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March 2015

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...
March 24, 2015
Robert Putnam's book Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis continues to get attention.  Michael...
March 24, 2015
A review of two books on what today's technology does to privacy quotes a useful...
March 24, 2015
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared that he is running for president, the first candidate to...
March 23, 2015
Christians worldwide have been facing intense persecution.  But now some of them are fighting back. ...
March 23, 2015
A major opinion poll has found that Americans want BOTH more government spending AND lower...
March 23, 2015
The Washington Post has a fascinating article about a manifesto written in 1996 entitled  A...
March 21, 2015
Rev. Adam Roe, in his series on vocation at Mission: Work, observes that Philip Melanchthon,...
March 20, 2015
Church attendance and other marks of religious observance are in decline, but a new study...
March 20, 2015
Which is better?  A society characterized by cultural diversity?  Or a society in which its...
March 20, 2015
The Barna pollsters have released a study of what factors tie into Americans' self-identity.  The...
March 19, 2015
Last Sunday one of our Scripture readings was about the children of Israel complaining in...
March 19, 2015
President Obama appeared to endorse mandatory voting as a way to get money out of...
March 19, 2015
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has formally expanded its definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. ...
March 18, 2015
In the second in Mission Work's series on a Lutheran perspective on faith & work,...
March 18, 2015
Feminism and gender politics in general may be coming apart, since gender  identity is being...
March 18, 2015
As Christians are preoccupied with the thought that the culture is carrying on a war...
March 17, 2015
The true meaning of St. Patrick's Day, which is today, is not to honor Ireland...
March 17, 2015
Before Robert Putnam there was Patrick Moynihan, the social scientist and later Democratic Senator from...
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