If ignorance is our greatest liability, then knowledge must be our greatest asset. And if knowledge isn’t our greatest asset, neither is ignorance our greatest liability. So did I name them correctly (see my earlier post for context)? I don’t know, but I think so. And this is why.
I think we need both Aristotle and [...]
Every year, Christians post billboards and bumper stickers that say, “Keep Christ in Christmas.” That’s a commendable thought. I just posted over at my personal blog an item on A Tale of Two Christmases. My thesis is that there really are two distinct holidays that occur in America on and around December [...]
Tagged Christ, christmas, church, Divine Service, mass“The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace.” With these words, President George W. Bush, in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, sought to allay the fears of American Muslims and the American people with them, by stating that the [...]
Tagged Islam, Just War, Martin Luther, President BushEastern Promises is the latest film directed by David Cronenberg and stars Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
Cronenberg has a bizarre repertoire of films with a flair for the grotesque. Not only are his movies often graphically violent, but they serve as veritable meditations on the effects of violence, both emotionally and bodily. And [...]
Seminary Bells, Seminary Bells,
Its chapel time in CTS.
Here them ring, ding-pause-ding
Five minutes till it begins!
Plaza sidewalks, busy students,
Some dressed in black, navy and white
In the air there’s the murmurers from Greek class.
Profs are smiling, as students filing
To their usual seats
A good Lutheran servant they’ll be!
Seminary Bells, Seminary Bells,
When we are saying [...]
During college, I attended a church abounding in people who thought this Christmas hymn was too hard to sing. It was too long, too difficult to follow the music, and too antiquated. They kept this mantra up for quite some time, convinced their complaints were really quite well-founded until, unfortunately for them, the pastor’s [...]
Tagged CTS, hymn, KantoreiHow do atheists celebrate Christmas? The ever articulate, never boring, Dinesh D’Souza asks this question here.
My other question is WHY do atheists celebrate Christmas?
The new atheists like Sam Harris, Philip Pullman and Christopher Hitchens like to claim that religion, and Christianity in particular, is responsible for the bulk of the world’s woes. If [...]
… very little. If an omniscient e-doll is really trying scare people into converting, then this takes the cake as one of the worst attempts at evangelism I’ve ever seen, which is humorous, considering there’s a link on the site that actually says “Think this is lame?” Yes. Yes, Death Beth. We do.
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Missouri Synod Lutherans have been involved in bringing the gospel to the Deaf since 1874. A special school for the Deaf opened in Detroit that year. It was meant to be an orphanage, but instead Deaf children came seeking religious instruction. “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
Now it’s 133 years later. [...]
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