2012-08-03T05:15:20-04:00

Remember those spunky little rovers that were landed on Mars, sending back pictures of the Red Planet for years on end?  Well, another rover is scheduled to touch down on Mars this Sunday, August 6. It’s the size of an SUV, with massive digging arms,

2012-08-02T06:00:31-04:00

Andrew Root, a professor at Luther Seminary, has a moving and illuminating article in Christianity Today.  A sample: Just months before my own wedding, I sat with my mom in the living room of the home I had grown up in, as she explained that

2012-08-02T05:30:12-04:00

Mitt Romney not only organized the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, he has a horse in this year’s game.  He and his wife are part owners of a horse that will compete in the dressage competition.   Comedians, satirists, and Democrats in general are having a

2012-08-02T05:15:29-04:00

According to the left, the financial crisis was caused in large measure by the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, making it possible for local commercial banks to make risky investments.  Business & economics columnist Steven Pearlstein–who is himself a liberal–busts that myth: I was watching

2012-08-01T06:00:16-04:00

Today, August 1, has been proclaimed “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” by those who support the chicken sandwich company’s CEO who is catching flak for opposing gay marriage.  Americans are being urged to show up at one of their stores and simply buy a sandwich.  I suspect

2012-08-01T05:45:01-04:00

As of today, women can get free contraceptives and abortifacients, as well as other goodies that their insurance will have to give them without co-pays to doctors: Democrats hailed the Aug. 1 introduction of these Affordable Care Act services as a turning point at which

2012-08-01T05:30:07-04:00

A former student wrote me after the Aurora shootings saying that a friend of his was in the theater and had been shot.  He said she was from an active homeschooling family, a leader in the Colorado homeschool debate league, and a committed Christian, very

2012-07-31T06:00:04-04:00

Who says conservative Lutherans don’t like contemporary Christian music in church?  We do.  It’s just that we want the contemporary Christian music to be, you know, hymns, as opposed to pop ditties.  And we do need new hymns.  Towards addressing that need, I am happy

2012-07-31T05:45:40-04:00

Christians have been emphasizing abstinence, says University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus, whereas they should be emphasizing marriage.  Instead, Christians are buying into the same confused ideas about marriage that the world has been assuming. Among both Christians and non-Christians, the marriage age has been

2012-07-31T05:30:05-04:00

About one of my students: Evan Johnson boarded the Washington, D.C. metro train at 5:15 a.m., surrounded by sleepy, somber commuters. One girl on his left read The Hunger Games on her Kindle, while the girl in front of him read the same novel in

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