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September 2023

September 20, 2023
The efforts to use inclusive language to refer to God are in conflict with today's...
September 19, 2023
As I've been blogging about "the great dechurching," I was reading a book that I...
September 18, 2023
"The Stupid Party" vs. "the Evil Party," playing fast and loose with abortion statistics, and...
September 15, 2023
A study from the Baptist research group Lifeway has found that most Protestants, both evangelical...
September 15, 2023
Some Senate Republicans are saying that pro-lifers  need to change their terminology.  What do you...
September 14, 2023
The Christian view of the nature of marriage and its purposes is stated both in...
September 13, 2023
Liberal theologians used to argue with conservative theologians about truth claims--the inerrancy of Scripture, the...
September 12, 2023
"God doesn't need our good works. Our neighbor does." That's a great quote from Luther,...
September 11, 2023
Trump and the 14th Amendment, a plea for a church for the nones, and a...
September 08, 2023
I have always thought that advocates of theocracy--whether the dominionism of the Reformed, the Seven...
September 08, 2023
The very candidates who oppose America's involvement in Ukraine and our history of getting involved...
September 07, 2023
In discussing "dechurching," Lyman Stone looks at the data and comes to a startling conclusion: ...
September 06, 2023
Over the last few decades, church attendance and affiliation have dropped dramatically.  Over those same...
September 05, 2023
Zondervan has just released what promises to be an important book, "The Great Dechurching." In...
September 04, 2023
This is Labor Day, that secular holiday that we are Christianizing by making it be...
September 04, 2023
The inerrancy of Donald Trump, efforts to bring back COVID masks, and the Bud Light...
September 01, 2023
Churches used to help hold society together, a place for people of different social classes...
September 01, 2023
The Republican presidential candidates had their first debate, so the field is shaping up.  What's...

August 2023

August 31, 2023
David Upham refers to two models of marriage: "companionate" marriage, oriented to companionship, and "matrimonial...
August 30, 2023
Whoever controls the language, it has been said, controls how people think. The left has...
August 29, 2023
"Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony is a cry of the heart from...
August 28, 2023
Conservatives' pop culture moment, the courts keep supporting religious liberty, and Republican big spenders.
August 25, 2023
In his treatise "On Temporal Authority," Luther argues that the state should not punish heretics...
August 25, 2023
Today's main post is about Luther's opposition to the state's attempt to stamp out heresy...
August 24, 2023
Hospitality is a Biblical virtue, but the deconstructionist Jacques Derrida has turned "pure hospitality" into...
August 23, 2023
A common value expressed today--in corporations, schools, regulators, and churches--is "inclusion."  But, as Tal Fortgang...
August 22, 2023
Jonathan Edwards is best known for his hair-raising fire and brimstone sermon "Sinners in the...
August 21, 2023
Trump's 91 felony charges, hybrid genders, and 22 states outlaw sex change surgeries for children. 
August 18, 2023
The decline in church attendance is not just due to young people.  Large numbers of...
August 18, 2023
Have any of you experienced church burnout?  How did you deal with that?
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