Julia Polese of the Institute for Religion and Democracy on LCMS President Matthew Harrison’s open letter on the Obamacare insurance mandate. (I draw your attention to what pro-infanticide ethicist Peter Singer has to say on the topic.) The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) recently
Charles Krauthhammer on how President Obama is acting lawlessly, doing something that he himself earlier said would be unconstitutional: In late 2010, he asked Congress to pass the Dream Act, which offered a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants. Congress
If we are going to do our traditional “guess the vice-president” game, we’d better hurry, since, reportedly, Mitt Romney will announce his choice before the Republican convention. It seems to me that the conventional wisdom that the vice president doesn’t matter is wrong on several
So what’s this about Southern Baptists cracking down on the Calvinists in their midst? See As Baptists Prepare to Meet, Calvinism Debate Shifts to Heresy Accusation | Christianity Today. Do Lutherans have a dog in this fight?
Leah Libresco has been running one of the atheism blogs at the pan-religion site Patheos, hers being entitled Unequally Yoked: A Geeky Atheist Picks Fights in Good Faith. Well, now the subtitle has changed to A Geeky Convert Picks Fights in Good Faith. And Patheos
Well, the Oklahoma City Thunder made it to the NBA championship series but got beat 4 games to 1 by the Miami Heat. But I refuse to take the blame. I’ve been enjoying watching basketball again, and I think I’ll continue to do so.
D. E. Hinkle passed along an obituary for Prof. Wynn Kenyon, who sparked a controversy in the Presbyterian Church back in 1974 for not going along with the ordination of women. For our purposes here, consider the last paragraph in this excerpt: Mr. Kenyon, who
In a New York Times op-ed piece, David V. Mason admits to being a Mormon and most emphatically NOT a Christian: I’m about as genuine a Mormon as you’ll find — a templegoer with a Utah pedigree and an administrative position in a congregation of
There was a conference on stopping child sex trafficking. So the Oakland branch of the Occupy Wall Street protested on the grounds that such efforts are “racist” acts of oppression against “sex workers.” From Zombie, who provides photos, quotes, and commentary from the demonstrations (caution:
As promised yesterday, here is Jono Linebaugh discussing the role of the Law in the life of someone who has faith in the Gospel of Christ. I know the Third Use of the Law is a big controversy in Lutheranism. Paul McCain, for example, has
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