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June 2021

June 22, 2021
The Republican Party's "three-legged stool" of the Christian right, business interests, and neo-conservatives is coming...
June 21, 2021
Hermann Sasse on how the Lutheran church is different from both the Roman Catholic Church...
June 18, 2021
We now have the work of art that defines our age, just as Michelangelo's David...
June 17, 2021
Research about how parents transmit their faith to their children raises the question: Is religion...
June 16, 2021
America's religious landscape is being reshaped not only by the "Nones," those who have no...
June 15, 2021
Bailouts, fiscal stimulus, and massive government spending on top of a booming economy have brought...
June 14, 2021
Americans have lost faith in the government, business, schools, the media, and the church.  What...
June 11, 2021
We are told to trust science, follow the science, and make decisions according to science. ...
June 10, 2021
When we think of Luther's thought as it relates to culture and our life in...
June 09, 2021
Imagine that James Bond, the dashing spy with a license to kill who keeps saving...
June 08, 2021
We've been watching the Sean Connery James Bond movies (streaming free at Pluto and Tubi),...
June 07, 2021
Christians often use "worldview" in confused ways. Lutherans look at the concept differently than the...
June 04, 2021
A study has found that only 6% of Americans and only 9% of Christians have...
June 03, 2021
The French philosopher and activist Simone Weil was converted to Christianity, but she declined to...
June 02, 2021
The story of how Simone Weil--the French Jewish philosopher, social justice activist, and member of...
June 01, 2021
The pastor who leads a church body in fellowship with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod...

May 2021

May 31, 2021
President Biden has submitted his 2022 budget, which comes in at $6 trillion.  That would...
May 28, 2021
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's opposition to abortion is in the context of his theology of the body.
May 27, 2021
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a Lutheran theologian who is widely respected from all sides. So his...
May 26, 2021
According to new research, 43% of Millennials (aged 18-36), "don't know, don't care, or don't...
May 25, 2021
Our culture is sexually permissive, but that is not the same as valuing sex. An...
May 24, 2021
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that will, in effect, be a...
May 21, 2021
Just as very young children trust and depend on their parents, they can trust and...
May 20, 2021
Is secularism starting to lose its appeal? A European evangelist thinks so, citing five specific...
May 19, 2021
I'm interested in Christian art, and I just became aware of a remarkable--and twisted--example. "The...
May 18, 2021
When Christianity has the active support of the government, it declines.  When it faces competition...
May 17, 2021
Some are hailing the CDC's new ruling that the vaccinated no longer need to wear...
May 14, 2021
American evangelicals and other conservative Christians are agonizing over the extent to which they should...
May 13, 2021
For the fourth year in a row, Finland is ranked as the happiest country in...
May 12, 2021
Andrew T. Walker recognizes the problems with cultural Christianity.  But he argues that it's not...
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