More language games: Gay rights activists are seeking to change the words with which we think about this issue by eliminating “gay” and “same-sex” from the discourse. From the Washington Post: For gay rights advocates, the campaign so far largely centers on an effort to
More from Prof. Pless at our church’s Good Shepherd Seminar. . . .He pointed out that it was Schleiermacher, the 19th century Romantic theologian considered the father of liberal theology, who first defined guilt as a feeling experienced by the doer of the deed. Before
As you may have noticed, due to a number of requests, we have taken down the IntenseDebate plug in on this blog. It had some bugs that made it do some strange things, keeping some comments from posting and preventing me from deletions. It especially
You might have missed Snafu’s comments on the Changing your religion post about the church in Finland: In Finland the situation is such that people are not so much changing their denomination but leaving the church membership. As you might know, we have a former
According to this article, people earning $500,000 or more make up only 10% of households, but account for over half of retail sales and 70% of retailers’ profits. But they have stopped buying. Why? They feel guilty spending on luxury goods during the economic downturn.
Prof. John Pless, at our church’s Good Shepherd Seminar, drew on some other scholarship to point out that there are three different assumptions as to what worship should accomplish: (1) Conversion. The purpose of worship is to convert non-believers. A more recent variation is motivation
Betsy McCaughey tells how an administration health care planner thinks the Hippocratic Oath is getting in the way: Patients count on their doctor to do whatever is possible to treat their illness. That is the promise doctors make by taking the Hippocratic Oath. But President
“Wittenberg” playwright David Davalos linked to a Luther picture at a blog named Chaos and Old Night by an LCMS seminarian John Fraiser. Looking at his blog, I came across a provocative post entitled Does Your Church Encourage Homosexuality?. He cites the ways that can
As one of our commenters said, Egypt’s pig farmers are all Christians, swine being unclean for Muslims. The swine flu scare is being used as a pretext to harm Christians, as Egypt is demanding that all pigs be destroyed, even though the disease is not
In our continuing series on attempts to get people behind policies by changing the language, a secret memo from some environmentalist activists is calling for ditching terms like “global warming”. From the New York Times: The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global
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