumping in liquid to fracture geological formations that is unlocking vast quantities of natural gas. (more…)
Nice sympathetic piece at the CNN education blog about the Classical Christian education movement. From Julia Duin: In Maryland, a group of students ponder which depiction of the Nativity shows true beauty: A 14th-century Giotto, a 16th-century Barocci or a 20th-century William Congdon. The students
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