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January 2020

January 01, 2020
The custom on this blog on New Year's Day is for readers to predict what...

December 2019

December 31, 2019
We celebrate New Years' Eve by staying up past midnight, singing Auld Lang Syne, and checking our...
December 30, 2019
A look at the Associated Press top stories of 2019 and NBC's top stories of...
December 27, 2019
My list of religious developments, focusing on Christianity, that took place in 2019 and that...
December 26, 2019
The Julius Caesar's calendar began the year with January, named after Janus, the god of...
December 25, 2019
Winter is a time of darkness, cold, and lifelessness. And yet, Christmas, unlike other winter...
December 24, 2019
I wanted to give all of you readers of this blog, whom I appreciate very...
December 23, 2019
A fixture of Christmas decor is the nativity scene, the depictions of Mary, Joseph, and...
December 20, 2019
Some economists, policy-makers, and politicians are calling for the revival of the Biblical principle of...
December 19, 2019
In the controversy over the value of liberal democracy, it's hard to see how Luther...
December 18, 2019
The House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump.   Now the Senate will...
December 18, 2019
The United States has the world's highest rates of children who live with only one...
December 17, 2019
"If Christ had arrived with trumpets and lain in a cradle of gold, his birth...
December 16, 2019
Liberal-minded, non-religious Great Britain gave its Conservative Party and Trump-like Prime Minister Boris Johnson a...
December 13, 2019
The early Church Growth Movement promoted the use of marketing techniques to attract as many...
December 12, 2019
Animal lovers who have pets, we are now told, are violating animal rights.  And having...
December 11, 2019
Works of art--whether paintings or literature or crafts--make outstanding Christmas presents.  They are unique.  They...
December 11, 2019
The book by my good friend Hal Senkbeil, "The Care of Souls:  Cultivating a Pastor's...
December 10, 2019
Guilt is a universal feeling, since none of us fallen creatures can live up to...
December 09, 2019
Is bad theology that has been taken over into secular thinking--namely, the view that substances...
December 06, 2019
One of the legal experts who testified in the House Impeachment hearings said that what...
December 05, 2019
New Atheism is reportedly fading. Not that there are fewer atheists--their numbers have gone up...
December 04, 2019
Faith and reason need each other.  Faith without reason can degenerate into superstition and fanaticism. ...
December 03, 2019
The biggest demographic of the unchurched is the white working class. This is confirmed in...
December 02, 2019
Research from Barna on the general public's perception of evangelicals shows that 25% of Americans...

November 2019

November 29, 2019
On the day after Thanksgiving, shoppers plunge into "Black Friday," the decorations go up, and...
November 28, 2019
On Thanksgiving we express gratitude for our material belongings, for our family, for our country. ...
November 27, 2019
Christianity has brought much good to the world, but the church also has much to...
November 26, 2019
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, is also a Christian cultural critic. In a recent speech, he...
November 25, 2019
Americans increasingly have stopped going out, choosing to just stay home, preferably by themselves.  This...
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