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June 18, 2013
Costs & benefits of Obamacare insurance
The states are starting to set up their insurance exchanges, so we are getting some idea of how much the required policies will cost and what their benefits will be. There will be four levels of coverage: platinum, gold, silver, and bronze. In California, the “silver plan,” which is the level that federal subsidies for [...]
June 17, 2013
Thumbs up for “Man of Steel”
Critics are torn over Man of Steel, the new Superman movie, though the general public likes it a lot, enough to set a record for a June opening. This time I agree with the general public. The movie is pro-life, anti-Nietzschean, pro-Kansas, pro-church (Superman goes to a church and talks to a pastor when he [...]
U.S. will intervene in Syria
President Obama said that since Syria’s ruler, Bashar al-Assad, used chemical weapons against those rebelling against his regime, the United States will send weapons to help the rebels. Though sending ground-troops is not being considered, officials are reportedly considering implementing a no-fly zone, using American aircraft. From Reuters: The United States is considering a no-fly [...]
A moderate wins the presidency of Iran
In a rare bit of good news for American foreign policy, a moderate was elected to the presidency of Iran, replacing the radical Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was term limited out of office. From BBC News – Hassan Rouhani wins Iran presidential election: Reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani has won Iran’s presidential election, securing just over [...]
Best Father’s Day cartoon
Comics – The Washington Post.
June 14, 2013
Fathers
I was doing an interview on KFUO with my daughter on our book Family Vocation: God’s Calling in Marriage, Parenting, and Childhood on the subject of Father’s Day. As I was talking about how our Heavenly Father works through earthly fathers, it hit me that this will be the first Father’s Day I will have [...]
A great conversation about vocation
A Lutheran, a Calvinist, and a Baptist walk into a bar. . . and start talking about vocation. Well, not really. The Baptist would not go into a bar, and in this case there is no Baptist. I’d describe the Liberate folks (a ministry of Tullian Tchividjian) as Lutheran-influenced evangelicals. But this video is a [...]
Human genes can’t be patented
In a rare unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that human genes cannot be patented. As we blogged about earlier, some companies have patented human genetic material, but the judges ruled that only inventions and not products of nature can be patented. From USA Today: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that human genes cannot be [...]
The sequel to “300″
Did you get a kick out of 300, the movie about the Battle of Thermopylae with the weird hyper-realistic computer animation? Then you will surely enjoy the sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, which will pick up the story of the Persian invasion of ancient Greece building up to the sea Battle of Salamis. It’s [...]
June 13, 2013
Good lines on Baptism
The current issue of For the Life of the World, the magazine of Concordia Theological Seminary, has some great articles by its faculty on Baptism. I’ll give you some samples of what they had to say: No more than a husband or wife would say “I was married” with the day of the wedding in [...]
