Let me illustrate how I see the importance of Christian doctrine. I have two children. One lives in a city a few hundred miles away and the other lives overseas. It occured to me that when I go to visit the child that lives a few hundred miles away I pack very differently than when I go to visit the child…
Why not start with Martin Luther? In his 1518 Heidelberg Theses Luther points out that God’s love is fundamentally different from human love. God’s love does not find its object but creates its object. Human love finds its object, We love people or things because we find in them something loveable, something attractive. God does…
It was a slow day And the sun was beating On the soldiers by the side of the road There was a bright light A shattering of shop windows The bomb in the baby carriage Was wired to the radio These are the days of miracle and wonder This is the long distance call The…
People talk about a media bias in terms of the reporting that is done. The bias happens before one word of reporting is done. The bias happens in which stories are selected as being worthy of reporting on. One story noted a doubling of the number of same-sex households in Minnesota. Sounds impressive. It also…
I believe that the old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,” points more to the power of words than to the weakness of words. After all, the only time we use the phrase is when we are trying to prevent words from hurting us. I believe that…
It works, it really, really works! I was updating my computer when it suddenly froze up. So I wrote the name Tebow on a piece of paper, knelt down and did the Tebow pose and just like that, my computer started working again! As quarterback of the Denver Broncos Tim Tebow has led his team…
Myron Kunin, founder of the Regis Corporation, was known for his substantial collection of 20th-century American paintings. Here is a sampling of the paintings he has donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Mirror Neurons 