For the problems in America’s schools, I do not blame the students, or their parents, or even the culture. I blame university education departments. They constantly spin our theories and turn out teachers trained in implementing them. But they tend to be oblivious that many
How about this for a defiant, death-defying public confession of faith? The Christians of northern Iraq have chosen to defy mounting attacks by extremists by erecting a statue of Jesus modelled on the giant Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. The sculpture is only
The Swedish dissident pastor Fredrik Sidenvall’s paper on “Confessing the Faith in an Anti-Christian Culture,” which was delivered on his behalf at the recent Congress on the Lutheran Confessions in Minneapolis offered a fascinating Biblical and Confessional study of what is meant by “Antichrist.” In
Someone asked me that question today. Is it just the current political climate? Don’t shady practices interfere with the free market system? After all, the stock market has regulations to make sure it operates as it should. Why shouldn’t we regulate these other financial markets
What is significant in this story is not that super-scientist Stephen Hawkings now believes in aliens–and warns us not to go looking for them–but the statement by the astronomer royal: The aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to
I was at the Congress on the Lutheran Confessions in Minneapolis last week, giving a paper on how those confessions teach the doctrine of vocation. I had to zip in and out, missing most of the conference (though it did prevent me from posting anything
That is the headline in an article in “The Atlantic”: The above headline might seem like a joke. It isn’t. Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were surfing Internet pornography when they should have been policing the financial system. A deeply disturbing SEC
The Oklahoma Sooners, from my alma mater, had a miserable season last year by the standards of the University of Oklahoma, an 8-5 record. And yet my home state just dominated the NFL draft. Not only was OU quarterback Sam Bradford, who sat out most
Booklover raised the ante on yesterday’s post about books that have influenced your political beliefs, asking if a book CHANGED your views, or just confirmed what you already believed. Let’s ramp it up even more: Has there been a book that changed your life in
Now that America is going the way of Europe in our economy, politics, and institutions, get ready for this one: An overseas holiday used to be thought of as a reward for a year’s hard work. Now Brussels [the capital of the European Union] has
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