As workers finally manage to cap the leaking oil well in the Gulf, some scientists have reached conclusions about what happened to all of that spilled oil: Nearly three-fourths of oil from the BP (BP.L)(BP.N) spill is gone from the Gulf of Mexico, with 26
The intellectual, academic world, according to some observers, has become “postsecular.” Scholars are now factoring back in the importance of religion. And yet this too has its divisions between those who favor a multi-faith religious pluralism and the advocates of “radical orthodoxy”–a sophisticated application of
It looks like the Islamic cultural center being proposed for construction near the site where the World Trade Center stood before 9/11 will be built: Plans to build an Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center site moved forward after New York City’s Landmarks
To celebrate the doctrine of vocation and as a build up to Labor Day, let us consider Interesting Jobs. Here is one: Major league baseball interpreter. An interpreter’s job can be consuming, from taking phone calls from a confused player in a grocery store aisle
Ray Bradbury is not just a great science fiction writer. He is a great writer, period. And he is a man of some-kind-of faith: The 89-year-old science fiction author watches Fox News Channel by day, Turner Classic Movies by night. He spends the rest of
Joe Carter reflects on the meaning and practice of “evangelism”: The term derives from the Greek word evangel: good news. How odd then that so much evangelism appears to be about selling Jesus and hoping that you can convince the unsaved heathen to buy into
If you are reading this, we must have survived the storm on the sun that is sending plasma right at us: Earth is bracing for a cosmic tsunami Tuesday night as tons of plasma from a massive solar flare head directly toward the planet. The
Some may consider that phrase a contradiction in terms. But a new book contains the stories of various people who converted to Christianity as proclaimed in Lutheranism. It’s called Wittenberg Confessions: Testimonies of Converts to Confessional Lutheranism, by Jim Pierce, Edited by Elaine Gavin. I mention
Some scholars are thinking that the Dead Sea Scrolls, those ancient texts that include some of the oldest copies of the Old Testament, may not have been the property of the Jewish sect known as the Essenes. They might have come from the Temple itself:
So says the president: President Obama outlined the changing U.S. role in Iraq on Monday to an organization of disabled veterans, saying that beginning next month the more-than-seven-year war effort will change from a primarily military enterprise to a diplomatic one. “The hard truth is
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