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
Journalist Laura Sessions Stepp at CNN says that people who oppose contraception are anti-science. They are among those conservatives who have no faith in science and oppose Darwin’s theory of evolution. via Anti-science and anti-contraception – CNN.com. First of all, how can science (which is
As I have confessed in this space, I have pretty much stopped watching basketball, due to the feeling that I always jinx the team I want to win. Well, the Oklahoma City Thunder–from my home state–are so good that they even overcame me. When they
More on our continuing series on Christianity & the Arts, how the Christianity part has to include not just law but gospel. . . Phil Vischer, the creator of Veggie Tales, went bankrupt in 2003, sold the franchise, and turned to other ventures. In an
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker scored a victory in the vote to recall him. And pretty handily too, for all of the “too close to call” talk in the election night coverage: 54 percent to 45 percent, via Wisconsin recall: Scott Walker wins – Alexander Burns
We touched on this with the bill prohibiting sex-selection abortion, but here it is again, reported in a matter-of-fact way: Democrats will bring to the Senate floor on Tuesday the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that is supposed to help close the wage gap between
One of those darn kids invented a monster. It is called Shodan. And it threatens everything connected to the internet, which is now pretty much everything: It began as a hobby for a teenage computer programmer named John Matherly, who wondered how much he could
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