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December 2013

December 23, 2013
When we think of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and other civil liberties, we...
December 20, 2013
Sean Morris posts on how the classic Christmas carols draw on the Nicene Creed as...
December 20, 2013
Matthew Schmitz explains the difference between "merry Christmas" and "happy Christmas" and why the former...
December 20, 2013
While we argue about a guaranteed minimum wage, Switzerland is considering a guaranteed minimum income. ...
December 19, 2013
"Post-Christian" does not mean the same as "non-Christian," observes John O'Sullivan.  A "post-Christian" society is...
December 19, 2013
"Let all mortal flesh keep silence" is a hymn about Holy Communion.  But now it...
December 19, 2013
The "Dear Leader" of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, has executed his uncle, who had...
December 18, 2013
Radio evangelist Harold Camping has died at the age of 92.  Best known for predicting...
December 18, 2013
A federal judge has ruled that Utah laws against polygamy are unconstitutional. From Utah Polygamy...
December 18, 2013
You will note that I have mostly resisted the temptation to conflate Advent with the...
December 18, 2013
Target has hired former CIA operative Jonna Mendez as an online "Kid's Gift Detective" to...
December 17, 2013
Classical scholar Peter Brown has published in the New York Review of Books an excited...
December 17, 2013
A Lutheran pastor, Guntars Baikovs, originally from Latvia but a St. Louis seminary Ph.D., has...
December 17, 2013
The European Parliament shot down a sweeping pro-abortion law, which would make abortion on demand...
December 17, 2013
A big legal setback for the NSA surveillance program: A federal judge ruled Monday that...
December 16, 2013
A teenager who killed four people in a drunk driving accident was given probation after...
December 16, 2013
Scientists have discovered that DNA contains not just one but two languages, superimposed over each...
December 16, 2013
A white, non-Arabic American who converted to Islam by reading jihadist sites on the internet...
December 13, 2013
Continuing our earlier discussion about denominations and non-denominations, we need to consider another factor:  church...
December 13, 2013
It's almost too easy to make fun of us Baby Boomers.  But satirist P. J....
December 13, 2013
The FBI has some new crime-fighting technology in its collective utility belt.  FBI-employed hackers can...
December 12, 2013
Time Magazine announced its Person of the Year for 2013:  Pope Francis.  That's a good...
December 12, 2013
Canada is asserting its sovereignty over the North Pole.  It is claiming that the Canadian...
December 12, 2013
Apparently terrorists, military operatives, and spies in real life also like to pretend that they...
December 11, 2013
Daniel A. Siedell relates the Sabbath, the Gospel, and Vocation: Amazon has just announced that...
December 11, 2013
He knows when you've been sleeping.  He knows when you're away.  He knows if you've...
December 11, 2013
Here are five bits of social science research that would indicate a person is unlikely...
December 10, 2013
Sociologist of religion Peter Berger (an ELCA Lutheran) discusses the phenomenon of the Sunday Assembly,...
December 10, 2013
One of the banes of contemporary literature, in my opinion, is the obligatory sex scene,...
December 10, 2013
Republicans in Congress tried to cut the deficit by letting the government shut down, being...
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