Luther and the Lutheran Confessions (explaining “thou shalt not commit adultery”) on the problems of forbidding marriage for the clergy, and how this manifests itself in sexual sins: Priests, monks, and nuns resist God’s order and commandment, inasmuch as they despise and forbid matrimony, and
The President has announced a new nuclear weapons policy, which includes not developing any new ones and promising not to use nukes to retaliate against a non-nuclear attack, even one that uses biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction. From Obama Limits When U.S. Would
Have you heard about the Christian militia cult known as the Hutaree? They have been busted as domestic terrorists. [David] Stone and eight other suspected Hutaree members, self-proclaimed “Christian warriors” who trained themselves in paramilitary techniques in preparation for a battle against the Antichrist, are
It was tODD, who is politically more liberal than most denizens of this blog (though arguably more theologically conservative than most denizens of this blog, Wisconsin Synod Lutheran that he is), who urged me to post something about the Hutaree (above). That started an e-mail
Michael Spencer, a.k.a. Internet Monk, has died of cancer. (Not to be confused with our own commenter on this blog Webmonk, who is still alive.) His <a href=”http://www.internetmonk.com/”>blog</a>, subtitled “Dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness,” was a favorite site for honest theological and spiritual discussions. A
Yoga construed as just a physical exercise is probably fine. But some people are emphasizing its religious content. And some Christians are trying to make that religious content Christian. Christian pop music played quietly in the background as instructor Bryan Brock led a recent yoga
That is the question in today’s film industry. “Avatar” was a huge hit, with ground-breaking technological innovations that brought 3-D filmmaking back to life. But now scores of movie makers are rushing to convert movies already in the can to 3-D. That’s what happened with
Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things, points out that the cases of the pedophile priests come from the 1970s, when theological liberalism was rampant in Catholicism. He says that the lack of recent cases reflect a more conservative church and a generation of more faithful
David Koyzis has a fascinating post on that question. Other languages call the festival of Christ’s resurrection some version of the Aramaic word for “Passover,” namely, “Pascha.” This is a good Biblical term. But the Germans call it “Ostern” and the English call it “Eastern.”
George Will has a great column on the unwritten rules of baseball: With the Twins seven runs ahead in the bottom of the eighth, with two outs and no one on and a 3-0 count, Hunter had swung hard at a pitch. According to baseball’s
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