Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Will the Real "Climate Deniers" Please Stand Up?

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There are few things sadder than the “climate denier.” He ignores the data and neglects the latest science. His rhetoric and policy propos...
Monday, April 01, 2013

The Good News of Easter (Or, "What's John Updike Got To Do with Easter?")

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(Note. The following is an edited version of the first part of yesterday's Easter sermon at Faith Bible Church. It speaks of a seemingly...

NY Times: "Openness" (Not Fidelity) Is Recurring Feature of Homosexual Relationships

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In the talk about legalizing homosexual marriages, we've heard an awful lot of talk about love and commitment and fidelity. Well, don...

What's the Multiple Sclerosis Society Doing Hiring an Abortion Zealot?

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I just came across Kathy Ostrowski's blog report from a couple of weeks ago. I post a lengthy section of it below and then the contac...

An April Fools News Round Up

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After a week's absence for Vital Signs Blog, here's an April Fools Day news roundup. But, alas, all of these news items are all t...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Denny, What's Happening On Your Other Blog?

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Do you mean The Book Den ? That "other blog" that deals more particularly with literature, music, and, on rare occasions, even o...

Evangelism: A Core Activity of the Faithful Christian

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Christian witness is the great dividing line between those who merely “believe” and those who truly “follow.” A non-witnessing faith is a ...

The Evolution of College Education: Case 147 (Sex Week at UT)

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Should a public university be sponsoring a Sex Week? You know, a public university of the type that prohibits open expressions of Christia...

Hope and Change? America Under Obama Is MORE Disliked in Middle East.

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The U.S is now less popular in the region than at the end of the George W. Bush administration. President Obama's first journey to Isr...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Thank You Beethoven, Thank You Banco Sabadell.

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The music is, of course, Beethoven's Ninth. And the event is a commercial of sorts for the Bank of Sabadell in Sabadell, near Barcelona ...

Prager on Portman: "Even If Your Child Is Gay"

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"I'm announcing today a change of heart." These words are well chosen. Senator Portman's position is indeed "a chan...

Obama in Israel: "It's a Hostile Act."

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Appearing on WMAL-FM in Washington D.C. Wednesday morning, Caroline Glick, Senior Contributing Editor of the Jerusalem Post said the Isra...

Thank You for Choosing Life

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After a cold day that started in front of an abortion clinic, I was moved to watch again this classic song by Kenny Chesney...and to thank a...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

"Look Both Ways," Denny's Latest LifeSharer Letter

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That night I asked Granny, “What do old men think about when they look off and don’t talk?” “What old men?” she asked shrewdly. “Lots of o...

America Is Still #1 in Health Care. But For How Long?

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It outrages some that conservatives and Republicans claim that the USA’s health care system is the best in the world and that the proper ...

As If He Wasn't Heterodox Enough, Rob Bell Comes Out for Same-Sex Marriage

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Remember Rob Bell, the former mega-church pastor and best-selling author whose deviations from biblical orthodoxy made him such a hep cat ...

FreedMen Conquest Coming to Lincoln

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The Latest Outrages (Well, Some of 'Em)

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 * "EU raid on Cyprus banks should ring alarm bells here." (Leo McKinstry, The Daily Express, U.K.) Contemptuous of the nat...

Wednesday Tea Break (Spannin' the 60s)

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First from 1961, Ricky Nelson's Travelin' Man : Next up, from the middle of the decade (1965), is Smokey Robinson and the Miracl...
Friday, March 15, 2013

It Ain't All About Ducks

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Phil Robertson, the down-home genius who made duck calls into a big (and now highly-celebrated) business, once heard a higher call. Give a...