It’s hard to decipher what Mitch McConnell’s plan to deal with the debt ceiling even is, if you just go by the vague news reports and the wildly opposed or enthusiastic descriptions of it by both advocates and foes, both of whom exist among both
It’s hard to decipher what Mitch McConnell’s plan to deal with the debt ceiling even is, if you just go by the vague news reports and the wildly opposed or enthusiastic descriptions of it by both advocates and foes, both of whom exist among both
British journalist Matthew Engel complains about how American words–“Americanisms”– are contaminating British English: Lengthy. Reliable. Talented. Influential. Tremendous. All of these words we use without a second thought were never part of the English language until the establishment of the United States. The Americans imported
OK, I realize that I am late to this particular party, but I finally have an iPhone. I’ve used it for awhile and liked it, but recently my sister has introduced me to the world of applications. That is to say, “apps.” I now have
John at Redeemed Rambling, a Reformed Baptist, maintains that many conservative Christians are talking so much about sexual immorality that they are obscuring the Gospel: To my brothers, I have this plea: please stop with the sexual moralism. True Christianity finds its all in the
Archaeologists have been excavating the city of Gath and learning details about the Israelite’s arch-enemy the Philistines: The Philistines arrived by sea from the area of modern-day Greece around 1200 B.C. They went on to rule major ports at Ashkelon and Ashdod, now cities in
Journalist Asra Q. Nomani, writing in USA Today, is calling for the government to enforce anti-discrimination laws against religious organizations, denying them tax-exempt status if they discriminate against women. She is thinking of her fellow Muslims, but the proposal also would apply to Christians. Her
So President Obama offered $4 trillion in budgetary cuts if the Republicans would accept a tax increase on the higher brackets. House Speaker Boehner rejected increasing anyone’s taxes, indicating that he would accept a $ 2.4 trillion trim in cuts alone. Talks between President Obama
I am very excited about the publication of Thomas Korcok’s Lutheran Education: From Wittenberg to the Future. It supplies what has long been needed: a history of classical Christian education as practiced in the Reformation tradition. Dr. Korcok shows that the Lutheran approach to education
Sociologist Peter Berger (an ELCA Lutheran), after surveying the overwhelming data that religious people have more children than the non-religious do, offers this explanation: Religion has always given its adherents a sense of living in a meaningful universe. This protects individuals from what sociologists call
Postmodernists are opposed to “essentialism,” the notion that ANYTHING is innate or predetermined. Thus I have found it interesting that when it comes to homosexuality, the prevailing argument is that this condition IS innate and predetermined. I have been waiting for signs that postmodernism is
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