I came across a very perceptive and fascinating comment from a young man who has come out of the house church/Emergent church movement into Lutheranism. No, this is not a shamless plug for Lutheranism, but rather, for the purpose of this blog site, it is a fascinating look into what a growing number . . . . Continue Reading »
I hate to admit it, but God built me up to be a blogger. I’m really at my best when I am at 3 pages or less in final content (about 1500 words) and I try to stick to one subject — even by analogy.Kevin DeYoung may be my fellow blogger here at Evangel, but he’s not really a blogger. . . . . Continue Reading »
George Will has an interesting column today on Sarah Palin and “America’s durable but shallow reservoir of populism”: The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his . . . . Continue Reading »
I am in LA, near my old stomping grounds in the San Fernando Valley, where I just gave grand rounds at a Veteran’s medical facility to physicians, residents, and other medical staffers. We had a very good discussion about maintaining human intrinsic dignity as the fundamental purpose of . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’ve ever wanted to listen in to lectures on theology and apologetics by R. R. Reno, then you should check out the website for KVSS, a Catholic radio station in Omaha. They have some nicely done and substantive interviews with Reno discussing faith and reason in St. Thomas, John Henry . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things senior editor David Goldman explains why high levels of unemployment may last indefinitely : There are several reasons to believe that most of these jobs never will come back. That is a less contentious statement than it might appear, because the jobs lost in the recessions since 1981 . . . . Continue Reading »
Pew Research finds that in some key ways Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans and Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith than older people do today: Indeed, Millennials are significantly more unaffiliated than Generation Xers were at a comparable . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s a bit more complicated, Rusty . On what grounds should we defend Yiddish? I agree that there are excellent reasons, but let us dig into your point a bit more. Why did Jews speak Yiddish in the nineteenth century (when it was generally referred to as “Teutsch”), that is, the . . . . Continue Reading »
When Secretary of State William H. Seward purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867, the press dubbed the expansionist effort “Seward’s Folly.” Since then the conventional wisdom has been that history vindicated Seward and his $7.2 million investment. But a paper by . . . . Continue Reading »
So we’re at the place where we can say a couple-four things from the existential side of the problem of evil:[1] from the perspective that pain exists, and we perceive it, we as human beings (you could say “people”) have an urge to do something about it when we see it.[2] that urge . . . . Continue Reading »
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