The Associated Press reports that President Bush pardoned two turkeys and sent them to Disneyland, never to return.
First thought: It’s a good start. Now move on to Congress, and finish off with the members of your staff that required ethics training.
Quote from article:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which in the past [...]
A Lutheran You Should Know
Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676)
Gerhardt wrote 123 German hymns a hundred years after the Reformation, writing lyrics to the music of others. He also translated and set Latin text, giving us “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” (German), one of my favorites. He is regarded as one of Germany’s finest hymn writers and poets.
Gerhardt [...]
It was a good thing I had arrived at the airport early today. I boarded the train to go from Terminal B to C in Houston, but the train didn’t move for minutes. Finally staff came up and said there was a fire drill, and procedure called to stop the train. A fire truck [...]
The New York Times got my hopes up this evening, with an article titled, “Two ‘Bridges to Nowhere’ Tumble Down in Congress”. Reuters’ article says, “‘Bridge to nowhere’ stripped from US funding bill”.
Unfortunately the news is not as good as the titles. From the Times:
Straining to show new dedication to lower spending, House and [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a Wednesday night church service on a business trip. I had missed church on Sunday that week so it was a fortuitous thing. I had been to the church before and was friends with the pastor. As a frequent business traveler I appreciate [...]
The Associated Press reports that the first research group to clone a human embryo may have used eggs provided by the group’s own researchers.
University of Pittsburgh cloning researcher Gerald Schatten said on Saturday that he resigned from the stem cell hub and ended his 20-month collaboration with Hwang because of the South Korean’s “unethical practices” [...]
Posts for the next Lutheran Carnival are due on Friday.
As the number of carnival posts increases, it becomes harder to keep track of people and themes that are posted about, so I created a new static page on the right that will be updated.
I’ve got some submissions so far, and I look [...]
On the plane to Houston, I finished The Defense Never Rests: A Lawyer’s Quest for the Gospel by Craig A. Parton. Parton is a lawyer who left American Evangelicalism for Lutheranism in 1995.
