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May 2013

May 03, 2013
The esteemed Anthony Bradley describes a "new legalism" stemming from the vogue of so-called "radical"...
May 03, 2013
What's the best book by Martin Luther to start with?  The answer is simple:   The...
May 03, 2013
As a sequel to our earlier post on how American-style craft beers are catching on...
May 02, 2013
Confessional Lutherans get excoriated for not admitting members of other churches to the Lord's Supper,...
May 02, 2013
How persecution begins: The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted...
May 02, 2013
A noted sports figure came out of the closet.  Not Jason Collins of the NBA...
May 01, 2013
In the appreciation-for-Lutheranism-by-non-Lutherans department, here is a post by Cap Stewart at Happier Far.  It...
May 01, 2013
The "morning after" pill, designed to induce abortion immediately after sex, will now be available...
May 01, 2013
In my book Modern Fascism, I explore the way various still-respectable strains of modern and...
May 01, 2013
This is the first of May, celebrated as a spring festival in many cultures as...

April 2013

April 30, 2013
I keep running into conservative, confessional Lutherans (including on this blog) who, in their political...
April 30, 2013
Robert J. Samuelson sees a shift underway in Americans' expectations: We are passing through something...
April 30, 2013
Here is something we can thank the Islamic world for:  coffee.  BBC gives an interesting...
April 29, 2013
Rev. Michael Schuermann calls out the president for confusing his office and for taking God's...
April 29, 2013
Interesting findings reported in Christianity Today, including a nice shout-out to Lutheran schools (the largest...
April 29, 2013
Arman J. Partamian has written a fascinating piece entitled "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Catholic Imagination." ...
April 26, 2013
Rod Dreher, a Christian writer of the Orthodox persuasion,  has written a provocative article for...
April 26, 2013
Feds spend at least $890,000 on fees for empty accounts - The Washington Post.  (Every...
April 26, 2013
Remember Lori Lewis, who used to be a frequent commenter on this blog?  She is...
April 25, 2013
Tim Keller, the well-respected pastor of Redeemer Prebyterian Church in New York, City, has written...
April 25, 2013
Interesting piece from the BBC about how the FBI conducts interrogations of terrorist suspects.  And...
April 25, 2013
Somebody hacked into the Twitter account of the Associated Press, no less, and put out...
April 24, 2013
There was a time (I'm sounding old) when community activities were never planned on Sunday...
April 24, 2013
I suspect that the Boston Marathon bombings may complicate the two big issues facing Congress...
April 24, 2013
Mathew Block, in the course of correcting a media error, explains that the Protestant state...
April 23, 2013
I stumbled upon He Rice Tanned (read it fast), a collection of sometimes humorous Luther...
April 23, 2013
Movies that are explicitly Christian are often moralistic and preachy, with characters that are stereotyped...
April 23, 2013
In my field of higher education, the big idea is assessment.  Accreditors are requiring that...
April 22, 2013
Atheists in Boston are complaining that they haven't been invited to participate in the interfaith...
April 22, 2013
Here is a fascinating account of the police work that led to the identification and...
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