Well, I thought the eight presidential candidates trying to get the Republican convention did well in their debate last night. I hadn’t heard Perry before, and he came across well. I was pleasantly surprised with Huntsman, who played the optimism card (though he lost me
Michael Hannon uses a Luther quotation to get at the essential difference between liberalism and conservatism. (And he concludes that Luther is right.) “Peace if possible, truth at all costs!” Thus heralded Martin Luther half a millennium ago, and let no man accuse him of
We have entered an era, according to Greg Jaffe, of endless war: In previous decades, the military and the American public viewed war as an aberration and peace as the norm. Today, radical religious ideologies, new technologies and cheap, powerful weapons have catapulted the world
More great preaching from our pastor, Rev. Douthwaite, on the text Matthew 18:1-20. Read it all. Here is the beginning and the end. Notice how the law passages are all brought down on Jesus: In common thinking, the phase of life called childhood is something
That Mayor Bloomberg is not inviting clergy to participate in the ten year anniversary events marking the 9/11 anniversary has provoked not a little outrage. But Lutheran pastor William Cwirla presents a contrary view: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned clergy from participating in
Some people have made such a contribution in one way or the other that their names pass into the language. The Washington Post has an interesting feature that takes up some of these names and argues that the actual person was different from the adjective
Here is a rather more optimistic assessment of the economy, based on the plans of America’s business executives. I cite it, though, for the figure of speech in the final paragraph: Washington policymakers are entering a crucial period for the nation’s stalling economy, starting with
This blog has, for a number of years, been engaged in a crusade to co-opt the secular Labor Day and to get it on the church calendar as a holiday that celebrates the Christian doctrine of vocation. I think it is working. I’ve been hearing
Your theme for Labor Day, I mean, Vocation Day: What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he
Charles Krauthammer, taking a break from bemoaning the state of the world, devoted a column to baseball, specifically to the defensive plays made by a few members of the otherwise hapless but improving Washington Nationals. I love his descriptions: When you live in a town
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