Thanks to Don S for pointing out the connection between Sen. Judd Gregg’s withdrawal as Commerce Secretary nominee and the Obama administration’s attempt to take over how the census will be conducted. Democrats have been wanting to use computer models to establish population numbers in
We were down for much of yesterday due to the main server being attacked by a virus. This had nothing to do with our installing our new software and bells and whistles! The conjunction in time was just a coincidence. It was not Stewart’s fault!
Have a blessed Ash Wednesday.
I love the traditional Collect for Ash Wednesday : Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging
Among Christians who observe Lent, the conventional wisdom today is that we shouldn’t just give up things. Rather, we should do something positive, a program of good deeds to boost our moral and spiritual lives. I disagree. I think we should give up things. Speaking
To mark Ash Wednesday, consider T. S. Eliot’s poem of the same name, which he wrote upon his conversion to Christianity and his baptism. The whole poem, linked above, is very much worth reading, despite its difficulty. But here is a magnificent excerpt on the
The Second Article of the Creed from THE SMALL CATECHISM is a fitting meditation for Ash Wednesday: THE SECOND ARTICLE I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit; born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius
The last few days we’ve been having some occasionally contentious discussion about where marriage fits in with the church and the state. I had started to worry that if even Christians don’t know what marriage is, how it is constituted, and how it is governed,
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Luther’s THE SMALL CATECHISM divides the Apostle’s Creed into three articles, one for each Person of the Trinity. Here is Luther’s explanation of what it means that God the Father is our Creator: THE FIRST ARTICLE I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of
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