I didn’t watch the last Republican presidential candidate debate, but it sounds like Perry’s performance was out and out embarrassing: On Wednesday night in Michigan, Perry said he would cut three agencies from the federal government but could only name two of them. “Commerce, Education
New technology is unlocking vast amounts of natural gas in the United States, enough to have a huge economic impact. Yes, it involves “fracking,” the controversial practice of pumping chemical-laced water into shale deposits, but improvements in that technique are starting to satisfy all but
I’ve had some posts about Tullian Tchividjian, Billy Graham’s grandson and the successor to D. James Kennedy at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. He is a significant evangelical pastor who credits Lutherans (e.g., Bo Giertz; Harold Senkbeil; Rod Rosenbladt) for helping him to understand the full
The people of Mississippi rejected a state constitutional amendment that would classify a human embryo as a “person” entitled to all legal protections. According to the latest count, the margin was 59% to 41%. This, even though both Republican and Democratic leaders in that conservative
November 6 was the commemoration day for one of my heroes, the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, the military genius and devout Lutheran who arguably was used by God to save Protestantism from extermination during the Thirty Years’ War. Sometimes honored as the greatest Lutheran layman,
Economics columnist Steven Pearlstein describes how high finance is distorting the commodities market and warns that speculation and “financialization” is blowing up a big bubble: Silly you. You actually thought companies existed to make products and profits. You thought houses were meant to provide a
Another non-Lutheran discovers a Lutheran insight. Carl Trueman, professor at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, posts about theologians of the cross as opposed to theologians of glory. He explains it pretty well, I think: One of the things that is so striking about the current revival
I went into Washington yesterday and stumbled upon the Occupy D.C. folks. They were in a little green space on Pennsylvania Avenue, which they have filled up with tents. I was surprised to see how few of them there were. Estimates have been a couple
Some states already require adoption and foster care agencies to give children to gay couples. That includes Christian ministries, which, in many cases are shutting down their operations rather than compromise their convictions. Now a proposed law before the Senate would make nondiscrimination against gay
Where I live, we are just voting today for local elections. We just have a state senator to pick and a number of county offices. But for the last several months we have been subject to getting multiple automated phone calls a day conducting polls,
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