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
A while ago, we blogged about Russian scholar Igor Panarin, who is predicting that just as Communism’s collapse led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the current seeming collapse of Capitalism will mean the dissolution of the United States of America. So what will
In another unlikely-seeming example of God bringing someone to faith, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of one of the founders of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, is now a Christian, having been converted in an Israeli jail. FOXNews reports: Yousef said he was indoctrinated at
We often hear about “dying churches,” by which is usually meant a congregation that is not growing but rather shrinking; whose members are getting old; or even one where there seems to be little excitement. To call a church “dying” or even “dead” is highly
CNN assembled a panel of media and political insiders to make their predictions for 2009. We’ll hold them accountable and check to see how they did next year. It seems that most of them simply extrapolated from today’s situations, for good or bad. What does
Now that the Democrats are safely in power, the Washington Post can relax and change its tune. On today’s front page are two big articles with the sub-heads The War, in a Sense, Is Over (on the remaining challenges for Iraqis) and Bolten and Hadley
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