Joe Carter reports on a study that shows that atheists are angry at a God they don’t believe exists. Or, rather, their anger at God motivated them not to believe in Him: A new set of studies in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Joe Carter reports on a study that shows that atheists are angry at a God they don’t believe exists. Or, rather, their anger at God motivated them not to believe in Him: A new set of studies in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
The Lord of the Rings is another tale about vocation, as John Ortberg realizes: My daughter and I were re-watching Lord of the Rings before Christmas. At one point, on the last part of the journey through Mordor, Frodo turns to Sam and tells him
This is from a couple of years ago, but Carl Vehse just found it and brought it to my attention. It’s from Pastor Petersen at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Ft. Wayne, IN. It’s an account of vocation gone wild: I recently had a mild encounter
Thanks to FWS who pointed us to this post from LCMS president Matthew Harrison quoting the German theologian and enemy of Nazism Hermann Sasse (who quotes Werner Elert): Werner Elert repeatedly drew our attention to the fundamental difference between the Roman Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran
The Australian state of Queensland is half again as big as Texas, the size of France and Germany combined. A third of it is under water. The flooding is being described as “apocalyptic.” Now the waters are threatening Brisbane, Australia’s third largest city. Efforts are
Conservative polemics are being blamed for the shooting in Tucson that critically wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed nine others, including a judge and a little girl. The killer shows clear symptoms of insanity, though, and was evidently motivated by schizophrenia rather than politics. And
A new edition of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn will leave out all of the N-words, which have caused some people to charge the novel with racism, even though the point of the book is to combat racism. From a CNN report: What is a word
Something really interesting from Wikipedia: An extensive List of common misconceptions in history, science, religion, sports, travel, and technology. The list includes my pet peeve, the myth that the ancients believed that the earth is flat, as well as many similar urban legends and scholarly
We saw True Grit over the weekend, the Coen brothers’ rendition of the novel by Charles Portis, which had also been made into a movie that earned John Wayne an Oscar. I’m a fan of the novel and both movies, including this one. The John
U. S. passport applications will no longer ask for “mother” and “father.” Instead, they will ask for “parent one” and “parent two.” From the Washington Post: Goodbye, Mom and Dad. Hello, Parent One and Parent Two. The State Department has decided to make U.S. passport
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