Current events involving politics, political office holders, political candidates, world events, local events, crime and other public affairs issues are discussed. Business news items as well as science and technology issues may appear.
A synthetic chemist's blunt assessment: we have no idea where life came from, and we're not getting closer. The "warm little pond" model traces back to the Babylonians, not Darwin — and the hydrothermal-vent alternative doesn't survive contact with the actual chemistry.
Archives August--Jesus is the ultimate "Good Samaritan," the unlikely Rescuer who binds our wounds, carries us to safety, and pays the price through His cross.
Stephen Meyer traces that instinct forward to Stephen Hawking's no-boundary proposal, and argues that quantum cosmology doesn't eliminate the need for a creator so much as relocate it. To solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in a way that yields a universe like ours, a physicist has to restrict degrees of mathematical freedom — which means imparting information into the system. Meyer's question: who's doing the imparting?
Douglas Axe examines the fundamental rift between theistic and materialistic worldviews regarding the origin of life and human consciousness. He breaks down the limits of both pure physical materialism and theistic evolution, arguing that physical laws alone cannot account for human nature and thought. Through the "argument from introspection," Axe highlights how all rational thought and scientific inquiry rely on baseline foundational assumptions—namely, that our minds are trustworthy and that external reality is genuine—which must be taken on faith before science can even begin. He warns against self-defeating scientific theories that inadvertently undermine the very validity of human reasoning required to construct them. Finally, Axe illustrates the distinction between physical hardware and abstract thought by using a classic classroom riddle about where mathematical numbers truly reside.
The stage with its scripts is a different place than the armchair with its books. How do we understand plays rightly and do them justice, while still enjoying them as literature at home or in class? Come sit at the feet of Shakespeare and Sophocles and learn the craft of the playwright. Pastor Richard has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Production and annually writes and directs a play with the upper level students at Mount Hope Lutheran School.
The story from 1546 until 1580 is one of courage and cowardice, weakness and strength. The LORD used that season to clarify how we as God’s people confess the Truth of the Word. What would end up being 12 articles of Truth addressing the doctrinal issues of the day has a backstory of politics, war, personalities, and false doctrine.
“Help us, dear Heavenly Father to be faithful to Your Word and live holy lives according to it. Amen”
Rev. Andy Wright, pastor of St. John Lutheran Church, Topeka, KS, joins Rev. Brady Finnern to begin a new series on the Formula of Concord.
This three-part session will introduce you to Classical Lutheran Education! Fundamentally, we will seek to answer the questions such as: “What is Lutheran in education?” “Why should we educate?” “Who do we educate?” and many more. We will walk through other topics as it relates to the means we use to teach including the trivium, quadrivium, progymnasmata, integrated catechesis. Finally, we will touch on matters in regard to the school, its teachers, its curriculum, its students, over all school culture, and other practical matters.
