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June 2018

June 03, 2018
Religion has its beliefs, but it also has a social dimension, with governance, organization, finance,...
June 01, 2018
Fellow Patheos blogger Tom Hobson, a Presbyterian pastor with a doctorate from Concordia Seminary, has...
June 01, 2018
Brian Truitt of USA Today complains that there isn't any sex in the Star Wars universe...

May 2018

May 31, 2018
In the ancient world, people read out loud, even when they were by themselves.  Thus,...
May 31, 2018
Human beings seem to have a need for rituals at some level.  Religions are traditionally...
May 30, 2018
Carl Trueman, in the course of his post If Only Francis Were Luther that we blogged...
May 30, 2018
The fertility rate in the United States has taken a nose-dive, dropping to 1.76 births...
May 29, 2018
A number of observers are comparing Pope Francis to Martin Luther.  Both are reformers of...
May 29, 2018
Love in the Ruins (1972) is a dark, comic, disturbing, and yet profoundly Christian novel...
May 28, 2018
Memorial Day should include memories.  The holiday was established specifically to remember those who died defending...
May 28, 2018
My son-in-law Adam Hensley,  Old Testament Lecturer at Australian Lutheran College, has just published his book Covenant...
May 26, 2018
Ireland once saved civilization, keeping Christianity and the classical tradition alive, during the barbarian invasions...
May 25, 2018
A number of conservative thinkers, in trying to address the political and cultural problems of...
May 24, 2018
  Evangelicals who support Donald Trump are receiving harsh criticism, both from other Christians and...
May 23, 2018
Leading Democrats in the Senate have introduced a bill that would amend the Religious Freedom...
May 23, 2018
President Trump is bringing back a Reagan-era rule that would prevent federal "family planning" money...
May 22, 2018
I quite randomly stumbled upon this quotation from Lutheran theologian Hermann Sasse*, the anti-Nazi activist...
May 22, 2018
We had yet another high school shooting, with 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis in Santa Fe, Texas, prowling...
May 21, 2018
Yesterday was another major holy-day:  Pentecost, fifty days after the resurrection of Christ and ten...
May 18, 2018
In a review of Jonah Goldberg's The Suicide of the West in The Federalist, John...
May 18, 2018
In our recent post, The Vocation of a Spy, we discussed whether espionage is a...
May 17, 2018
According to a new study, the number of white evangelicals is dropping precipitously, to the...
May 17, 2018
In the jungles of Brazil, some tribes kill children who are disabled, who were born...
May 16, 2018
Tom Wolfe, 88, has died. The pioneer of "New Journalism," which uses fictional techniques--an interior point...
May 16, 2018
The medical profession enjoys some of the highest level of respect in the country, and...
May 15, 2018
The always-interesting Peter Leithart, a fellow Patheos blogger, discusses Systematic Theology, II: The Works of God (2001)...
May 14, 2018
Normally, the leadership of important government agencies like the CIA goes to politicians, campaign allies,...
May 11, 2018
More on the Ascension of Christ. . . .I keep reading on evangelical sites that...
May 11, 2018
Last month a man in Toronto drove his car into a crowd of people, killing...
May 10, 2018
The resurrected Jesus was with His disciples for 40 days, and then He returned to...
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