Yesterday we posted about mining “big data,” how corporations, politicians, and researchers are delving into Twitter, Google, Facebook, and other online information to forecast trends, target customers, and gain various competitive advantages. Well, it turns out that the Obama campaign is mining such data on
There is a TV show on BBC called Luther about a British police investigator, a black man played by Idris Elba. According to Jordan Ballor, Luther is also Lutheran, a dramatic exploration of vocation and what it means to be a little Christ to your
President Obama said something that will be a much-replayed sound-bite in the presidential race: Laying out his economic argument at a morning news conference, Obama said that cutbacks in state and local government spending have slowed the nation’s recovery and that Congress has “no excuse”
An interesting article by Ariana Eunjung Cha on how financiers, politicians, and researchers are mining data from Twitter, Google, Facebook, and the like to identify trends and forecast the future: From a trading desk in London, Paul Hawtin monitors the fire hose of more than
Picking up on some earlier discussion, I came across this list of ways that a person can know whether or not they have been truly saved. They are from a book by Jim Wilson entitled (ironically, it seems to me) Assurance of Salvation: 1. The
Another practice in which Congress evades its constitutional responsibilities: Passing laws that consist largely of vague frameworks and enabling bureaucrats from the executive branch to fill in the blanks with the substance of the law. George Will on a bill that would put regulations back
Come to The Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education conference, July 17-19, 2012, at Memorial Lutheran Church & School in Houston, Texas. I’ll be there! Here is a summary of what’s on tap: Plenary Speakers Rev. Todd Wilken of Issues, Etc., for discussions on essential
Washington, D.C., turns into a sweltering swamp in the summer. It has been said that our problems with a too-big government began with the invention of air conditioning. Before that, Congress and government officials only stayed in town a few months and was anxious to
The latest issue of Christianity Today has a brilliant cover story that accounts for much of what we see in American churches today. A century and more ago, many Protestant churches adjusted their worship and their ministries to accord with something that at first was
Another great artist has died, Ray Bradbury. His genre was science fiction, and though his religious beliefs were somewhat inchoate, he had them, and his stories often have a Christian resonance. In a tribute by Kathy Schiffer, she addresses his religious beliefs: Bradbury described himself
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