Like many ancient Israelites before the exile, more and more Christians think they can add pagan beliefs to Christianity. Here are some findings from The Pew Forum: Mixing religions: Many Americans have beliefs or experiences that conflict with basic Christian doctrines. People who say they
Just as some Westerners have started advocating laws to prevent families from having more than one child, China is having second thoughts as it is facing the consequences of its one-child policy, which it enforced with mandatory abortions: More than 30 years after China's one-child
The House has sent to the Senate a bill to regulate the financial industry, leading to a telling quotation from a Congressman who aspires to controlling our economy. From the Washington Post: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who guided the bill through the House Financial Services
Did you watch “30 Rock” the other day and hear a cryptic reference to someone you faintly recall hearing of recently? Well, remember how I mentioned Lutheran journalist and conservative pundit Mark Hemingway the other day? Well, he’s made it to the big time: having
Have you seen the “Receive Jesus” ad on national television? (I can’t find it on the web. If any of you can find it, please post a link.) It has a rather cool-looking guy with a goatee and a black t-shirt against a white background.
At the Copenhagen global warming conclave, the Chinese are pushing another approach to cutting down carbon emissions: population control. As you read this, keep in mind what China does, enforcing the “one child” policy by forced abortions: Population and climate change are intertwined but the
Congratulations to President Barack Obama for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. By awarding the prize to a wartime president who is presiding over two wars and has just ordered an escalation in one of them, the Nobel Prize Committee may be setting
Tulane physicist Frank J. Tipler tosses off an interesting variation, using contemporary mathematics and physics, of a classic proof of God’s existence. Then he criticizes the relativism of many of his colleagues: Last week I was on a university panel formed to debate the issue
Another way to make your church relevant! Preach a whole sermon series about tattoos. And during the sermon, have someone actually getting a tattoo so the whole congregation can watch. From the Tuscaloosa News: The sight of a woman being tattooed live on the altar
Congress has taken a step towards interfering in how colleges declare a national championship in football. From the Associated Press: A House subcommittee has approved legislation aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine a national champion. The bill would
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