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May 2018

May 29, 2018
Love in the Ruins (1972) is a dark, comic, disturbing, and yet profoundly Christian novel...
May 28, 2018
Memorial Day should include memories.  The holiday was established specifically to remember those who died defending...
May 28, 2018
My son-in-law Adam Hensley,  Old Testament Lecturer at Australian Lutheran College, has just published his book Covenant...
May 26, 2018
Ireland once saved civilization, keeping Christianity and the classical tradition alive, during the barbarian invasions...
May 25, 2018
A number of conservative thinkers, in trying to address the political and cultural problems of...
May 24, 2018
  Evangelicals who support Donald Trump are receiving harsh criticism, both from other Christians and...
May 23, 2018
Leading Democrats in the Senate have introduced a bill that would amend the Religious Freedom...
May 23, 2018
President Trump is bringing back a Reagan-era rule that would prevent federal "family planning" money...
May 22, 2018
I quite randomly stumbled upon this quotation from Lutheran theologian Hermann Sasse*, the anti-Nazi activist...
May 22, 2018
We had yet another high school shooting, with 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis in Santa Fe, Texas, prowling...
May 21, 2018
Yesterday was another major holy-day:  Pentecost, fifty days after the resurrection of Christ and ten...
May 18, 2018
In a review of Jonah Goldberg's The Suicide of the West in The Federalist, John...
May 18, 2018
In our recent post, The Vocation of a Spy, we discussed whether espionage is a...
May 17, 2018
According to a new study, the number of white evangelicals is dropping precipitously, to the...
May 17, 2018
In the jungles of Brazil, some tribes kill children who are disabled, who were born...
May 16, 2018
Tom Wolfe, 88, has died. The pioneer of "New Journalism," which uses fictional techniques--an interior point...
May 16, 2018
The medical profession enjoys some of the highest level of respect in the country, and...
May 15, 2018
The always-interesting Peter Leithart, a fellow Patheos blogger, discusses Systematic Theology, II: The Works of God (2001)...
May 14, 2018
Normally, the leadership of important government agencies like the CIA goes to politicians, campaign allies,...
May 11, 2018
More on the Ascension of Christ. . . .I keep reading on evangelical sites that...
May 11, 2018
Last month a man in Toronto drove his car into a crowd of people, killing...
May 10, 2018
The resurrected Jesus was with His disciples for 40 days, and then He returned to...
May 10, 2018
Over half of the money that Americans spend on food goes for eating out in...
May 09, 2018
  Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) is a thinker I want to look into more, writing as...
May 09, 2018
We finally watched Avengers:  Infinity War.  The super villain in that story is Thanos, who has...
May 08, 2018
There are all kinds of negative emotions.  Not all of them are morally or spiritually...
May 08, 2018
The Golden State Killer raped more than 50 women and murdered 12 of them.  This...
May 07, 2018
Nathan Rinne, who blogs with Jordan Cooper at Just and Sinner here at Patheos, discusses...
May 07, 2018
How far is the Left going in the United States?  We now have American Maoists...
May 04, 2018
I have blogged about my former student John Ehrett, who wrote that perceptive review of...
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