We had a wonderful Palm Sunday service, and the sermon was on a text that I don’t think I’ve ever noticed before, Deuteronomy 32:36-39. Moses says that “When he sees that their power is gone,” that is the time when “the Lord will vindicate his
We had a wonderful Palm Sunday service, and the sermon was on a text that I don’t think I’ve ever noticed before, Deuteronomy 32:36-39. Moses says that “When he sees that their power is gone,” that is the time when “the Lord will vindicate his
As I mentioned, I’ve been doing a series of interviews on Issues, Etc., about the new edition of my book Spirituality of the Cross Revised Edition. When we were talking about my chapter on Vocation, the producers were playing some music to go along with
Spring training! Hope springs anew. Even for the Washington Nationals, last place though they were last year. They stocked up on promising young pitchers and signed the aging future Hall of Famer Ivan Rodriguez to catch them. And the pitching phenomenon Steven Strasburg they drafted
Religion journalist Julia Duin reports on church giving during the recession: The nation’s churches are staggering under the depressed economy, with more than one-third reporting decreases in giving last year, according to a survey. A “State of the Plate” survey of 1,017 churches sponsored by
The veteran civil rights activist Roy Innis is blasting the administration for the way its policies to combat the alleged global warming are devastating Africa: The president signed an executive order requiring that the Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC) and other federal agencies reduce greenhouse
We have posted about the conflict between still-communist China and Google. The “Washington Post” has obtained a translation of the instructions from the Chinese government to its web journalists and bloggers, explaining what they will not be allowed to talk about. From China’s instructions on
Today is Annunciation Day, celebrating the day the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her that she would bear, through the Holy Spirit, Christ the Savior. Think of the implications of this conception: Christ the embryo, Christ the Fetus! Here is Luther preaching on
Ruth Marcus BELIEVES in the new health care reform law. But she points out that no one knows exactly what it will do: If I were a member of Congress, my floor speech before casting a yes vote would have boiled down to: Gee, I
The Church of Christ, Scientist, founded by Mary Baker Eddy, teaches the gnostic and Buddhist/Hindu notion that evil, including sickness, is an illusion, which can be dispelled by proper thinking and meditation. The Christian Scientist movement used to be quite popular among the nation’s upper