Remember our recent discussion about “Where are the Lutherans?”, responding to another blog complaining that Lutherans are invisible in the evangelical world? Well, here is a post from Tullian Tchividjian. He is a Reformed pastor, the grandson of Billy Graham and the successor to the late
A speaker at the National Press Club called for making religion central to our foreign policy. He made a lot of sense at first, but then fell off the deep end: The best way to address Jihadist terrorism is to make religion a central component
Theology may be bringing down Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. So says Karim Sadjadpour, writing in the Washington Post: While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s demagoguery and Holocaust revisionism on the world stage have earned him alarmist comparisons to Adolf Hitler, his recent, ignoble fall from grace reveals
Philosopher Edward Feser clears us misconceptions about the cosmological argument for the existence of God: 1. The argument does NOT rest on the premise that “Everything has a cause.” Lots of people – probably most people who have an opinion on the matter – think
Are you following the scandal swirling around media magnate Rupert Murdoch’s empire, which includes The Wall Street Journal and Fox News, just to name two of his American holdings? It seems reporters from his British tabloid News of the World have been caught hacking into
The great pitcher Roger Clemens testified before a Congressional hearing that he had not used steroids. But then came evidence that he had. So he was brought to trial for perjury. The prosecution used hearsay evidence that the judge told them not to
You’ve got to read Mollie Hemingway on the Lutheran/anti-Christ controversy, in which she notes the irony of the media becoming indignant over the “anti-Catholic bias” of the Lutheran confessions, while they themselves savage Roman Catholic beliefs at every opportunity. An excerpt: Also, you’re kidding me
The teaching that got Michele Bachmann into trouble–that the papacy is the antichrist– and made her leave Lutheranism in order to be a creditable presidential candidate (see the other post for today) is not limited to the Wisconsin Synod. It is a tenet of the
It is now official, I guess. Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann left the Wisconsin Synod shortly before running for president. This, as the press started portraying the conservative Lutheran denomination as a weird cult for believing that the Pope is the antichrist and that homosexuality is
Republican presidential candidates keep getting asked to sign pledges–not to raise taxes, to oppose abortion, etc.–in order to get the support of key voters. The latest is a pledge about marriage that goes on to include stances on various issues of sexual morality. Signers must
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