Lutherans for Life on HHS: “Here We Stand!”
Feb 20, 2012 1 Comment ›› John EidsmoeLast Saturday 18 Feb 2012, during our Lutherans for Life Board of Directors meeting at Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, MO, the Executive Director asked me to prepare a statement concerning the recent Health & Human Services directive requiring religious organizations to provide contraception for their employees. I drafted the statement, and with a ...
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Wendell Mitchell, RIP
Feb 15, 2012 No Comments ›› John EidsmoeThe first time I met Wendell Mitchell was about 22 years ago. As the Dean of the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, he was interviewing me for a professorship, and he asked me, "Could you fit into the South?" I assured him that would be no problem, because I was born in the South ...
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Response to “The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers” — Who Were They Hiding It From?
Jan 6, 2012 12 Comments ›› John EidsmoeChristian Pinto and Adullum Films have produced a DVD titled The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers in which they argue that America was not founded as a Christian nation. Rather, Pinto says, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were the products of Enlightenment thinking and the influence of Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and other ...
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Emory Folmar, RIP
Nov 16, 2011 1 Comment ›› John EidsmoeAround December 1984, the Air Force sent me to Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama for a week of reserve duty. I brought my wife and children with me, as they had never been to Alabama. One night that week, we attended a community Christmas carol fest in Crampton Bowl. Emory Folmar, the Mayor of Montgomery, opened ...
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Gods Bless America? To Whom Would Prayers at 9/11 Memorial Be Offered?
Sep 6, 2011 2 Comments ›› Ben DuPréNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (left) has come under intense criticism for inviting only elected officials, past and present, to the 10th anniversary memorial of the 9/11 attacks but not permitting clergy and prayer. Many conservative leaders, like Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Sen. Rick Santorum, and a NYC Councilman, have urged ...
Continue ReadingOtto von Hapsburg: The Prince, the Professor, and the Sinner
Jul 19, 2011 4 Comments ›› John EidsmoeOtto von Hapsburg (Habsburg) (1912-2011), the last Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, died at the age of 98 on 4 July 2011. After a 13-day period of mourning, he was entombed in the Imperial Crypt under the Capuchin Church in Vienna. The funeral embodied the dignity and regal splendor that befitted the heir of the ...
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Free Exercise of Religion Under The Knife in San Francisco
Jul 7, 2011 2 Comments ›› Site AdministratorGuest post from Foundation for Moral Law intern Jimmy Rich, a Covenant College alum currently in his second year at Jones School of Law, who plans to work in Constitutional Law. In 1791, our Constitution was amended to guarantee that Congress would never pass a law which stifled our liberty to worship God according to the ...
Continue ReadingTashlan, or Chrislam?
Feb 15, 2011 10 Comments ›› John EidsmoeMany of us have read C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, ostensibly to our children but secretly enjoying them ourselves. The Kingdom of Narnia, whose people and talking animals worshiped the Christ-figure Aslan, were a type of Christian Europe, while to the south of Narnia the Calormene Empire, whose people served the cruel god ...
Continue ReadingJudging Not for Man but for the Lord
Jan 31, 2011 3 Comments ›› Ben DuPréIf I supplied to you quotes from a judge that were full of scripture verses and recognitions that God was the righteous and "Supreme Judge of the World," and that spoke of the importance of a "relationship with Jesus Christ," what century would you guess those words were written or uttered? What long-gone era would ...
Continue ReadingDoes the First Amendment Protect Governors?
Jan 21, 2011 3 Comments ›› John Eidsmoe[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="143" caption="GOV. ROBERT BENTLEY"][/caption] Dr. Robert Bentley, Alabama's newly-inaugurated Governor, has already become controversial. On Inauguration Day, Bentley spoke for an audience at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King once served as pastor. He said he wanted to be Governor of all Alabamians and all who know Jesus ...
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