A Los Angeles fertility clinic is advertising a service that will allow parents to select their baby’s physical appearance: A US clinic has sparked controversy by offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like the eye and hair colour of their offspring. The LA
Updating the recent post about President Obama being willing to give in to Russian demands to keep DEFENSIVE missiles out of Poland in return for Russian help to keep Iran from going nuclear. Now that Vladimir Putin has won the main concession, he is rubbing
This next section of Luther’s THE SMALL CATECHISM is controversial to non-Lutherans, though I wonder what they do with John 20:22-23. Confession and absolution is simply a personal application of the Gospel. It is very powerful in giving pastoral care to someone in need of
I’ve been critical on this blog of how President Obama is trying to fix the economy. But I’d like to hear from all sides. I’d be glad to hear someone making a case for how this could possibly work. And I don’t want to leave
Jim Wallis, the liberal evangelical who edits Sojourners, gives what he calls , "Our Moral Audit of the Budget." He greatly approves, saying that President Obama's economic policies are, in effect, more Christian than Republican budgets. Read what he says, after the break. Do you agree that the religious test of any budget is how it treats the poor? What does he mean by "fairness"?
The Wall Street Journal argues that President Obama's bailouts, stimulus, and budget are making the economic crisis worse and are stifling the recovery. Read the argument after the break. Do you agree that the president is provoking a "capitalist strike"? Is this free market take on the economy immoral? How is this "fair"?
The next part in our blog series on Luther’s SMALL CATECHISM deals with Baptism. I have heard it said that Lutherans do not really believe in justification by grace through faith because Baptism is a WORK. I have also heard it said that Lutherans do
According to THE SMALL CATECHISM, which we have been discussing, the last two petitions of the Lord’s Prayer ask God to protect us both spiritually and physically: THE SIXTH PETITION And lead us not into temptation. What does this mean? God certainly tempts no one
Thanks to Peter Leavitt for alerting us to this really scary statistic from Mark Steyn: Noting the president’s assurance that the 250-grand-and-under crowd won’t pay “a single dime” more in taxes, the Wall Street Journal calculated that if you took every single dime — that’s
Last year we had several posts on American plans to install missile defenses in Poland and the furious response from Russia. (Use the “search” function at the top of the page if you’d like to read our earlier discussion.) As Vice President Joe Biden himself
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