2013-06-26T21:41:11-04:00

Bono, the lead singer for U2, did a radio interview with Jim Daly  of Focus on the Family.  He gets really explicit about his Christian faith.  Note especially what he says about Jesus. (more…)

2013-06-26T21:34:12-04:00

President Obama, being unable to get his environmental and anti-global warming agenda through Congress, has announced that he will impose it by executive order.  After all, the bureaucracies and regulatory agencies of the Executive branch have become the nation’s de facto lawmakers anyway.  So why

2013-06-26T21:22:34-04:00

The Supreme Court rulings supporting gay marriage have other consequences.  According to Thomas Peters, “these decisions today constitute a huge threat to our democratic process.” (more…)

2013-06-26T11:10:41-04:00

The Supreme Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage for the purposes of the federal government as being between a man and a woman, is unconstitutional.  The court also let stand, on what seem to be narrow grounds, a lower court ruling

2013-06-25T19:05:09-04:00

As many as 6% of atheists pray, as many non-believers seek the benefits of religion without, you know, believing in it.  Michelle Boorstein of the Washington Post talks to some of them. (more…)

2013-06-25T19:06:24-04:00

That blind Chinese dissident who was under house arrest for opposing forced abortion and escaped to the United States was given an academic appointment at New York University. But it’s being pulled now, some say because the university wants to open a satellite campus in

2013-06-25T19:07:21-04:00

A couple of years ago, I wrote a post in praise of the naked mole rat, an exceedingly odd little creature with seemingly super powers when it comes to health and longevity.  Well, scientists have recently discovered why these things don’t get cancer, something that

2013-06-25T11:31:13-04:00

Today, June 25, is the anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession, which happened in 1530.  Now it was not just one monk saying “Here I stand.”  The Reformation had become a movement.  Read it today.  (Non-Lutherans, what do you think?) After the jump,

2013-06-24T22:17:59-04:00

The Church of England is breaking new ground in being “missional,” in the sense of changing the church to fit a particular culture.  It is going after the “spiritual but not religious” crowd by starting what they are calling “a pagan church.” (more…)

2013-06-24T22:19:52-04:00

Are you familiar with Doxology, the Lutheran institute on pastoral care (as well as care for pastors)?  Led by Rev. Harold Senkbeil (who has written widely on Christian spirituality and who has applied it very effectively as a pastor) and Dr. Beverly Yahnke (the most


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