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April 2015

April 07, 2015
Children born inside the borders of the United States are automatically American citizens.  This has...
April 06, 2015
It's still Easter, that season lasting for the 40 days in which Christ was with...
April 06, 2015
At last count, 147 Kenyan university students were killed by al-Qaeda-linked Islamic terrorists.  Most of...
April 06, 2015
Concordia Publishing House has just published a new biography of Frederick the Wise, the powerful...
April 05, 2015
Have a joyous Easter, everybody! Do you not know that all of us who have...
April 03, 2015
Great Holy Week meditation from LCMS President Matthew Harrison: The world must surely think we’ve...
April 03, 2015
Scientists have been studying the mechanics, physiology, and history of crucifixion.  They have learned that...
April 03, 2015
More from Oswald Bayer, who shows the connection between justification and creation, as underscored in...
April 02, 2015
I've posted this poem before, since it's maybe my favorite poem by George Herbert.  But...
April 02, 2015
Anthony Sacramone discusses all of the magazine cover stories about "the search for the real...
April 02, 2015
Dark matter constitutes 85% of the universe.  New research shows how weird this stuff is. ...
April 01, 2015
More from Oswald Bayer: Luther never downplays or treats as harmless the situation of temptation...
April 01, 2015
If you come across any amusing April Fool's Day pranks--on the internet, in the media,...

March 2015

March 31, 2015
Rev. Joseph Abrahamson has thoroughly refuted these claims about Easter, and yet we still keep...
March 31, 2015
Sociologist George Yancey has conducted a study of people who are bigoted against Christianity.  He...
March 31, 2015
Political thinkers are pondering recent claims that we are in the midst of an epic ...
March 31, 2015
A company named EnChroma has developed glasses that allow color blind people to see colors.  ...
March 30, 2015
For my Lenten reading, I have taken up Living by Faith by Oswald Bayer, a...
March 30, 2015
Some Christians have said that the way to accommodate the new pro-gay laws is to...
March 30, 2015
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates are bombing Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen.  Different...
March 30, 2015
The Library of Congress has acquired thousands of Civil War photographs and has put them...
March 27, 2015
Rev. Adam Roe, in the series on vocation at MissionWork, discusses the concept of "sacrifice"...
March 27, 2015
Conservatives complain about Big Government, saying that huge, distant, super-powerful centralized government should often give...
March 27, 2015
Imagine a movie with two of the biggest stars in Hollywood, directed by an Oscar...
March 26, 2015
Most evangelism programs, church growth tactics, and other attempts to reach the "unchurched" concentrate on...
March 26, 2015
In the 13th century, so-called "portolan maps" appeared that are so accurate, they could be...
March 26, 2015
The movie version of Unbroken, about the trials of World War II hero Louis Zamperini,...
March 25, 2015
Our sermon for the beginning of Passiontide was Mark 10:32-45, the passage about James and...
March 25, 2015
More on Robert Putnam and his book Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, on the...
March 25, 2015
The Heritage Foundation has an interesting report entitled  The Breakdown of Where Your Tax Dollars...
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