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June 2021

June 02, 2021
The story of how Simone Weil--the French Jewish philosopher, social justice activist, and member of...
June 01, 2021
The pastor who leads a church body in fellowship with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod...

May 2021

May 31, 2021
President Biden has submitted his 2022 budget, which comes in at $6 trillion.  That would...
May 28, 2021
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's opposition to abortion is in the context of his theology of the body.
May 27, 2021
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a Lutheran theologian who is widely respected from all sides. So his...
May 26, 2021
According to new research, 43% of Millennials (aged 18-36), "don't know, don't care, or don't...
May 25, 2021
Our culture is sexually permissive, but that is not the same as valuing sex. An...
May 24, 2021
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that will, in effect, be a...
May 21, 2021
Just as very young children trust and depend on their parents, they can trust and...
May 20, 2021
Is secularism starting to lose its appeal? A European evangelist thinks so, citing five specific...
May 19, 2021
I'm interested in Christian art, and I just became aware of a remarkable--and twisted--example. "The...
May 18, 2021
When Christianity has the active support of the government, it declines.  When it faces competition...
May 17, 2021
Some are hailing the CDC's new ruling that the vaccinated no longer need to wear...
May 14, 2021
American evangelicals and other conservative Christians are agonizing over the extent to which they should...
May 13, 2021
For the fourth year in a row, Finland is ranked as the happiest country in...
May 12, 2021
Andrew T. Walker recognizes the problems with cultural Christianity.  But he argues that it's not...
May 11, 2021
Many people today reject "institutional" religion and the "institutional church."  Do they have a point? ...
May 10, 2021
Among the plethora of marriage variations available today, we now have people who are marrying...
May 07, 2021
Karl Marx said that religion is the opium of the people, but by that he...
May 06, 2021
"Being a free American requires practically loving your neighbors so that the government doesn’t have...
May 05, 2021
Voters in both Colorado and Oregon are considering referendum petitions that would not only restrict...
May 04, 2021
We keep hearing that Christianity has been sullied by politics.  That complaint usually is against...
May 03, 2021
President Biden's "American Families Plan" will institute universal pre-kindergarten for children, starting at age 3....

April 2021

April 30, 2021
Some explanations of the substitutionary atonement are abstract, rationalistic, and legalistic. Luther, though, avoids that.
April 29, 2021
Many contemporary Christians are drawing back from the doctrine of the substitutionary atonement--that Christ bore...
April 28, 2021
The Reformers said that the doctrine of justification--that is, how sinners are put right with...
April 27, 2021
Why we believe certain things is a fascinating question.  Why we don't believe in certain...
April 26, 2021
Big corporations are increasingly taking on the functions of government, to the point of overriding...
April 23, 2021
The new edition of my book "Spirituality of the Cross" has been endorsed by some...
April 22, 2021
To explain why I think this new edition of my book "Spirituality of the Cross"...
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