Some years ago, I, as a Lutheran, was invited to write about the Lord’s Supper in Tabletalk, a magazine with mostly Reformed readers, which was doing special issue on the sacraments. I didn’t want to argue, just explain what Holy Communion means and can mean
You have doubtless heard about the college that had students stomp on the name of Jesus as an exercise in a class on cultural understanding. I noticed the parallel to something that happened in Gulliver’s Travels in which the satirist Jonathan Swift portrays Dutch traders
More bad news for the coming Obamacare trainwreck. From the Associated Press: Medical claims costs — the biggest driver of health insurance premiums — will jump an average 32 percent for Americans’ individual policies under President Barack Obama’s overhaul, according to a study by the
Thanks to Frank Sonnek for introducing me to this sonnet about the sinful woman in Luke 7:36-50. It’s by the son of the great Romantic poet Samuel T. Coleridge! (Just as the great hymnwriter Christopher Wordsworth was the nephew of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth.
Homosexuals have pulled what may be the greatest public relations revolution in history, going from reviled to celebrated in the twinkling of an eye. Illegal immigrants have also scored a public relations coup, as their cause is now ascendant. Immigration activist Frank Sharry says that
More weird science: Two forthcoming research papers question whether or not the nature of a vacuum remains static. In one paper, Marcel Urban from the University of Paris-Sud, located in Orsay, France identified a quantum level mechanism for interpreting vacuum as being filled with pairs
In church on Palm Sunday, our pastor gave another powerful sermon, with a great missionary story: “Where are their gods? . . . Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!” [Deuteronomy 32:37-38] Those are the words of God through Moses
Couples seeking egg donors have been placing ads in Ivy League student newspapers, seeking the perfect blonde, blue-eyed Aryan with a high IQ to sell one of her eggs for $20,000. Nothing is said about what the ovary-manipulating drugs may do to her. (more…)
Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments on California’s Proposition 8, in which the people of the state voted not to allow gay marriage. On Wednesday, the court will hear a related case on whether the Defense of Marriage Act, in which Congress defined marriage
Bach is among the very greatest of Christian artists, and his “St. Matthew Passion” is considered one of his greatest works. It is an oratorio, something like an opera, that sets to music Matthew’s account of the crucifixion of Christ (Chapters 26-27), with soloists singing
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