I used to live in Miami, Oklahoma. The local college, Northeast Oklahoma A&M, was my first teaching job out of grad school. That was where I became a Lutheran, being catechized and received into membership at the wonderful congregation of Mt. Olive Lutheran Church. Imagine
More on how Christians from all traditions are discovering Luther’s distinction between Law and Gospel. This is evident in this post from Southern Baptist pastor Micah Fries at Project TGM, who goes on to make a further point that we conservative Lutherans might sometimes overlook:
Postmodernists, who believe that truth is relative, reject such retro concepts as logic, evidence, and reason, all of which assume that truth is objective. Instead, postmodernists practice what they call “constructivism.” Truth is not something we discover; rather, truth is something we “construct.” Thus, argumentation
Romney Narrows Vote Gap After Historic Debate Win.
Yesterday had been declared “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” by a group of activist pastors and a conservative legal organization. Over a thousand pastors purposefully violated the law by endorsing, by name, a political candidate, something non-profit organizations are not allowed to do. They recorded their endorsement
Illegal immigrants and other non-citizens don’t have the right to vote, of course. But, as required by the Constitution, they ARE counted in the census that determines the population of states for the allocation of congressional representatives. That means a state with large numbers of
Maria-TV is a new Egyptian television station, all of whose employees are women. Though it’s getting attention in the West because all of its broadcasters wear the niqab, the total covering except for a slit for the eyes, the purpose of the station is to
We should have a discussion for Columbus Day as we have for other holidays. This day is also observed in Latin American countries as Dia de la Raza, a day to mark the meeting and mixing of Native American and Spanish cultures. Many Native Americans,
Literature professor that I am, I appreciate this application of the unutterably great Dante to today’s political and cultural woes. It’s by Henry G. Brinton, pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church, who got it published in USA Today: In Inferno, hell is cold at its deepest
Bob Dylan has an interview in Rolling Stone that is confounding some people for bringing back that whole religion thing. You can’t read it online without a subscription, but David Zahl at Mockingbird posts some highlights: Do you ever worry that people interpreted your work
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