There apparently ARE atheists in foxholes, and they are demanding their own chaplains. From the New York Times: In the military, there are more than 3,000 chaplains who minister to the spiritual and emotional needs of active duty troops, regardless of their faiths. The vast
Hey, thanks for all of the kind words defending this blog and its look. I don’t feel so bad now. Some good ideas were generated, and we’ll see what might be possible as far as tweaking things.
Set aside the pastor being a woman. Set aside the tattoos. Set aside the social justice stuff. Well, you’ll have to set aside quite a bit. But what’s striking here is that the latest star of the “emergent church” (congregations trying to reach trendy
The future king of England, Prince William, is getting married to the future queen, presently the commoner Catherine Middleton. This will happen really early in the morning, American time, on Friday in Westminster Abbey. Now Republicans believe in a republic and Democrats believe in democracy.
Christians sometimes sit around hoping that if we just had a hit movie that would communicate the Biblical worldview we would impact the culture and bring the secularists to Christ. Ayn Rand fans, despite their atheism, apparently have the same fantasies. The much-anticipated movie version
Redeemed Rambling is hating on this blog, criticizing our graphic design! This is what he says about Cranach: Ugly. Mixed web 1.0 and 2.0 graphics give the site a weird feel. The posts and comments sometimes display wrong. Definitely a content-centric blog, but that doesn’t
The Supreme Court is taking up what some are describing as the most important religious liberty case in decades. And it involves a Lutheran school whose church fired a called teacher. From Notre Dame law school professor Richard Garnett: In a nutshell, Hosanna-Tabor is a
Two articles take apart the language of political rhetoric: Arthur Brooks examines the way the Democrats invoke the concept of “fairness” and shows that there is more to justice than just taking from the rich: Obama says it’s only ‘fair’ to raise taxes on the
President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, said that taxpayers would soon be able to access an online “receipt” to show what all your taxes are paying for. That site is now up, and it’s kind of interesting: Your 2010 Federal Taxpayer Receipt
A pejorative term directed against some congregations is that they are “a dying church.” Either because most of their members are elderly or because they don’t get a lot of new members or because they don’t seem exciting enough. I have always thought that this
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