(Two of) The Big Three Do Not Disappoint

Ben noted one of the comments from the Big Three below, but two out of three of them gave us good soundbites that point to the fact that Judge Alito is extremely well-qualified (including this: “Alito was unanimously[!] confirmed by the U.S. Senate[!] to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.”). [...]

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“Thy Strong Word Bespeaks Us Righteous” (Or: The Festival of the Reformation)

O Lord God, heavenly Father, pour out, we beseech Thee, Thy Holy Spirit upon Thy faithful people, keep them steadfast in Thy grace and truth, protect and comfort them in all temptations, defend them against all enemies of Thy Word, and bestow upon Christ’s Church Militant Thy saving grace; through the same Jesus Christ, Thy [...]

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All Say “Alito”

President Bush has nominated Judge Samuel Alito to fill the remaining vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel: Thesis XXV

“In the twenty-first place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when the person teaching it does not allow the Gospel to have a general predominance in his teaching” (C.F.W. Walther, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel reproduced from the German edition of 1897 by W.H.T. Dau (St. Louis: Concordia, 1986), 4).

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Reluctant? CNN Knows

This from my CNN breaking news e-mail: “President Bush ‘reluctantly’ accepts Supreme Court nominee Harriet
Miers’s request to withdraw her nomination.”
What’s with the quotation marks? Now the media is into divining the President’s feelings? He may really be reluctant, but did he say so? Seriously…
On the other hand, as has been suggested here [...]

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Make Them Pay

Now that Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination, it is time for the President to nominate someone who cannot be criticized the way Miers was. Someone who has a solid record, someone with a mind like John Roberts, and the wit to defend him/herself. Frankly, I will know the next nominee is good [...]

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Another Look

“Any consideration of the significance of a resurrected Jesus requires a long look at why a world would find him distasteful” (David Dark, The Gospel According to America: A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ-haunted Idea (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005), 147).
What are the reasons? Why does one have a less [...]

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The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel: Thesis XXIV

“In the twentieth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when the unforgiven sin against the Holy Ghost is described in a manner as if it could not be forgiven because of its magnitude” (C.F.W. Walther, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel reproduced from the German edition of 1897 by W.H.T. Dau [...]

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Chew on This One For A Minute

What is at stake here?
Timotheos

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Hey, Honesty’s Something

[via Bunnie Diehl] You know, there’s only so much you can say to a person who is foaming at the mouth to say something that doesn’t make any sense.
You could argue, but, clearly, that would not do any good. You could engage in a pissing contest over whose religion has killed more people [...]

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