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The Electoral College officially elected Donald Trump president.  Despite all of the efforts to persuade...

Connie Willis is an award-winning science fiction author and a deft satirist of contemporary foibles....

Christmas falls on a Sunday this year.  So once again, many congregations are CANCELLING SERVICES!...

The Electoral College meets today, with the designated electors meeting in state capitols to cast...

The internet contains unfathomable amounts of information.  Search engines allow us to find anything we...

Canadian researchers conducted a study of mainline Protestant churches (Anglican, Presbyterian, Uniting, and Evangelical Lutheran...

Starbucks is opening some exclusive "Reserve Roasteries and Tasting Rooms," which will offer high-end coffee...

Cushing, Oklahoma, is a town of about 7,000 close to where we live.  What makes...

The Supreme Court ruled in 1984 that Nativity scenes in publicly-owned spaces are legal.  As...

Americans have a very high literacy rate.  The problem is, though people can read, many...

Christianity Today has announced its 2017 book awards.  The list of winners in all of...

Let's start a series of posts on ideas for Christmas presents!  Here is a good...

Donald Trump chose Rex Tillerson, the C.E.O. of ExxonMobil, to be Secretary of State.  As...

The Ohio state legislature has passed two abortion bills that Gov. John Kasich has now...

The Gideons do great work in distributing Bibles.  For many decades, virtually every hotel room...

The reason the Democrats lost, argues David Bernstein in the Washington Post, is that their words,...

Macy's department store no longer funds or matches contributions to Planned Parenthood.  Neither do AT&T,...

More prophecies of the coming of Christ for our Advent contemplation:  Isaiah 35, yesterday's Old...

The CIA says that Russia deliberately interfered in the American election in order to help...

Big cities seem to get most of the attention.  People debate their merits compared with...

Thomas Oden has died.  A prominent liberal theologian who replaced pastoral care with psychotherapy, Oden...

Donald Trump's choices for his cabinet and other high-level positions in his administration are interesting, to...

The victory of Donald Trump--along with other political insurgencies in England, France, Italy, and other...

A new book by Gerry Bowler entitled Christmas in the Crosshairs:  Two Thousand Years of Denouncing...

Time Magazine's Person of the Year is Donald Trump.  Of course it was.  Who else...

Contrary to the stereotypes about ancient and medieval knowledge and totally contradicting Mark Twain's depiction in Connecticut Yankee of...

Today is the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.   The Daily Oklahoman...

Notice how many movies are about vocation.  For example, consider Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson's movie...

Tony Campolo and some other liberal evangelicals have started a movement they call "Red Letter...

Television ratings are way down for professional football games.  The NFL is trying to figure...