The Boy Scouts of America will propose a change to their policies that will admit gay members but still not allow gay scout leaders. Is that a good compromise? Gay activists are attacking the proposal, insisting that the scouts also allow for gay leaders. The
From Fox News: BREAKING: A day-long dragnet for the second of two brothers believed to be behind Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing ended Friday night, with police capturing the suspect covered in blood and hiding in a boat in the backyard of a man who called
Thanks to Bob Miller for showing me this quotation from John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) from his Homily 5 on Titus: “Woman was not made for this, O man, to be prostituted as common. O you subverters of all decency, who use men, as if they
Those who convert to Catholicism are said to have “swum the Tiber,” referring to the river that runs through Rome. Those who convert to Orthodoxy are said to have “swum the Bosphorus,” the strait in Turkey that separates Europe from Asia. So what is a
Lots of things have been happening in the news, including some new developments in topics we have discussed earlier. I’ll just pull together some links: Have you seen these men? The FBI has released photos from surveillance videos that depict two suspects in the Boston
Karl Barth (not to be confused with the good Karl Barth of the LCMS) was a neo-orthodox theologian, which isn’t as good as being an orthodox theologian, but it was arguably better than being a liberal. Which he was when he first got out of
In the course of an article about the Roman Catholic organization Communion and Liberation, a group with which the current Pope Francis was affiliated, one that offered a more orthodox alternative to Liberation Theology, Tracey Rowland describes two Marxist strategies for dealing with Christianity and
Interesting story in the BBC on how American beer, once derided in the world’s cultures that take beer seriously, has suddenly become fashionable. America’s craft breweries have spawned international fans and imitators, though also new controversies among the purists. (more…)
Letters laced with the deadly poison ricin were sent to President Obama and a Republican senator. The letters were intercepted and an arrest has been made (one Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, someone who doesn’t sound Muslim). Authorities don’t think these terrorist attacks are
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