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September 2024

September 13, 2024
What are your thoughts about the debate between our presidential candidates?
September 12, 2024
There is a woke left.  But there is also a woke right. And the two...
September 11, 2024
Many observers have noticed that when religion declines, other things--most noticably politics--rush in to fill...
September 10, 2024
Synonyms are two words that have the same meaning.  They are often used interchangeably.  And...
September 09, 2024
The problem with 15-week abortion bans; Switzerland is reconsidering its neutrality; and leftist dictator changes...
September 06, 2024
According to conventional conservative wisdom, big government is a threat to freedom, while small government...
September 06, 2024
Should internet platforms, the companies that operate them, and the people who work for them...
September 05, 2024
To the many different kinds of conservatism today, we can add Leftwing Conservatism. This is...
September 04, 2024
Donald Trump is usually portrayed as a right wing extremist. But Batya Ungar-Sargon argues that...
September 03, 2024
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the split in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod...
September 02, 2024
In this Vocation Day (a.k.a. Labor Day) Miscellany, we reflect on how one in five...

August 2024

August 30, 2024
An article on women bringing back the old custom of wearing veils at mass quotes...
August 30, 2024
To Philip Klein, Trump's pledge to uphold women's "reproductive rights" means that "Trump’s Abandonment of...
August 29, 2024
Many secularists are starting to believe in God.  Not because they have been evangelized (though...
August 28, 2024
(A free post.) A sample from my new book "Embracing Your Lutheran Identity." In our...
August 27, 2024
(A free post.) Two years ago, I wrote a post entitled "Teaching Lutheran Identity" about...
August 26, 2024
Putin offers conservatives sanctuary in Russia; consciousness detected in 25% of the comatose; and watch...
August 23, 2024
In San Francisco, the cool place to be is in church.  That is to say,...
August 23, 2024
What are you thoughts about the Democratic National Convention?
August 22, 2024
Kamala Harris has announced her economic policy, which includes price controls. But regardless of ideology...
August 21, 2024
Tracing the origin of the story from yesterday's post about the ox who is ready...
August 20, 2024
A meditation based on a Roman coin depicting an ox that faces two possibilities:  he...
August 19, 2024
The UK might extradite us Americans and put us in jail for what we post...
August 16, 2024
Our choice between Harris and Trump offers us a "political binary."  We have a two-party...
August 16, 2024
Did you watch the Olympics?  If so, what were your highlights and lowlights?  Can you...
August 15, 2024
"Even in churches that have stayed faithful to biblical orthodoxy," observes Christian historian Thomas Kidd,...
August 14, 2024
When we confess the Nicene Creed, we say that the Holy Spirit, "proceeds
from
the
Father
and
 the
Son."  But...
August 13, 2024
Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, is a Lutheran. This will doubtless...
August 12, 2024
The "vibes" election.  Google is an illegal monopoly.  And Hindu nationalists court American conservatives.
August 09, 2024
After World War II and during the Cold War, it was said that America is...
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