The Obama administration released new guidelines meant to resolve the issue of religious institutions having to provide free contraceptive and abortifacient coverage under Obamacare. This will have no effect on businesses run by pro-life individuals, who will still have to provide the coverage. Read details
The Boy Scouts are caught between Scylla and Charybdis–or, as more of them might put it less classically, a rock and a hard place. The organization has had to deal with scandals involving gay scoutmasters and some incidents of child sexual abuse. So it tightened
Remember when the United States used to be “the world’s policeman”? We don’t do that anymore, for some arguably good reasons. But the USA used to be the go-to world power, the defender of freedom, a force to counter tyranny and social disorder. But we’ve
I don’t expect non-Lutherans to believe what Lutherans do. I do expect Lutherans to believe what Lutherans do. Especially Lutheran pastors. Rev. Dan Delzell, the pastor of Wellspring Lutheran Church in Papillion, Nebraska,is a regular writer for ChristianPost.com. As we blogged earlier, last year he
You’d think the people who once were targets of racist eugenics would not practice that on others: Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. (more…)
Remember the “sequester,” the automatic budget cuts that were supposed to go into effect on January 2 but were kicked down the road to March 1? The result of last year’s agreement on the national debt and the recent “fiscal cliff” deliberations? Since the cuts
The day may come when reckoning time according to the birth of Christ will give way to numbering our years according to the Roman numerals of the Superbowl. That’s basically what the ancient Greeks did when they counted their years according to what Olympiad it
Christianity Today has set up a symposium discussing the following question: Do American Christians Need the Message of Grace or a Call to Holiness? As usual, no Lutherans were asked to participate, and the whole debate is maddening for a Lutheran to read, not just
I like cats. I like dogs too, but I appreciate cats. But those cool, purring, graceful creatures are formidable killers. One estimate is that cats kill as many as one out of ten birds. From ABC: Cats are responsible for the deaths of 1.4 to
Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein says that “How government is run, more than what exactly it does, seems set to be the main battleground of American politics in coming years.” He then cites articles from the New America Foundation that say the government’s approach is
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