Walter Russell Mead at the American Interest invokes Luther’s reforms and claims that the church today needs another structural reformation: The Christian churches in the United States are in trouble for all the usual reasons — human sinfulness and selfishness, the temptations of life in
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. As a result, this is traditionally the day known as Fat Tuesday, during which people indulged in whatever they were going to give up for Lent. That devolved into the decadent hedonism associated with carnival or Mardi
If you haven’t heard, U.S., allied, and Afghan national troops are engaged in a major, large-scale operation in Afghanistan, attacking the region in which the Taliban are at their greatest strength. U.S. launches major surge against Taliban in Afghanistan – washingtonpost.com.
I am not for a minute condoning the Evangelical, Catholic, and Voodoo interfaith services, nor am I agreeing that Haiti’s earthquake was divine punishment against its government. But in the aftermath of the earthquake, it appears that Haitians are in a mood to cast off
On Saturday, I posted something about the release of the new revised version of my book Spirituality of the Cross, in which I told about the changes, explained what I was trying to do, and said a few things about how the book has reached
Happy Presidents Day. And yet, what are celebrating? The holiday was originally to commemorate the birthday of George Washington, a man who certainly deserves such an honor. Then what we might call semantic inflation clicked in: What started as a specific day of the year
Do you think the Canadian Olympics Committee was culpable in the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili on the luge track? The Mounties ruled that the death was due not so much to the track, though it had already been criticized as way too fast, but to
This chapter of Climategate scandal is even bigger yet. Prof. Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia is the guy whose e-mails were leaked. Now he admits that he can’t find the data that he used to create the famous “hockey stick” graph and
The new revised, enhanced, and slightly expanded edition of my book The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals has just been released by Concordia Publishing House. That book has brought lots of people into the Lutheran orbit. More than that, it
Maddy Curtis, the 16-year-old from around here who became an “American Idol” contestant whom I have been blogging about was cut in the Hollywood round. Ironically, that happened the very day her initial Boston audition was aired, so that her acclaim began at the very
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