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I think the truth is hat we don’t know at this point.

It doesn’t appear that the Anglicans are planning to change current liturgy. Fact Check-Church of England not planning to abolish or substantially revise currently authorised liturgies, contrary to social media claims it seems like this would mean additional options of some sort, but at the...

Equity is a good thing where it applies. This is a bad reaction. I don’t think this is a trend, unless Florida carries out its threat to stop doing AP courses. I think parental reaction to the places that have tried it will limit the spread. San Diego has had to back off. Improving education...

A number of churches have already done this. We don’t call God it. Sometimes we just say God, but the wording depends upon the context. Sometimes our father. Sometimes passive voice, as was often done in the NT. But a simple alternative would be the singular they. As in Elohim. Sometimes the...

When Rowe v Wade happened, Southern Baptists supported it. Even now, many non evangelicals often don’t agree. Whatever the image of God means, it can’t apply until there’s a working neocortex, which is about 2/3 of the way through pregnancy.

Since there are a bunch of Scriptures saying he died for everyone, welcome to universalism.

That makes no sense. In typical Protestant theology, including Calvinist, the saved have faith and the unsaved don’t. Those who believe in universal atonement still say this. In Calvinist theology, that faith arises because God creates it in the elect. Even if Jesus died for everyone, his death...

It would be easy to prevent this. Pass more reasonable laws. Do you really think the abortion foes behind these laws are part of some left wing conspiracy? I think they’re just drunk with power. They think they now have unlimited authority to deal with abortion, and aren’t thinking about what is...

The US didn't quite abandon the space program. Obama decided to stop a couple of short-range programs and instead concentrate on longer-range programs, and also encourage private ventures such as SpaceX. SpaceX provides a good alternative to a trampoline, though not yet to get to the moon. The...

As far as I can tell, they didn't slam the brakes on anything. They simply threatened to create a schism. As if they hadn't learned anything from the 16th Century.

Of course it’s premature. The decision hadn’t happened. But I think it’s clear that it will. In that case his statement becomes operational. Yes, he only said it was possible. I noted that as long as Biden is president it couldn’t become law. It unlikely that Republicans would be willing to pay...

Reversing Rowe v Wade doesn't return the matter to states. It returns the matter to legislatures. That is, there could still be Federal legislation. Obviously there won't be while Biden is president, but Mcconnell told USA Today that it was possible Republicans would propose it. He's now...

Not exactly, but it’s no longer being treated as an emergency. I’ve read a lot of things about it over the last couple of years. One discussion dealt with the question of when a pandemic is over. There’s no precise definition, but from a practical point of view it’s over when people decide it’s...

A fugitive woman act would be based on the previous sentence of the same act.

Yup. And that was part of the argument for Rowe v Wade. The court observed that there are good arguments on both sides, and no agreement among Americans. Courts had no business enforcing one view because they happened to agree. We've now got a court intentionally chosen to have a specific view...

on a national ban: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/02/abortion-ban-roe-supreme-court-mississippi/ "A group of Republican senators has discussed at multiple meetings the possibility of banning abortion at around six weeks, said Sen. James Lankford (Okla.), who was in attendance and...

Remember, we're not going back to before Rowe v Wade. Red states are much more aggressive now. There are laws trying to stop people from going to another state fpr an abortion. Is that constitutional? No, but there's no reason to think the Supreme Court will decide that way. Do you recall the...

The decision is dangerous. Rose v Wade rests on the concept that the givernment is not supposed to regulate our private lives, This principle is not limited to abortion, but has been used in other decisions. The new opinion seems yo be unwilling to protect abortion because it is not explicitly...

We don't know that the older son was a legalist. All we know is that he resented the father making so much of someone who had rejected his father for so long. It's tempting to understand that in the context of the church's mission to the Gentiles. That was particularly important to Luke, in...

It’s a good goal. Not sure whether 2035 is the right date.