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January 2020

January 24, 2020
The medical journal Lancet has published a positive review of a book that associates the...
January 23, 2020
A vital, growing church has lots of young families.  A church in Minnesota wants to...
January 22, 2020
The movie "1917" appears to have been photographed in one long continuous shot, without the...
January 21, 2020
As scholars have been demonstrating, Christianity has played a major role in the rise of...
January 20, 2020
If power and privilege are always oppressive, as postmodern critical theorists maintain, then God, whose...
January 17, 2020
In discussing the drop in the fertility rate in the affluent, well-educated demographic, Joy Pullman...
January 16, 2020
Acts 25-26 tells of Paul's appearance before Agrippa, the king of Judaea, and his sister...
January 15, 2020
"Hate" has become another all-purpose term of opprobrium, like "Nazi."  If you oppose someone for...
January 14, 2020
The leading cause of death throughout the world in 2019 was not heart disease or...
January 13, 2020
Our new class system is not based on the socio-economic hierarchies of upper, middle, and...
January 10, 2020
Millennials are increasingly leaving the church and, unlike other generations, they are not coming back...
January 09, 2020
Peter Burfeind writes about the connection between self-love and melancholy, tracing today's separation between the...
January 08, 2020
Speculation has arisen about the possibility of robots serving as ministers. Already robots have been...
January 07, 2020
The United Methodist Church has arrived at an agreement that will accept same-sex marriage and...
January 06, 2020
The lethal drone known as the Reaper that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani may have ignited...
January 03, 2020
Pope Francis has said that Christians should not try to "convince" non-Christians to change their...
January 02, 2020
Medical science is learning more and more about pregnancy and fetal development.  We now know...
January 01, 2020
The custom on this blog on New Year's Day is for readers to predict what...

December 2019

December 31, 2019
We celebrate New Years' Eve by staying up past midnight, singing Auld Lang Syne, and checking our...
December 30, 2019
A look at the Associated Press top stories of 2019 and NBC's top stories of...
December 27, 2019
My list of religious developments, focusing on Christianity, that took place in 2019 and that...
December 26, 2019
The Julius Caesar's calendar began the year with January, named after Janus, the god of...
December 25, 2019
Winter is a time of darkness, cold, and lifelessness. And yet, Christmas, unlike other winter...
December 24, 2019
I wanted to give all of you readers of this blog, whom I appreciate very...
December 23, 2019
A fixture of Christmas decor is the nativity scene, the depictions of Mary, Joseph, and...
December 20, 2019
Some economists, policy-makers, and politicians are calling for the revival of the Biblical principle of...
December 19, 2019
In the controversy over the value of liberal democracy, it's hard to see how Luther...
December 18, 2019
The House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump.   Now the Senate will...
December 18, 2019
The United States has the world's highest rates of children who live with only one...
December 17, 2019
"If Christ had arrived with trumpets and lain in a cradle of gold, his birth...
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