This year Good Friday falls on April 22, which is also the new environmentalist holiday of Earth Day. (It is also “89ers’ Day,” the anniversary of the Oklahoma Land Run in 1889, as all of my fellow Oklahomans should know.) Some churches, usually of the
Did you realize that you were buried in the tomb with Jesus? And that on Easter morning when He rose from the dead, you did too? That’s what your baptism accomplished, according to the Bible: “having been buried with him in baptism, in which you
The charge is that the word “Easter” derives from the name of a pagan fertility goddess “Eostre.” It is said that Christians took over a spring festival devoted to this deity. But this article by British historian Anthony McRoy debunks that claim: Was Easter Borrowed
Today is Maundy Thursday, when Passion Week takes off. In particular, this is the commemoration of the Last Supper of our Lord with His disciples, at which He instituted the sacrament of Holy Communion. We Lutherans, of course, consider that the bread and wine convey
In a review of Robert Redford’s new movie The Conspirator, about the plot to kill Lincoln, Ann Hornaday makes an interesting point, that one of the major patriotic ideals for which many Americans died in the Civil War–namely, the Union–is nearly always denigrated in movies
This would harmonize an alleged inconsistency in the inerrant Bible: Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University says discrepancies in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke as compared with John arose because they used an older calendar than the official Jewish one. He concluded the date
Katherine Jean Lopez quotes from “O, Beautiful,” a play by Theresa Rebeck, which is getting praise in the New York Times: ‘This is a loving, caring Jesus,” is how the director of a play involving abortion described a leading man to the New York Times.
A news story in the Washington Post follows the Democratic party line in complaining that the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes. But notice how the facts get in the way of the thesis! As millions of procrastinators scramble to meet Monday’s tax-filing
Fred Sanders sheds some light on what “Protestant” means on the anniversary of the Protestation of Speyer, which was yesterday: Today (April 19) is the anniversary of the 1529 Protestation of Speyer, which is generally regarded as the first time that the word “Protestant” was
Remember how government bonds have been considered a sure investment because they are backed by “the full faith and credit” of the United States of America? Well, the Standard & Poor bond rating agency is having its doubts about what our government’s “full faith and
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