To be released this time next year! HT: Paul McCain
To be released this time next year! HT: Paul McCain
Our church was not one of the 10% of American churches that cancelled Sunday services on Christmas day, I’m happy to say. We had a wonderful service. Pastor Douthwaite’s sermon was on the “great reversal” of the Fall of Adam and Eve that God worked
Because they weren’t organized enough to get the petitions signed to get on the Virginia primary ballot! Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has failed to qualify for Virginia’s March 6 Republican primary, a development that complicates his bid to win the GOP presidential nomination. “After
An interesting article in Harper’s Magazine by MIT physicist Alan Lightman on how the “multiverse” theory–which cosmologists are embracing apparently as their only alternative to Intelligent Design–is throwing down the very foundations of the scientific enterprise: The history of science can be viewed as the
I would like to wish all of you readers–conservatives and liberals, Lutherans and non-Lutherans and anti-Lutherans, Christians and other religionists and atheists, moralists and libertarians, Tea Partiers and Occupy Wall Streeters, experts and textperts and choking smokers, and all of the other varied souls who
Last time Christmas fell on Sunday it came out that a number of churches had decided to cancel services, which provoked some controversy. I haven’t heard of churches doing that this year, whether because they have all come to their senses or because it has
I continue my custom of offering you a Christmas poem, poetry being “a trap for meditation.” Here is one that I just discovered by the Welsh Anglican cleric Rowland Watkyns (1662): Upon Christ’s Nativity, or Christmas From three dark places Christ came forth this day;
The online radio program Issues, Etc., is planning a marathon of sacred Christmas music beginning on Christmas Eve. You’ve got to love their promo:
Greg Forster, in the context of a discussion about Europe’s economic woes, makes some fascinating connections between the doctrine of vocation and economic productivity: A historically unprecedented phenomenon has been unfolding—in Europe for the past five centuries, in America for the past two, and more
What do you think of Newt Gingrich’s expressed plan, if he is elected president, to ignore court rulings that he disagrees with, to legislate judicial districts out of existence, to arrest judges in order to haul them before legislators to explain their rulings, to over-rule
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