Churches were told to make adjustments for Generation X.  Lately, new adjustments had to be made for the Millennials.  Now we must deal with Generation Z.  This is being described as the first “post-Christian” generation. Generation Z is defined as those born between 1999 and 2015.  That means that the label applies to young people today between the ages of three and nineteen.  So we are talking about children and teenagers today, who will grow up to be the next… Read more

President Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET, in a joint session of Congress with the Supreme Court attending.  The speech is to be aired on all major television networks.  (Last year he addressed a joint session of Congress, but, technically, newly-elected presidents don’t give a State of the Union address, so this will be his first.) The president is expected to highlight his accomplishments while in office and the strong economy… Read more

  George Lindbeck has died at the age of 94.  The Lutheran (ELCA) theologian and Yale professor is considered the father of postliberal theology.  This movement is essentially a critique of liberal theology from the standpoint of postmodernism. The liberal theology that dominated mainline Protestantism through much of the 20th century was “modernist.”  It professed to be rationalistic and scientific.  It worked from a naturalistic worldview.  It assumed the tenets of progress, that human beings have moved from primitivism to… Read more

President Trump has released his new proposal for immigration reform.  Right now, one side attacks it for providing “amnesty” to children of illegal immigrants, while the other side attacks it for being “heartless.”  Let’s consider it point by point. (1)  “Dreamers”–the older children of families in the U.S. illegally who are here through no fault of their own and have grown up here–will not only be allowed to stay, they will be put on a 10-year “path to citizenship.”  President Obama had… Read more

There is currently no real concept for forgiveness in the secular world, no mechanism for atonement or redemption. Read more

President Trump has said that he is willing to testify under oath in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.  The president said that his attorneys are working out the details and that the interrogation will take place within two or three weeks.  “I’m looking forward to it actually,” he added.  “There has been no collusion whatsoever, there has been no obstruction whatsoever,” he said.  “I would do it under oath, absolutely.” This confidence suggests that he has nothing to hide.  But this… Read more

In our recent post “Only Moderate Religion Is On the Decline,” we reported on new research that paints a different picture of American religion than we have been assuming.  Although this report contains good news for committed Christians, it also has implications that churches need to think through. To review (see the link above for the details), religion in America isn’t declining at all.  Yes, religious affiliation is on a downturn, but this can almost totally be accounted for by the departure… Read more

The Trump administration is being investigated by the FBI.  But now the FBI is also being investigated! It started with a lead agent on the Trump case, Peter Strzok, being caught sending anti-Trump e-mails, a clear case of bias.  So Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller took him off the case. But then there was more.  An e-mail was found from Strzok to FBI lawyer Lisa Page–who turns out to be his mistress!–saying this about the prospects for Trump’s election: “I want to… Read more

Augusto Del Noce was an Italian thinker from back in the 1960s who predicted much of what we are facing today.  A Catholic Christian, Del Noce explored the connections between the sexual revolution, the technological revolution, and totalitarianism. Two of his books are newly available in English: The Age of Secularization and The Crisis of Modernity.  Francis X. Maier reviews them for First Things in The Most Important Thinker We Don’t Know. Says Maier, At the height of Soviet power, Del Noce predicted… Read more

Two of the biggest tech companies, Apple and Amazon, are planning new “campuses,” planning to share the wealth with other American cities by breaking out of their Silicon Valley and Seattle enclaves.  (Note the knowledge-based metaphor:  not “offices,” implying bureaucracy, or “facilities,” like a factory, but “campuses” like a university.)  Cities are competing with each other to lure the huge companies with their host of well-paying jobs.  These expansions tell us some things about today’s economy. First of all, the tax… Read more

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