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May 2015

May 08, 2015
A Baptist minister has stirred controversy within his tradition by baptizing an infant.  Yet it...
May 08, 2015
OK, what I am about to tell you is gross, even horrific.  And (trigger warning...
May 08, 2015
The  Encyclopedia of Christian Education  has been released today, a three-volume reference book packed with...
May 07, 2015
Liberation Theology, which teaches that Christianity demands radical social and economic change, is a major...
May 07, 2015
The evidence is overwhelming that growing up in an intact, two-parent  loving family confers huge...
May 07, 2015
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal says that corporate America is foolish to ally with leftists in...
May 06, 2015
In Judaism, it's fairly common to hear, "I'm an atheist, but I'm culturally Jewish."  So...
May 06, 2015
Now former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has announced that he too is running for president. ...
May 05, 2015
Yesterday we blogged about Rachel Held Evan's contention that church growth techniques designed to reach...
May 05, 2015
A free speech group sponsored an exhibit of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad in Garland,...
May 05, 2015
Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlitt-Packard, announced that she is running for president.  The...
May 04, 2015
Rachel Held Evans was something of an evangelical renegade who left the church for awhile,...
May 04, 2015
A number of prominent Christian leaders are threatening civil disobedience if the Supreme Court rules...
May 04, 2015
Ben Carson will announce today that he is running for president.  One of the country's...
May 01, 2015
Last Sunday was the day in the church year when the regular round of Bible...
May 01, 2015
An exchange between a Supreme Court Justice and the Solicitor General: Justice Alito: In the...
May 01, 2015
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent who identifies himself as a Socialist, is running for...

April 2015

April 30, 2015
Michael Avramovich observes that "In the ancient Roman world, Christians were referred to as 'hostis...
April 30, 2015
With a warrant, law enforcement agencies have been able to put a tap on a...
April 30, 2015
Teachers, who have big clout in the Democratic Party, don't like standardized testing, a major...
April 29, 2015
Hillary Clinton says that "religious beliefs. . .have to be changed" when they interfere with...
April 29, 2015
You know the Christian bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay...
April 29, 2015
Imagine two professional baseball teams playing each other but not letting any fans watch the...
April 28, 2015
Pastor Mark Schroeder cites a rather compelling quotation on worship from Klemet Preus: “If the...
April 28, 2015
Today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether state laws defining marriage as...
April 28, 2015
Lehigh professor Henry J. Barkey points out that the institution of the nation-state is virtually...
April 27, 2015
Rev. Christopher Jackson informed me that the new Prime Minister of Finland is a Laestadian...
April 27, 2015
Christopher Walker tells how authoritarian governments are trying to make themselves seem legitimate by constructing...
April 27, 2015
A massive earthquake, hitting 7.8 on the Richter scale, hit Nepal, killing at last count...
April 24, 2015
Now that Hilary Mantel's superb novels about Thomas Cromwell have been made into a TV...
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