Yesterday’s post about celibritocracy, continuing current trends of letting ourselves be governed by celebrities, got me thinking. We will need a new constitution. How about this?: The Executive Branch will be made up of Actors. After all, the Executive is the branch that, well, acts.
More from Carl Trueman’s article Luther’s Theology of the Cross: This insight is one of the factors in Luther’s thinking that gives his theology an inner logic and coherence. Take, for example, his understanding of justification, whereby God declares the believer to be righteous in
Reports are that Barack Obama is appointing as Surgeon General that doctor guy on CNN, Sanjay Gupta. By that logic, Michelle Malkin suggests Judge Judy for the next Supreme Court opening. Comedian Al Franken will likely be the Senator from Minnesota. Kennedy princess Carolyn Kennedy
OK, this is one of those social science research projects that proves the perfectly obvious, but it’s still good to find evidence that children raised by both parents in a family that goes to church have fewer problems. From Kids from Religion, Intact Families Fare
Carl Trueman in his article Luther’s Theology of the Cross we introduced yesterday, on the “revolutionary implications” of this insight, that God is to be known only in Christ crucified: Luther is demanding that the entire theological vocabulary be revised in light of the cross.
Episcopalian congregations that broke away from its apostate national body got to keep their property after court battles in Virginia. But it was not the same in California, whose Supreme Court ruled that in the event of a split, the property reverts to the national
Reports indicate that part of Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan will be a whopping is$300 Billion Tax Cut. That’s bigger than the Bush tax cuts: President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are crafting a plan to offer about $300 billion of tax cuts to individuals
It looks like comedian Al Franken will be the new senator from Minnesota. A recount has him beating incumbent Republican Norm Coleman by a mere 225 votes. Legal challenges remain, but still. See Minnesota Board Calls Senate Race for Franken – WSJ.com. What is it
As promised, I am going to post this week excerpts from an article by Carl Trueman, professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, on Luther’s Theology of the Cross. Prof. Trueman sets up the context of the Heidelberg Disputation, which was held
In the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the protagonist befriends an African pygmy who says that he was once exhibited in a zoo. That is an allusion to something that actually happened to a pygmy named Ota Benga. In 1906, he was put
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