A Lutheran, a Calvinist, and a Baptist walk into a bar. . . and start talking about vocation. Well, not really. The Baptist would not go into a bar, and in this case there is no Baptist. I’d describe the Liberate folks (a ministry of
A Lutheran, a Calvinist, and a Baptist walk into a bar. . . and start talking about vocation. Well, not really. The Baptist would not go into a bar, and in this case there is no Baptist. I’d describe the Liberate folks (a ministry of
In a rare unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that human genes cannot be patented. As we blogged about earlier, some companies have patented human genetic material, but the judges ruled that only inventions and not products of nature can be patented. (more…)
Did you get a kick out of 300, the movie about the Battle of Thermopylae with the weird hyper-realistic computer animation? Then you will surely enjoy the sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, which will pick up the story of the Persian invasion of ancient
The current issue of For the Life of the World, the magazine of Concordia Theological Seminary, has some great articles by its faculty on Baptism. I’ll give you some samples of what they had to say: No more than a husband or wife would say
Sociologist Mark Regnerus discusses what we are learning about homosexual marriages, based on studies of countries that have had those arrangements for some time. (more…)
James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, had been asked in a Congressional committee if the U.S. government was collecting data on millions of Americans. He said, no. But now with news about PRISM and other data mining programs, he is being accused of perjury.
Thanks to Prof. Scott Ashmon of Concordia University Irvine for yet another great quote, this one from Martin Luther: “How dare you not know what can be known?” (Quoted in Robert Benne, “A Lutheran Vision/Version of Christian Humanism” Lutheran Forum 31 (1997): 42.) [Does anybody
Recently, the FDA approved the “morning-after pill,” a contraceptive taken after sex, for sale without a prescription to females over 15 years old. That created a furor from those who wanted it available to girls even younger. The government has given up the fight, so
Most of the discussion on this blog about the government’s program to monitor phone calls and the internet has been against it. But some pundits, politicians, and security experts are defending the surveillance. After the jump, I have excerpts from two journalists who defend the
Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA employee who has been working with an intelligence contractor, revealed himself to be the source of reports about the government’s mass monitoring of telephones and the internet. After the jump, read about the cloak-and-dagger details from the perspective of
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