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August 2020

August 20, 2020
Today's coronavirus preoccupation with masks reminds us that God too wears a mask. It's called...
August 19, 2020
There are many contending versions of "conservatism." In an article saying that today's conservatives should...
August 18, 2020
Presidents usually lead their parties and take them in the direction they want them to...
August 17, 2020
As in the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920, exactly one hundred years ago,...
August 14, 2020
Abraham Kuyper, with his worldview analysis, gave us Francis Schaeffer, who arguably gave us the...
August 13, 2020
How is it that "coveting" rates inclusion in the Ten Commandments? After all, it doesn't...
August 12, 2020
Forgiveness in the personal, social, and political realm.
August 11, 2020
Russia will be interfering in the American election to elect Trump, according to U.S. intelligence,...
August 10, 2020
America is rightly criticized for its history of slavery. But slavers on an even bigger...
August 07, 2020
The murder rate is up 24% so far this year, with 3,612 killings.  And yet,...
August 06, 2020
In the United States, if you are conservative theologically, you will tend to be conservative...
August 05, 2020
Some in the Black Lives Matter protests are condemning America's founding. But the civil rights...
August 04, 2020
Though Lutherans are accused of submitting uncritically to government authorities, the Magdeburg Confession spells out...
August 03, 2020
The Lutheran Witness, the magazine of the LCMS, has a new internet presence, including a...

July 2020

July 31, 2020
There have been many cultures and civilizations that no longer exist. Some were destroyed by...
July 30, 2020
Congress is investigating Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon for possible antitrust violations. Pro-business Republicans and...
July 29, 2020
People used to sing at work, at play, and in their families. Music was not...
July 28, 2020
Kanye West is running for president. His proposal to pay women $1 million for every...
July 27, 2020
A poll has found that 63% of religious Americans believe the COVID-19 epidemic is a...
July 24, 2020
John Ruskin says that we admire certain professions--soldiers, physicians, pastors, and lawyers (?)--because of their...
July 23, 2020
Anthony Esolen's book "Defending Boys" explores the nature of boys, what they need, how they...
July 22, 2020
The baffling questions about the COVID-19 virus--why it affects people differently, contradictory findings about anti-bodies,...
July 21, 2020
Here in Oklahoma, we woke up a couple of weeks ago to learn that, according...
July 20, 2020
As we face sickness, death, economic disaster, uncertainty, fear, and every other kind of suffering,...
July 17, 2020
Now liberals and progressives are also being canceled--censored, derided, fired--by their fellow liberals and progressives....
July 16, 2020
America is exceptional both in its achievements and in its capacity for self-criticism.  Perhaps it's...
July 15, 2020
Why are so many academics and other "intellectuals" so radical in their politics, to the...
July 14, 2020
Science, the realm that purports to be totally objective, must now conform to the dictates...
July 13, 2020
A video about the patron of this blog, Lucas Cranach and his son, exploring their...
July 10, 2020
The scholastic theology of St. Thomas Aquinas was masterful in its systematic rigor. There was...
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