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Here is an unusually lucid and helpful piece of journalism, explaining exactly what the new credit card law will do: Credit cards then and now: A look at how the new law changes the rules – latimes.com. Here is an even more lucid and helpful
I am very glad to see a post from Anthony Sacramone–a.k.a. Luther and the Movies and Strange Herring– at First Thoughts and wish he would start up another blog of his own, so much have I missed his madcap theologizing. But this post I don’t
Two important Christian institutions of higher education have appointed new presidents. Baylor University has chosen Ken Starr. Best known as the special prosecutor in the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair, Starr has been a law school administrator at Pepperdine with loads of academic credentials. This still
I am greatly intrigued by unintended consequences, odd connections, and strangely related events. In a book about health care, Thomas Goetz explains how the Beatles were to blame for our rising health care costs. Back in 1955, a small electronics company named EMI bought Capitol
At our Bible class last Sunday, someone told this story. I suspect it comes from Japan, especially since the person said that he first heard it from Dr. Masaki of Concordia Theological Seminary. A farmer had a horse break out of the fence and run
The story above is kind of Zen, but how would you apply it as an example of Christian wisdom?
A group of conservative leaders have issued a manifesto entitled The Mount Vernon Statement, which attempts to define what political conservatism is all about. Excerpts: A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is
Is this possible? A Vatican official has floated the idea of a shared “ecumenical catechism” as one of the potential fruits of 40 years of dialogue among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of the Reformed churches. “We have affirmed our common foundation in Jesus
The Egyptians believed their pharoahs were gods. As such, they could not marry mere mortals but had to marry others of divine blood within their own families. Even Akhenaten, who promoted a kind of monotheism that taught that the Sun was the only god, followed
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