One of the ways I observe Lent (which starts tomorrow) is to read. I know, that’s like a fish saying that he is making plans to swim. I read quite a bit anyway, but for my specifically Lenten reading I look for something that is
One of the ways I observe Lent (which starts tomorrow) is to read. I know, that’s like a fish saying that he is making plans to swim. I read quite a bit anyway, but for my specifically Lenten reading I look for something that is
Tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET, President of Obama will give his State of the Union address. He is expected to propose policies and legislative measures to flesh out the ideology set forth in his Inaugural address. What proposals do you think he will put forward?
I knew it would only be a matter of time before the newly-ascendant left applied some postmodern linguistic constructivism to make our problems go away. From Zachary Karabell in the Washington Post: Debt is simply a new form of currency that is issued, bought, priced
The pope has surprised the world by announcing his resignation. From BBC: Pope Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month after nearly eight years as the head of the Catholic Church, saying he is too old to continue at the age
Yesterday was the climax of the Epiphany season, Transfiguration Sunday, marking the most explicit epiphany of Jesus during His time on earth. St. Peter saw witnessed it personally, as he describes in His second epistle. But he goes on to say that we have something
Is this back to the Star Chamber approach to justice, with secret courts, no indictments, no witnesses, and no appeals, all in service to the monarch? U.S. senators are now floating the idea of an assassination court as a way to rein in the ever-expanding
Todd Wilken with an important reminder in light of the uproar over the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod’s stand against our civil religion, with its president disciplining a pastor for participating in an interfaith service for the school shootings in Connecticut: God is really blessing the
Pastors of the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod are not allowed to participate in joint worship services, not with other denominations we are not in fellowship with and certainly not interfaith services with other religions and where other gods are worshiped. After 9/11, a pastor led a
The blogger who goes by the name of Josephus Flavius quotes the 20th century Orthodox saint St. Nikolai of Žiča writing to a railroad engineer who complained about his boring job. He was writing about vocation and how seeing one’s work in relation to faith
On February 15, an asteroid of the size that struck this planet in the past, knocking out that forest in Siberia and making Meteor Crater in Arizona, will pass not only between the earth and the moon but between the earth and the orbit of
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