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June 2020

June 15, 2020
According to a recent poll, 80% of Americans believe that the country is "spiraling out...
June 12, 2020
A study of pet ownership has found that religious people are just as likely to...
June 11, 2020
The post-liberal order is shaping up to be neo-feudalism: The role of the church is...
June 10, 2020
The online services from Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Adelaide, Australia, have such high production values...
June 09, 2020
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have clinched their party's presidential nomination. Right now, Biden...
June 08, 2020
A look at our current troubles--racism, police brutality, protests, and riots--from the perspective of the...
June 05, 2020
Churches have implemented social-distancing and hygiene protocols for the COVID-19 epidemic. But even after this...
June 04, 2020
The epidemic has forced churches to resort to online services.  But now some church growth...
June 03, 2020
Nathanael Blake points out that we not only need to study Western civilization, we need...
June 02, 2020
Why did ancient Rome, despite its religious tolerance and enlightened legal system, persecute Christians? A...
June 01, 2020
Riots sparked by police violence, protests against the COVID-19 shutdown, economic devastation, political dysfunction, and...

May 2020

May 29, 2020
Yes, the coronavirus lockdown has been terrible.  But a study has found that, on the...
May 28, 2020
The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck, featuring the adoration of the Lamb of God,...
May 27, 2020
When same-sex marriage was legalized, many observers foresaw still more redefinitions of marriage.  Now Utah,...
May 26, 2020
The two Minnesota districts of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, along with the Catholic Archdiocese,...
May 25, 2020
Memorial Day is a time to remember those who gave their lives for us and...
May 22, 2020
The COVID-19 epidemic has forced churches to worship online. It's possible to hear a sermon...
May 21, 2020
In the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic, officials, worried about an overwhelmed health care...
May 20, 2020
Today's leftists tend to be from the affluent middle class, while the rightists tend to...
May 19, 2020
Why haven't governments required social distancing, stay at home orders, and economic lockdowns in other...
May 18, 2020
Will there be animals--particularly, our pets--in Heaven, or, to be more exact, in the Resurrection...
May 15, 2020
Some Christians, particularly younger adults, are reacting against secularism and contemporary Christianity by embracing "anti-modern"...
May 14, 2020
Modernists assumed that science will answer all questions, even as it "disenchants" the physical world....
May 13, 2020
Ideas for the next round of coronavirus bailouts include paying virtually every American $2,000 per...
May 12, 2020
Does singing in church risk spreading the coronavirus by projecting respiratory particles in the air?...
May 11, 2020
Our state, Oklahoma, is "opening up" from the coronavirus shutdown so we were able to...
May 08, 2020
Religion waxes and wanes in a culture and throughout history.  It can fade away, but...
May 07, 2020
According to the new American Enterprise study of American religion, the decline in church membership and...
May 06, 2020
The American Enterprise Institute study of American religion finds reasons why societies become less religious....
May 05, 2020
The American Enterprise Institute has released an important study of American religion. It finds that...
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