Many liberals are turning on President Obama’s administration and the Democratic-held congress. From the Associated Press: Progressive activists who helped elect Barack Obama president complained on Monday that the administration and congressional Democrats have been too timid and too willing to compromise. Even though Obama’s
A common notion in studies of Christianity and the arts is “the sacramental imagination.” It goes like this: Christians with a high view of the sacraments believe that spiritual realities are mediated by means of physical things. Christian artists with those beliefs, therefore, can easily
Pass right-to-die legislation, allowing patients to choose physician-assisted-suicide, and what do you get? In Belgium, at least, doctors are killing almost as many patients who do not ask to die as those who do. See Wesley J. Smith, Almost as Many Non Voluntary Euthanasia Deaths
Dennis Mitzner tries to explain the odd alliance between the hard-core left and Islamic jihadists (evident especially in Europe), despite the latter’s attitude towards women, homosexuality, etc., etc. An excerpt: Since the left views Muslims as part of their struggle against Western hegemony, they are
A funeral can be a great help to people who are grieving. A funeral can also make matters worse. A funeral can be built around the strong Word of God, helping people face death, while serving as a catalyst whereby sorrow is resolved into hope.
George Will reviews a book that seems to go to the heart of the difference between conservatism and progressivism: Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State Today, as it has been for a century, American politics is an argument between two Princetonians — James Madison, Class
The umpire’s. . . . An umpire’s tears and admission he blew a call failed to move baseball commissioner Bud Selig to award Armando Galarraga the perfect game he pitched. The play and its aftermath quickly became the talk of the sports world and beyond,
Well, our trip to Oklahoma has taken a different turn. We came here to celebrate my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary. The day we got to Oklahoma, though, we learned that my wife’s father’s wife–who had been in the hospital for a relatively minor operation–caught an
Some politicians want to set public policy according to the teachings of the Word. In doing so, they are trying to set up a theocratic government. Right now, the most powerful of these Christian Taliban is evidently Nancy Pelosi. Here is what the pro-abortion Speaker
This is shaping up to be a busy summer for me, with lots of travelling, for business, for pleasure, and for business and pleasure. We set out today for Oklahoma and my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary celebration, to be followed by my last Concordia Publishing
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