A Gallup poll surveyed what Americans find morally acceptable and unacceptable. From The Atlantic: What do we learn from this? I’ll start: Pornography comes out as worse than abortion, sex outside of marriage, and the death penalty. Nearly two out of three Americans consider pornography
As the Mitt Romney campaign hails his business experience and as the Obama campaign demonizes it neither side wants to talk about what is surely Romney’s most pertinent qualification for the presidency; namely, being governor of Massachusetts. Ezra Klein explains why both parties are avoiding
The Norwegian parliament has voted to do away with the state church. The measure, which was passed unanimously and which also seems to have the approval of church officials, will still provide some church funding, though extending that to other groups, including “humanists.” Though all
So another Safe Scruffy White Guy with Guitar (SSWGWG) won American Idol yet again, beating out far better singers because so many pre-adolescent girls with cell-phones thought he was cute. That’s what critics are saying. I acknowledge the underlying problem, but I would argue that
Muslims are hailing the discovery of a version of the apocryphal Gospel of Barnabus that has Jesus allegedly predicting the coming of Mohammed. This will cause, so they say, the collapse of Christianity. Iran’s Basij Press is claiming that a version of the Gospel of
George Will sums up how Elizabeth Warren and her Ivy League universities played the diversity game: Blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, the Senate candidate in Massachusetts and Harvard professor who cites “family lore” that she is 1/32nd Cherokee, was inducted into Oklahoma’s Hall of Fame last
A driver coming from the opposite direction flashes headlights at you. You slow down. Sure enough, when you go around the corner you see a highway patrolman with a radar gun. That stranger with the flashing headlights saved you from a speeding ticket. Is that
A good test-case for our discussions about what makes for Christian art. Christian art historian Daniel Siedell (a Lutheran sympathizer) on the bad theology of the paintings of Thomas Kinkade, the popular “painter of light” who died recently: Kinkade claimed, “I like to portray a
It would seem that pro-lifers are winning the argument. Except that a large number of pro-lifers evidently believe that abortion should be legal. The percentage of Americans who identify themselves as “pro-choice” is at the lowest point ever measured by Gallup, according to a new
One of the promising developments in homeschooling is the advent of on-line courses. Parents can now enroll their children in an entire on-line school or in individual hard-to-teach-on-your-own classes. A promising venture that many Lutheran homeschoolers are excited about is Wittenberg Academy, an online classical
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