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November 2021

November 18, 2021
We have become risk averse, says Damon Linker, a trend heightened by government and technology....
November 17, 2021
Polarization and conflict in a society are not necessarily bad, but they can be. Unity...
November 16, 2021
Americans, we keep hearing, are polarized.  But it's worse than that.  There is polarization in...
November 15, 2021
Reactions to recent court decisions indicate that many Americans have forgotten the importance of the...
November 12, 2021
In light of same-sex marriage, some couples and pastors are wanting to repudiate state laws...
November 11, 2021
Many of the "essential workers" lauded in the early days of the pandemic would lose...
November 10, 2021
In 1993, I published "Modern Fascism," about the ideas that defined fascism and their revival...
November 09, 2021
American confessional Lutherans may feel beleaguered at times, but they should realize that they have...
November 08, 2021
Last Tuesday's election was a "red wave" that swept over much of the nation, with...
November 05, 2021
Parents are insisting that public schools should not be centers for indoctrinating their children.  But...
November 04, 2021
Young adults are abandoning the church in droves. Evidently, the "youth group" strategy many churches...
November 03, 2021
Lutherans and Anglicans have similarities, but also major differences. But Lutherans can learn from the...
November 02, 2021
A growing number of young women--some of them in their teens--are not only choosing not...
November 01, 2021
Our models and our expectations for "successful" churches tend to focus on growing in numbers. ...

October 2021

October 29, 2021
For Reformation Day, the four ways the Reformation differed from Catholicism and the myth of...
October 28, 2021
The Constitution forbids the government from prohibiting the "free exercise of religion." That refers to...
October 27, 2021
The rise of "advocacy philanthropy," in which wealthy donors and their foundations spend vast sums...
October 26, 2021
What's with Donald Trump telling Republicans that, unless his claims that the election was stolen...
October 25, 2021
Does it seem like the world has gone mad? Bari Weiss, the ex-New York Times...
October 22, 2021
While most people's preoccupation with the economy is usually about creating jobs, our economy now...
October 21, 2021
A controversy has broken out among evangelical Christians on whether Christians should fight the culture...
October 20, 2021
Historian Nadya Williams discusses the concept in ancient Rome of "otium," or leisure, as opposed...
October 19, 2021
The Bible assigns a very high status to old people. But it doesn't draw back...
October 18, 2021
Harvard professor James Hankins notes that classical education used to be associated with the elite....
October 15, 2021
Today I attain my Biblical allotment of three score years and ten, that is to...
October 14, 2021
One of the puzzles in J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings...
October 13, 2021
Because of the COVID restrictions, thousands of thousands of sermons from all kinds and sizes...
October 12, 2021
What if the 52% of Republicans and 41% of Democrats get their wish to split...
October 11, 2021
A billlion is a thousand million. But a trillion is a million million.
October 08, 2021
How wrestling with the ideas of Ayn Rand--her attacks on Christianity and her "virtue of...
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