The worst criminals tend to be very religious. In fact, they often use religion to rationalize their misdeeds. Of course, in doing so, their theology is horrendous. Nicholas C. DiDonato reports on some research that studied How criminals use religion to justify their crimes. Details
The federal government has been monitoring the phone calls of some 10 million Verizon subscribers (nearly 10% of them), thanks to a secret court order that initiated what is being called the largest and most open-ended surveillance effort ever and a grave assault on civil
Norway is considered a hyper-secularized country, but its biggest bestselling book today is a new translation of the Bible. (more…)
That post we had the other day about why there can be Calvinist Baptists but not Lutheran Baptists turned out to be part of a very interesting discussion in the Christian blogosphere. Superblogger Joe Carter wrote a post summarizing the various points in the debate.
Our pastor had some good reflections in our church newsletter on the 17-year locusts (a.k.a. “cicadas”) coming out of the ground around these parts. He manages to connect cicadas to people, sin, the church, death, resurrection, and baptism! (more…)
On the eve of the last election, the venerable polling firm Gallup predicted that Mitt Romney would beat Obama 49% to 48%. Actually, Obama won, 52%-48%. The company has been studying what went wrong. Despite Republican complaints that pollsters were using methods that were undercounting
One of the best books I have ever read on classical education is the just-released title Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child (Memoria Press). It’s by my friend and colleague on the board of the Consortium for Classical & Lutheran Education, Cheryl Swope.
Christian physicist Stephen M. Barr, of the University of Deleware and a frequent contributor to First Things, wrote with some other scientists a paper on the Higgs field–an aspect of the so-called “God particle”–that is getting new attention in light of the collider that has
One of the tornadoes that hit the Oklahoma City area on Friday was the widest ever recorded at 2.6 miles. It was rated an EF5, which is the very top of the tornado scale. Nine days earlier, another EF5 had hit Moore, an Oklahoma City
Well, we are getting back to normal now. Our ill-fated road trip is over, and we are back home. The funeral for my father was more like the second kind of funeral I posted about. It was good to see so many old friends and
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