2013-02-11T20:52:42-05:00

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

2013-02-11T10:08:41-05:00

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

2013-02-10T16:07:57-05:00

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

2013-02-10T16:34:11-05:00

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

2013-02-10T16:36:24-05:00

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

2013-02-08T14:12:08-05:00

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

2013-02-07T22:31:17-05:00

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

2013-02-07T22:33:59-05:00

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

2013-02-07T22:34:48-05:00

Some business teachers and managing consultants still use their yellowed notes about Japan’s economic success, but that is way out of date.  For decades, Japan’s economy has been in the doldrums.  Why?  And why hasn’t their economy ever bounced back?   Economics columnist Robert J.

2013-02-07T09:07:45-05:00

Rev. Jonathan Fisk, the young pastor known for his lively  Worldview Everlasting videos, has published a book entitled Broken – Seven “Christian” Rules That Every Christian Ought to Break as Often as Possible.  This is a book that needs to get into the hands of

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