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November 2019

November 05, 2019
Political conflicts are normal and necessary in democracies.  But when the conflict is no longer...
November 04, 2019
The word about Lutheranism is getting around.
November 01, 2019
All Saints' Day celebrates everlasting life. It is bracketed by other holidays, the day before...

October 2019

October 31, 2019
Reforming means fixing what is broken, returning something to its essence. The contemporary church today,...
October 30, 2019
Disaffected evangelicals sometimes swim the Tiber, going over to Rome.  Others swim the Bosporous, to...
October 29, 2019
Americans are extremely polarized politically.  But this is not just a matter of ideology.  Advocates...
October 28, 2019
A majority of Americans (51%) want to revise the Bill of Right's guarantee of Freedom...
October 25, 2019
Our problem is not just that we have disagreements, but that we no longer have...
October 24, 2019
The major Democratic presidential candidates may sound like secularists, but they all have specific church...
October 23, 2019
There is a movement to ascribe "rights" to nature--rivers, trees, mountains, etc.--to provide legal grounds...
October 22, 2019
In "multi-site" churches, a congregation has multiple "campuses," sometimes spread across the country, all of...
October 21, 2019
In this strange presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has accused candidate Tulsi Gabbard of being a...
October 18, 2019
President Trump has brokered a ceasefire in Turkey's incursion into Syria against the Kurds. According...
October 18, 2019
Totalitarianism is the belief that the government should control the totality of human life.  Communists...
October 17, 2019
The Vatican has denied that the Pope said what journalist Eugenio Scalifari ascribed to him,...
October 16, 2019
As companies from the NBA to Apple Computer do whatever it takes to placate China,...
October 15, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke says that churches that oppose same-sex marriage should lose their...
October 14, 2019
The Kurds have been America's most steadfast allies--fighting side by side in Iraq, and defeating...
October 12, 2019
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize went to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiye Ahmed Ali, an evangelical...
October 11, 2019
Sunday is Pastor Appreciation Day, and October is Pastor Appreciation Month.  We should indeed appreciate...
October 10, 2019
Pope Francis is quoted as having denied the central tenet of Christianity: the deity of...
October 10, 2019
When Brandt Jean in that Dallas courtroom forgave the woman who killed his brother, he...
October 09, 2019
Mary Eberstadt, one of our most perceptive cultural analysts, shows how weakened family connections have...
October 08, 2019
Classic horror tales, like Dracula, depict good vs. evil. But today's horror genre tends to...
October 07, 2019
Affluent college-educated white Democrats are further to the left than working class, Hispanic, and African-American...
October 04, 2019
Christians have long struggled with the competing claims of faith and good works.  Luther makes...
October 03, 2019
During the Cold War, Americans were united in opposing communism. Chinese communism is more successful...
October 02, 2019
America's political polarization is tearing apart friendships, families, and churches. And now it's affecting the...
October 01, 2019
The fastest growing church in the world is in Iran, which is now undergoing an...

September 2019

September 30, 2019
It seems a foregone conclusion that the House of Representatives will vote to impeach President...
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