Around the time Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was conducting his brutal medical experiments on human beings, some American scientists were doing pretty much the same thing: U.S. government researchers who purposely infected unwitting subjects with sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala in the 1940s had obtained
My long-time friend Leland Ryken has an excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal on the King James translation of the Bible, which marks its 400th anniversary this year. After telling about how the new king of England granted only one of the Puritans’ requests–to
There is that passage in Matthew 16 in which Jesus says that there are among those listening to him at that moment who will not taste death until He comes in His kingdom. Liberal Bible critics say, “See, Jesus and the early church thought that
The latest violation of the Commandment regarding honoring your father and your mother (though the divorced father is behind it): Raised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills home by their attorney father, two grown children have spent the last two years pursuing a unique lawsuit
Guy Walters discusses the Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Brevik and argues that he is not necessarily insane at all, that certain convictions can make it quite logical to commit evil actions. In doing so, he quotes from a speech by Heinrich Himmler, who makes the case
Our week that began with an earthquake ended with a hurricane. But, as it happened, the latest graphic of Hurricane Irene’s path showed the outer edge of the system passing by just 15 or so miles away. So it really missed us. We had some
New York Times editor Bill Keller came up with a series of questions about religion that he is asking presidential candidates, an inquisition necessary in order to ferret out, among other things, which ones doubt the doctrines of evolution, the equivalence of all religions, and
Some economists are suggesting that a cure for our economic woes would be for the government to purposefully create inflation. Robert Samuelson explains: The idea now is that the Fed would pump money into the economy until inflation — a rise in most prices, not
What we heard from Pastor Douthwaite on Sunday, preaching on Matthew 16:21-28: “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” Ouch. Poor Peter. He meant
The Lutheran blogosphere has been in a state of disturbance since the disappearance of Anthony Sacramone. When you go to his blog site, Strange Herring, a window comes up that says that it is available by invitation only. Since no one has an invitation, that
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