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December 2017

December 14, 2017
Roman Catholics venerate Mary, the mother of Jesus, with many titles:  Queen of Heaven (the notion that...
December 14, 2017
Republican Roy Moore lost the senate race to liberal Democrat Doug Jones in deeply conservative...
December 13, 2017
Should we start with the teaching we want to convey and then devise a translation...
December 13, 2017
One of our inalienable rights, according to the Declaration of Independence, is "the pursuit of...
December 12, 2017
Hanukkah starts today, December 12, and lasts until December 20.  Jesus Himself observed it, as...
December 12, 2017
President Trump's announcement that he will move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem...
December 11, 2017
We often think of God as an abstract idea, as an impersonal force, or as...
December 11, 2017
In their zeal to bring down President Trump, journalists have been making mistake after mistake.  On...
December 08, 2017
How different from us is God! How different in His thinking, His desires, and His...
December 08, 2017
Nancy Pelosi describes sexual abuser John Conyers as an "icon."  Environmentalists prophecy an apocalyptic last...
December 07, 2017
At what point does a religious expression cease to be Christian altogether?
December 07, 2017
  The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, v....
December 06, 2017
Before we retired a couple of years ago and moved to Oklahoma, we attended St....
December 06, 2017
The Russia issue will not go away for President Trump, and Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller...
December 05, 2017
Why doesn’t God do something about all the evil in the world? The Bible says...
December 05, 2017
One reason Vladimir Putin has had so much clout in Europe--especially in the Eastern European...
December 04, 2017
The season of Advent has begun! The word comes from the Latin, meaning “coming to”...
December 04, 2017
President Trump and the Republican Party scored a major legislative victory, as the Senate passed...
December 01, 2017
Last year, as we blogged about, in connection with renovation work on Jerusalem's Church of...
December 01, 2017
Yesterday, November 30, was the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift, the great...

November 2017

November 30, 2017
Per capita, the LCMS has one convert for every 44 adult members. That is a...
November 30, 2017
North Korea launched an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in a successful test that may put the...
November 29, 2017
In our last post on Mark Mattes's new book Martin Luther's Theology of Beauty, we...
November 29, 2017
As we blogged about, a Wisconsin judge ruled that the ministers' housing allowance tax break,...
November 28, 2017
The Republican tax reform plan retains deductions for charitable giving, including donations to churches and...
November 28, 2017
Add to the panoply of sexual preferences, orientations, and identities a new term, one that...
November 27, 2017
The portrayal of St. Joseph as an old man is not from the Bible but...
November 27, 2017
A man identified as the "youth pastor" of Grace Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Chester, Virginia, shot...
November 24, 2017
Leonardo da Vinci is not the only Renaissance artist to have a new work added...
November 24, 2017
Now that the sexual harassment and abuse of women is coming out of the closet, we...
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