While browsing through the bookstore at Concordia Publishing House at my final board meeting, I came across a book entitled Understanding Four Views on the Lord’s Supper (Counterpoints: Church Life). It featured a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran, a Calvinist, and a Baptist reflecting on each
Ethicist Peter Singer–he who believes in the killing of the handicapped and unwanted but born children but not animals–takes up the question of whether living is worth it. He is reviewing, in the New York Times, a book by philosopher David Benatar entitled Better Never
A cautionary tale about being too cautious: [Ron] Wayne, 76, was present at the birth of cool April 1, 1976: Co-founder, along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, of Apple Computer Inc., Wayne designed the company’s original logo, wrote the manual for the Apple I
There is a new morning after pill that prevents a fertilized embryo from attaching to the mother’s womb, an abortifacient that pro-deathers want made available over-the-counter. What I’d like to concentrate on, though, is this reporter’s framing of the issue. Consider especially this last sentence:
The Washington Post reviews two Books on geoengineering: ‘How to Cool the Planet’ and ‘Hacking the Planet’. The idea is that since human beings have caused global warming, we can put other stuff into the environment to cool the planet down: As the prospect of
Greek food critic Diane Kochilas traces her country’s cultural ups and downs of the last few decades by examining its cuisine: The Athens I knew in the 1970s and ’80s was a provincial city of bougainvillea-draped neighborhood tavernas, mostly family-run, that were cheap enough to
No, this is not another post about the Sacrament. Flying home on United yesterday, I read an interesting article in the airline magazine on “umami.” Our tastebuds can perceive five different taste sensations, the combination of which–along with texture and temperature–constitutes all of the different
The whole world is caught up in the excitement of the World Cup, the global championship of soccer. This is a true world series, involving virtually every nation in the world, all of whom care passionately about it. Except the United States! We have a
Aaron Rosen, in the atheist magazine New Humanist, acknowledges that much of Western art reflects Christianity. The iconography, themes, and vocabulary of images derives not just from religion in general, but, very specifically, from the Christian faith. Somehow, he says, the figure of Christ is
Well, I just finished my last board meeting at Concordia Publishing House. When I was first elected by the LCMS convention back in 1998, I did not realize that the term of office was the same as the U.S. Senate, 6 years! Then I got
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