Anthony Sacramone asked me to write something on “How to Find Your Vocation in College” for the I.S.I. website he edits, so I did. I also took the opportunity to answer the conservative pundits who are saying that college students should all go into technology
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Most diagnoses of what ails the Republican party have been focusing on social conservatism, saying that Republicans need to stop opposing gay marriage and abortion if they want to start winning national elections. But now some are arguing that the Republican commitment to libertarian economic
I have learned a new word, though I’m quite familiar with the reality. From BBC News – Why your inbox fills with bacn instead of spam: Bacn is becoming what spam once was – the nuisance that fills up your inbox and makes it hard
New statistics have been released giving the largest Protestant denominations. We Missouri Synod Lutherans are #11 with 2.3 million members. That’s more than the Episcopalians (#12 with 2 milllion), though they get all the attention. If you add up the two biggest Lutheran groups (the
Remember Mark Sanford, the Republican governor of South Carolina? Disappeared in 2009? Released story that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail? Was really in Argentina with his mistress? Finished his term in disgrace? Well, he just won the Republican primary for his old seat in
North Korea has threatened to nuke Hawaii, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas. Now the Stalinist regime is saying that war could break out “today or tomorrow.” We have heard threats from North Korea before–though not like these–and we always dismiss them on the
One of the mysteries of the American religious scene is why all but one of the Eastern Orthodox church bodies in this country are members of the National Council of Churches, the mouthpiece for liberal Protestant denominations. Not only that, the NCC consistently promotes abortion,
I have always admired garbage collectors. Their work is hard and dirty, but essential, and yet they do not get the respect they so richly deserve. They too are masks of God and without them, as Luther said in another context, we would perish in
Republicans have lost the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections. Demographics, geography, and the trends of the day are working against them. Just like the Democrats in the 1980s. See Dan Balz in Republicans today can learn lessons from the Democrats’
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