“I am a proud member of the Church of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is my Lord and savior. He redeemed me fully and completely. He is the only reason that I am able to stand here today. I am a proud member of that faith,
“I am a proud member of the Church of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is my Lord and savior. He redeemed me fully and completely. He is the only reason that I am able to stand here today. I am a proud member of that faith,
The Values Voters Summit is a convention of Christian political activists that takes place in Washington, D. C., each year. This weekend the various Republican presidential candidates came hat in hand. After their presentations, a straw poll was conducted. The winner with 37% of the
Watching baseballl playoff games is intense, especially if you have a horse in the race. I was following every pitch and, due to time zones and having to record games, staying up until 1:00 a.m. But what games they were! The Milwaukee Brewers, whose games
A week or so ago I posted “The Faith to be Idle,” something Dan Kempin wrote about our need to stop working so much. It provoked some good discussion also. I want to call your attention to something Larry Hughes wrote in a comment, since I
I was asked to write up something about the death of Steve Jobs for the Lutheran Witness website. I’ll link to that when it goes up. In the meantime, here is something in today’s Washington Post that I think is very telling about the man’s
As the number of co-habiting couples skyrockets, a new legal problem has come to the fore: What to do when the couples split up? From an article in the Washington Post: A study by the Pew Research Center found that 39 percent of Americans think
Here are two different framings of the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC case that was just heard before the Supreme Court. The first shows why so many religious groups are backing the LCMS school: Washington Wants a Say Over Your Minister–Wall Street
Rich Shipe, longtime reader and commenter on this blog, referred to this video in a chapel message that he gave, making the point that our perceptions often fall far short of the truth. I had to show it to all of you. (As you watch,
Science Daily reports on a Canadian study of homeschooling, one that comes across as objective and unbiased, finding that kids homeschooled with a structured curriculum really do perform better than their public school peers. “Unschooling,” though, the approach to homeschooling that is even more progressive
Yet another potential Republican candidate that some people were hoping might enter the fray has said, “no.” Sarah Palin has announced that she will not run. On top of that, Florida governor Marco Rubio has he won’t even accept a nomination for Vice-President. Over 300
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