I have it on good authority that Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, will testify before a Congressional committee investigating the religious liberty issues in the Obamacare abortion pill/contraception mandate. Testimony is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. ET. I’m told
At church last Sunday we had texts on Naaman the Leper (2 Kings 5:1-14) and the leper who begged Jesus for healing (Mark 1:40-45). The former, thinking to buy healing, came with $400,000 worth of silver and $4 million worth of gold (I appreciated how
Fred Hiatt, himself a liberal, notices the rise of two different and contending kinds of liberals: Nostalgia liberals and accountability liberals. The priorities of nostalgia liberalism are community, social cohesion and preservation of New Deal and Great Society programs. Accountability liberals put more stock in
Apologists for the administration’s abortion pill & contraceptive mandate are pointing to statistics that say as many as 98% of Roman Catholic women use contraceptives in defiance of the teaching of their church. This is then used to encourage Democrats to not back down from
In honor of the noble martyr Valentine, whose day we celebrate today, I would like to propose a meditation on Ephesians 5: 22-33. In this text we learn that a husband plays the role of Christ and the wife plays the role of the Church
Well, a transgendered man, one who used to be a woman. And evidently still is: The man, who is believed to be in his 30s, was able to carry a child after taking female hormones to reverse the effects of his female-to-male sex change treatment.
Mark Steyn compares President Obama’s religion policies to those of Henry VIII, whose “Act of Supremacy” gave him sole authority over his subjects’ faith and practice. You need to read what he says. But I draw your attention to just two parts of that essay.
President Obama has announced a compromise he is willing to enact on his mandatory abortion pill and contraceptive mandate. Employees of religious institutions that don’t believe in that sort of thing will have to ask the organization’s insurance company for the coverage, whereupon the insurance
The Constitution carves out space for religion so that it does not fall under government jurisdiction. So, as Charles Krauthammer points out, the government, which currently demands jurisdiction over everything, is re-defining religion: And thus, the word came forth from [Health & Human Services director
Rick Santorum has become a contender: Riding a wave of momentum from his trio of victories on Tuesday Rick Santorum has opened up a wide lead in PPP’s newest national poll. He’s at 38% to 23% for Mitt Romney, 17% for Newt Gingrich, and 13%
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