2012-06-22T05:30:07-04:00

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.

2012-06-21T06:05:49-04:00

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

2012-06-21T06:00:28-04:00

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

2012-06-21T05:30:47-04:00

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: 

2012-06-20T06:00:59-04:00

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

2012-06-20T05:45:59-04:00

From Victor Davis Hanson: Economically, why would we formalize nearly a million new legally authorized workers when unemployment is approaching its 41st consecutive month over 8 percent — especially when Democrats used to label 5.4 percent unemployment as a “jobless recovery”? Here in California, the

2012-06-20T05:30:23-04:00

The ancients talked about the human body as a microcosm, as a little world.  Now scientists have shown just how true that is, how each of us is a world with millions of inhabitants: They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut

2012-06-19T06:00:30-04:00

More in our continuing series on non-Lutherans discovering Lutheran theology (while  many Lutherans throw it away). Jono Linebaugh, New Testament Professor at Knox Theological Seminary, is working in the same orbit as Tullian Tchividjian, Billy Graham’s grandson and pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, in

2012-06-19T05:30:07-04:00

The old prohibition movement sought to ban alcoholic beverages.  The new prohibition movement seeks to ban soft drinks. New York City is considering banning large portions; Cambridge, Massachusetts, is considering banning soft drinks altogether.  See City Of Cambridge – CITY CLERK OFFICE, CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS. What

2012-06-19T05:15:22-04:00

The president as above the law.  From Victor Davis Hanson discussing the de facto amnesty for illegal immigrants: Legally, President Obama has reiterated the principle that he can pick and choose which U.S. laws he wishes to enforce (see his decision to reverse the order

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