My pal Tom Lorentzen used to administer Medicare for the Western Region. Tom is a very sober and responsible political thinker who believes in solving problems from a conservative bent.Today, he has a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle pushing a plan that would help Obama pivot away from his . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted this proposal at the “Inner Workings” blog but believe the issue is important enough to reiterate here:Today’s lead Bloomberg News report that the French banks were willing to accept a haircut on their AIG swaps suggests that the New York Fed lied about the . . . . Continue Reading »
To protest the seal hunt, and animal rights activist put a pie in the face of a Canadian government minister. From the story:An incident in which the federal fisheries minister was hit with a pie by a seal hunt protester should be seen as a terrorist act, says a Liberal MP. Gerry Byrne made the . . . . Continue Reading »
In a previous post, I posted remarks about the catholicity of the Lutheran Church. It still is receiving a response. I thought it might be good to go on record here on this “Evangel” blog what the first evangelicals had to say about the claims of the Roman Catholic Church, when they . . . . Continue Reading »
The functions of the family and church, says Douglas Farrow, are being replaced by the state : When I speak of the audacity of the state, the kind of state I have in mind is what we may call the savior state. The main characteristic of the savior state is that it presents itself as the . . . . Continue Reading »
David Daleiden and Jon A. Shields on why so many abortion workers have turned pro-life : In the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, second-trimester abortions were usually performed by saline injection. The doctor simply replaced the amniotic fluid in the patient’s uterus with a saline solution and . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Inman has an amusing graphical primer on how to use a semicolon . . . . . Continue Reading »
At Evangel, the Rev Paul T. McCain noted that he was somewhat unfamiliar with the details and differences of and between the Eastern Orthodox and the Western (liturgical) calendars. So, with that in mind, I thought I’d attempt to fill in what’s happening and up and coming for the . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”attachment_4881” align=”alignleft” width=”400” caption=”Mosaic of Chrysostom in the Hagia Sophia. Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey.”][/caption]Given the added name of Chrysostom, which means “golden-mouthed” in Greek, Saint . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s obvious, I hope, that I’m writing here for people who say to themselves, “There is something irresistible about Jesus.” For some of you, that’s a point which you make into an ideological cathedral — a point of doctrine which lines up in an acronym that summarizes the faith, your faith. For others, it’s a nagging thought — as you work out your faith on your own, you keep coming back to this Jesus, and you can’t make sense of him all the way, but you also can’t accept everything he says because it seems somehow too hard to live that way, or too complex, or too simple, or merely out of your grid of experience. Continue Reading »
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