I’ve been studying Anglicanism lately. But then I’ve run up against the Black Rubric, so-called because it was printed in bold type in the Book of Common Prayer. It enjoins kneeling while receiving the Sacrament, but goes on to deny explicitly any kind of real,
In addition to my other pessimistic predictions, I am thinking that liberal ideology will soon return to popularity. Here is a forceful statement by the liberal law professor and Obama administration regulator Elizabeth Warren, now running for Scott Brown’s Senate seat in Massachusetts: “There is
Ezra Klein argues that neither presidents nor congress, no matter which party, will be able to do much to influence the economy. What will either pull us down further or bring improvement is what happens in Europe. And so, if the state of the economy
Following up on last week’s post and video of the The McGurk Effect, it would seem that we have in this demonstration of how the mind alters what we hear some empirical evidence to support the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Which is ironic because Kant’s
“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
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