George F. Will reports on what sounds like a significant article by Ian Bremmer in the journal Foreign Affairs entitled “State Capitalism Comes of Age: The End of the Free Market?”: Among the myriad signs that many nations are developing systems “in which the state
S. T. Karnick makes an interesting point in the context of an essay on the new popularity of zombies: Both the zombie appeal and the swine flu fears are caused by two things: the news media’s increasing use of scare tactics in trying to lure
More from last week’s Good Shepherd seminar at my church. . . .Prof. Pless quoted Luther from “Against the Heavenly Prophets”: On the Cross, forgiveness was won but not delivered. In the Word and Sacraments, forgiveness is not won but delivered. Explain. What errors and
My verdict on the Star Trek movie: The best Star Trek movie by far. And one of the best Star Trek episodes. Director and producer J. J. Abrams–who has also kept me hooked on “Lost”–did a superb job. The actors, playing the younger versions of
If you see the new Star Trek movie this weekend, please review it in a comment. We’ll make this a Mother’s Day activity.
So, how are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions? Oh, I see. I’m not doing so well on my resolution to not let my desk get so messy, but there is one New Year’s project that I’m actually following. That’s not because of my
Thanks to FWS for alerting me to this account in Slate of a man who had embraced Buddhism but then decided to drop it. Bizarrely, he had thought Buddhism would be more scientific, since it has no specific need for belief in God. But Buddhism
More from Prof. Pless, drawing on the writings of Australian theologian John Kleinig. . . .When you thank someone, you address that person directly. When you praise someone, you tell someone else how great that person is. When it comes to God, we are to
The city council of the District of Columbia has passed a bill legalizing gay marriage. But since D.C. is not a state, such measures have to be approved by Congress. This will bring the issue to the national government. From The Associated Press: DC gay
Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, takes issue with Christian just war theory and suggests we replace it with the concept of justifiable war: Just war theory today is a composite that has evolved from ideas developed by various religious figures. In
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