By the time you read this, if all goes well, I should be in Cuenca, Ecuador. While I'm gone, though, the blog will continue. I'll be posting some pieces I wrote back when I was a columnist for "Tabletalk Magazine."
By the time you read this, if all goes well, I should be in Cuenca, Ecuador. While I'm gone, though, the blog will continue. I'll be posting some pieces I wrote back when I was a columnist for "Tabletalk Magazine."
This is my very first contribution to "Tabletalk," published in June 2001. I wrote about one of my earliest religious memories, develop some thoughts about the pastoral office, and apply some distinctly Lutheran warnings against "enthusiasm."
A writer on the resurgence of church attendance In the UK says that the churches that are growing are "those that make the boldest doctrinal claims," what a sociologist calls “full-fat faith.” "The diet version doesn’t have the same appeal." What does that mean for Lutherans?
In a discussion of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, my fellow Patheos blogger Anthony Costello quotes philosopher Charles Taylor on the mindset behind political violence. What do you think?
A conservative economist laments, "The free-market capitalism that saw this nation prosper like no other is no more."
American citizens used to be highly mobile, criss-crossing the country to pursue better jobs and buying new homes as the size of their family and their incomes increased. No more. Economists are worried. But is this altogether a bad thing?
A cognitive scientist complains, "Schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching."
Generation Z takes the lead in church going. American farmers are in trouble. And the further decline of labor unions.
Schools are teaching our children that their country is bad, that oppression is everywhere, that there is nothing they can do about it, and that they will perish in a climate apocalypse. This makes children hopeless and depressed. We are teaching them to despair.
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