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August 2016

August 22, 2016
In the course of a post on why so many evangelicals are supporting Donald Trump,...
August 22, 2016
Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977.  In honor of that anniversary, Sarah Condon at...
August 22, 2016
Most polls show Donald Trump losing big time, especially in the crucial battleground states.  But...
August 19, 2016
Vice President Joe Biden performed a gay wedding earlier this month, getting special certification from the...
August 19, 2016
Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte and three other members of the U.S. swim team lied...
August 19, 2016
For the second time since his nomination, Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign staff....
August 19, 2016
Mexico's constitution guarantees the right of citizens to own firearms.  But it also allows the government...
August 18, 2016
You have GOT to read The Relic Master, a novel by Christopher Buckley (son of...
August 18, 2016
A lot of us dislike both of the major party candidates.  Quite a few of...
August 18, 2016
New Zealand has almost no native mammals.  Just bats.  So when rats, possums, and stoats...
August 17, 2016
The contours of a new liberal theology, one in accord with the new ideology of...
August 17, 2016
The Pew Research Center has conducted a study finding that 64% of church goers heard...
August 17, 2016
Vermont has a law allowing for physician-assisted suicide.  State agencies are interpreting the law so...
August 16, 2016
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (the theologically liberal Lutheran denomination) has arrived at a...
August 16, 2016
In a major speech on immigration and fighting ISIS, Donald Trump said that he would...
August 16, 2016
Some women who get Zika have babies with severe birth defects, but some don't.  In...
August 15, 2016
A rabbi writing in the Wall Street Journal offers reflections on Chariots of Fire, the 1981 movie...
August 15, 2016
NeverTrump conservatives thought they might have a candidate they could vote for when ex-CIA agent...
August 15, 2016
A police officer shot and killed an armed black man in Milwaukee, sparking a riot...
August 12, 2016
In a play to capitalize on Mormon's dissatisfaction with Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton wrote an...
August 12, 2016
We keep getting told that demographics favor the Democrats and look bad for the Republicans,...
August 12, 2016
It turns out that Greenland sharks routinely live to be 272 years old.  One was...
August 11, 2016
The Baltic republics, geographically and culturally, are almost Scandinavian.  Now that a national Lutheran church--that...
August 11, 2016
Usually, politics is a competition between individuals and factions each of which wants to be,...
August 11, 2016
CBS is coming out with a new Star Trek series, starting on its main broadcasting...
August 11, 2016
As we blogged about, the California legislature was all set to pass a law punishing Christian...
August 10, 2016
I came across a long, detailed account of an evangelical pastor who casts out demons....
August 10, 2016
Finally, an independent candidate for president has emerged, an alternative to both Hillary Clinton and...
August 10, 2016
Go into a "cool" coffee shop.  Notice the reclaimed wood, big glass windows, subdued colors,...
August 09, 2016
Donald Trump has done it again, appearing to say something so over the top that...
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