Part of the new federal health care plan will be funded by cuts to Medicare, the existing government program that pays for health care for the elderly. Already, though, an increasing number of doctors are refusing to take on Medicare patients because the payments are
Are you an Eskimo from Alaska? Are you part Eskimo? Do you know an Eskimo? (That term, by the way, according to Wikipedia is NOT pejorative when referring to the Alaskan tribes.) If so, you can start a company and get a government contract without
It’s Advent! I love how the Advent hymns, Scripture readings, and sermons focus on all of the different senses of Jesus’s coming to us. Yes, we look forward to His coming in the events of Christmas. But we also study the Old Testament prophecies of
The Religious News Service reports on a study about how many Americans have a prayer of thanksgiving before meals: These days, 44 percent of Americans report saying grace or a similar blessing almost every day before eating; 46 percent almost never say it, leaving just
We went to the movies over Thanksgiving weekend and saw Megamind. The animated parody of the superhero genre featured a supervillain who finds himself turning good. It’s actually kind of Augustinian (existence is good, so evil is a privation of being). It was also quite
Might justification by faith end up as just another weird idea those Lutherans believe? That teaching–that we are declared righteous because of the Cross of Jesus Christ–used to be common to all Protestants, but it is under attack today, not just by liberal theologians but
Glen Beck has been pushing his conspiracy theories. Now the liberals are doing it. They are unable to imagine that there is anything wrong with their president or with their economic theories. So many of them believe that the Republicans and their business allies, to
Tim Challies gives us more big numbers: Seven hundred billion minutes. That’s how much time Facebook’s 500 million active users spend on the site every month. 700,000,000,000 minutes. Let that one sink in for a moment. Every month we spend the equivalent of 1.3 million
You’ve got to read Mollie Hemingway’s column on gratitude in Christianity Today. Excerpts: Appearing on Conan O’Brien’s show last year, comedian Louis C. K. lamented how frustrated people get when cell phones and cross-country flights are slow or faulty. “Everything is amazing right now and
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