Mr. Chairman, it’s a pleasure to be here. The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod is a body of some 6,200 congregations and 2.3 million members across the U.S. We don’t distribute voters’ lists. We don’t have a Washington office. We are studiously non-partisan, so much so that
I quote this column on rent control because in it George Will teaches us a new word, one that names a reality we might not have recognized before so as to help us think more clearly: James and Jeanne Harmon reside in and supposedly own
Now Planned Parenthood has released its minions on a Wisconsin food pantry for the poor: One thing we learned from the Komen/Planned Parenthood fiasco is that it may be easier to say no to the mob than Planned Parenthood. We saw it again recently in
A couple of weeks ago I posted this: Evidence homosexuality is not genetic | Cranach: The Blog of Veith. It was a link to a discussion of how identical twins (who share the exact same genes) are not particularly likely to both be gay (something
Sean Stone, son of the conspiracy-theorist filmmaker Oliver Stone, has converted to Islam in a ceremony held in Iran. But, he says, that doesn’t mean he isn’t still a Christian. And a Jew. A U.S. filmmaker who has a Jewish father and Christian mother today
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
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