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August 2021

August 26, 2021
There are social conservatives, free-market conservatives, and neo-conservatives. Now another kind of conservatives has emerged,...
August 25, 2021
The Book of Ecclesiastes, while making us face up to the "vanity" of life "under...
August 24, 2021
Some observers are seeing a schism developing among evangelicals, mainly for political and cultural reasons....
August 23, 2021
An article applies critical race theory to the war in Afghanistan and the victory of...
August 20, 2021
Robert Benne quotes Luther on the necessity of Christian confession at the points where the...
August 19, 2021
The biggest categories of the vaccine hesitant are not evangelicals but Nones, not Trump supporters...
August 18, 2021
There were alternatives to the chaotic pullout from Afghanistan: an orderly retreat, in which the...
August 17, 2021
Having pets is a good thing, bringing out valuable emotions and instincts in human beings....
August 16, 2021
History is repeating itself as the Fall of Saigon is being replicated in the Fall...
August 13, 2021
A historian writes about the attempt of some Buddhists in the Soviet Union to change...
August 12, 2021
In my opinion, informed by decades of literary study, one of the greatest stories in...
August 11, 2021
Worshipping with a hymnal has many advantages over projecting praise songs over a screen.  And...
August 10, 2021
The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill includes a provision requiring all new car makers to...
August 09, 2021
The eviction moratorium fiasco exemplifies much that is bad and incompetent about our government.
August 06, 2021
On August 7, 2021, Jackie and I will have been married 50 years. We did...
August 05, 2021
A Harvard history professor sees parallels between our cultural problems and those of the 14th...
August 04, 2021
Woke culture is now going beyond the humanities and the social sciences to the hard...
August 03, 2021
Sports have become depressing.  Everywhere I look--the Olympics, professional sports, college athletics--I see scandal, controversy,...
August 02, 2021
You can break down COVID vaccination statistics by race, politics, and religion. But you can...

July 2021

July 30, 2021
Scientists are finding it impossible to find a physical cause for consciousness. So instead of...
July 29, 2021
Conservatives have long been accused of having "authoritarian" tendencies, while liberals promoted freedom. But today...
July 28, 2021
A Mel Brooks joke, the Catholic controversy over the Latin Mass, the worship wars, the...
July 27, 2021
Karen Prior rejects critical race theory, but she still sees a systemic dimension to racism....
July 26, 2021
Critical race theory opposes the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Their reasons demonstrate the...
July 23, 2021
Conservatives and Christians are associated with the culture wars. But the most aggressive culture warriors...
July 22, 2021
Democrats' claims that state attempts at election reform are a return to "Jim Crow" and...
July 21, 2021
When, if ever, should a person leave a congregation or a denomination?
July 20, 2021
What Paul means when he warns against Christians saying they follow Paul, Apollos, Cephas, or...
July 16, 2021
Satire has a long pedigree as a conservative literary form. But social media sites are...
July 15, 2021
New research on religion in America has some surprising findings that go against the conventional...
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