Kathleen Parker draws attention to something Romney did that he really deserves credit for: When Rick Perry had his 53-second brain-freeze in which he forgot which agency he was going to shut down, Romney tried to help him. The 53-second eternity has been replayed sufficiently,
The Supreme Court will hear challenges to Obamacare and will hand down a decision probably in July, which will be before the election: The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, with an election-year ruling due by
Chaplain Mike over at the blog Internet Monk has more to say about his conversion to Lutheranism. He focuses here on how helpful he is finding the Christ-centeredness of Lutheranism and the distinction between Law and Gospel: How the Lutheran Tradition Answers Many Post-Evangelical Concerns
Michael Spencer ran the blog Internet Monk, which became an important forum for Christians struggling with a whole range of issues in the evangelical world. Spencer, a Baptist, found lots of help in Lutheran theology, especially in its understanding of the Gospel. Spencer died of cancer not
Julia Duin is a Christian journalist who is a real pro. She has a long story in the Washington Post Magazine on West Virginia snake handlers. What I appreciate is that she approaches these mountain Pentecostalists with utter respect,without a shred of condescension or ridicule.
Here is the pattern: A Republican presidential candidate rises to the top as the alternative to Mitt Romney. Whereupon he or she gets knocked off the pedestal. Now it is Newt Gingrich’s turn: Two polls out Friday show former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s campaign gaining
Don’t call people in a coma “vegetables.” That’s a dehumanizing figure of speech. And, as researchers have recently discovered, it isn’t necessarily an accurate description: All the patients had the same terrible diagnosis: brain damage that marooned them in a “vegetative state” — alive but
Today, 11/11/11, is Veterans Day, a time to be thankful for the military vocations. Use this space in a comment to honor a veteran you know. I’ll go first: My father-in-law, one of those Marines who fought at Iwo Jima.
In his All Saints Day sermon that is worth reading in itself, our pastor, Rev. Douthwaite, read a great quotation from Luther: “There is no greater bondage than that of sin; and there is no greater service than that displayed by the Son of God,
In the aftermath of the child sexual abuse perpetrated by football coach Jerry Sandusky, Penn State fired both legendary head coach Joe Paterno AND the college president Graham Spanier. Whereupon students went on a riot: Happy Valley was in bedlam early today as angry, chanting
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