Wednesday, 24 April 2024

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The last Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church was 1,200 years ago, and this one has been in the works for 70 years. Despite boycotts by several church bodies, including the largest, the Russian Orthodox Church, the council met and finished its work. As for what it accomplished, it doesn’t seem like much, falling short of the possibility that this would amount to Orthodoxy’s Vatican II. (Orthodox readers, please help us out with what happened at the Council and its significance.)
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A California judge is requiring a company that operates Christian dating sites to provide its services to same-sex couples. Affected are ChristianMingle.com, CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com, and BlackSingles.com.
From Christian Mingle Must Now Allow Same-Sex Matches Following Discrimination Lawsuit:
Dating site ChristianMingle.com will soon allow users to search for same-sex matches, courtesy of a “judge-approved settlement of discrimination claims,” the Wall Street Journal re..

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Some former students are putting on Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s absurdist comedy, and asked me to write a post for the troupe’s blog that would help people understand what the heck is going on. So I offered some worldview analysis of Beckett’s absurdist existentialism and threw in some literary analysis, as is my wont. See the post, excerpted and linked after the jump.
From Gene Veith, What’s the Point?: A History of Waiting for Godot – Geronimo Production Company:
Waiting for Godot, by ..

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Many evangelicals believe that a person becomes a Christian by making a “decision for Christ,” an act of the will, usually involving saying some version of “the sinner’s prayer,” in which the person “accepts Christ.” We Lutherans certainly believe in conversion, though not construing that as an act of the will, as such, but rather as the Holy Spirit’s creation of faith by means of Baptism and the Word of God. But some evangelicals treat the “decision for Christ” like Catholics treat Baptism, as ..

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The FBI director scolded Hillary Clinton for her illegal e-mail set-up and her careless handling of classified information. But then he said that no charges would be filed against her.
“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information,” he said, “our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before deciding whether to bring charges.” Of course they do. And..

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Thomas C. Oden is a prominent theologian who formerly was a major practitioner of liberal, modernist theology. But then, after reading the Church Fathers, he did an about face, turning to orthodox, historical Christianity. He tells his story in A Change of Heart: A Personal and Theological Memoir.
This is the most stimulating and illuminating book that I have read in a long time, giving an inside look at the construction of liberal theology, explaining what happened to mainstream Protestantism, ..

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At Donald Trump’s conclave with evangelical leaders, he notably dodged the religious liberty questions. That’s understandable, since Trump supports the LGTB cause , the source of the current efforts to punish Christians and Christian organizations for holding to their religious beliefs about sexual morality.
But surely Hillary Clinton would be worse than Trump on religious liberty issues, wouldn’t she? Maggie Gallagher thinks otherwise, after the jump. She argues that if Clinton is elected, Chri..

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A pall was cast over the state of Oklahoma as everyone was celebrating the 4th of July. I myself was at our small town’s Independence Day Parade when we got the news. Kevin Durant was leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder. Not just leaving but going to the Golden State Warriors.
The Warriors, with the super-record of 73-9, whom the Thunder came this close to beating in the playoffs. The Warriors, whom Oklahoma came to know in the seven game series, the team of the below-the-belt tactics of Draymond ..

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On this Independence Day, we celebrate our freedoms as Americans. It’s a good exercise to read The Declaration of Independence, and it’s also a good exercise to read the Bill of Rights, the first Ten Amendments to our Constitution, spelling out what those freedoms are.
Read the list of our civil liberties after the jump. As you do, consider which of these are currently under attack–by our own government, by government-connected organizations such as public universities, and by other entities.

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One of my most formative memories is when I was ten years old and the Holocaust administrator Adolf Eichmann was on trial. The four TV channels covered his trial, as he sat smirking behind a screen of bullet proof glass, and showed a number of documentaries about the Nazi genocide. Those black and white television images of piles and piles of human bodies, along with the accounts of what happened in the death camps, shook me to my core. My parents let me watch it, and I’m glad they did. It showe..

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