by Kevin Bauder | Jan 18, 2017 | Baptists, Catholicism, Christianity, Church History, Reformation, Religious Freedom, Tolerance
During the English Reformation Catholics burned Anglicans and Anglicans burned Catholics. Now the Archbishop of Canterbury has decided it’s time to express remorse. Apparently, plenty of people in the UK find this gesture pretty ridiculous. Perhaps it’s...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 17, 2017 | Education, Ethics
Wow. We’ve had a spate of these over the last few years. Now it’s Monica Crowley who is being accused of plagiarizing parts of a book and her doctoral dissertation. See the story at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 17, 2017 | Archaeology
According to Gordon Govier at Christianity Today. Number 1 is the unsealing of Jesus’ (supposed) tomb.
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 17, 2017 | America, Politics
According to Jim Copland and Rafael A. Mangual, 98 percent of the crimes on the books in America are the result of bureaucratic regulation rather than direct legislation. By taking crime creation almost entirely out of the political process, the government has...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 16, 2017 | Apropos of Nothing
When I saw the headline of Australian theologian Michael Bird’s blog post, “Why We Need to Teach Biblical Languages,” I thought he’d offer a reasoned response to the dumbing down of education by some seminaries. Nope.