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In the 17th century, a strict order of monks gave up all solid foods for...

The Republicans have finally introduced a bill to "repeal and replace" Obamacare.  Let us call...

I recently blogged about the new Bible translation, the Christian Standard Bible.  I didn't realize...

President Trump tweeted an accusation that President Obama wire-tapped his Trump Tower headquarters before the...

During his confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was asked, under oath, if he had...

A new Bible translation has been published:  The Christian Standard Bible. This is a thorough...

Thousands of protesters joined the Standing Rock Sioux to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.  They...

A young former-buttoned-down conservative at CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) said that he has...

I stumbled upon a tab at the Patheos site that is called "Religion Library."  It...

Joy Pullman at the Federalist writes about a doctoral dissertation that maintains that science is inherently...

President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress is being hailed as a "home...

"Welcome, dear feast of Lent," wrote George Herbert in a poem on the subject.  Of...

Lent has traditionally been a time to practice "mortification of the flesh."  That's another concept...

LGBT-friendly churches are planning to mix glitter with the ashes that are imposed on Ash...

This is the place to discuss President Trump's address to the joint session of Congress....

Tomorrow is the beginning of Lent, a time for reflection and devotion. Christ Lutheran Church...

President Trump will submit a budget that he says will put "America first."  Defense spending...

Hollywood was feeling good.  The Academy Awards show featured continual Trump-bashing and the "Oscars So...

Catholics, Protestants often say, believe in salvation by good works.  This engenders the reply from...

The Christian owner of a meatpacking business had some pamphlets lying around in the breakroom...

Who do you think said this? "Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even...

Our media is highly politicized across the spectrum, obsessed--pro- or con- or somewhere in between--with...

In another in our series of my-former-students-who-are-making-me-proud-by-their-writing, Gracy Olmstead explains why today's conservatives need to...

American agriculture has virtually eliminated world hunger.  And American farmers preside over an industry that has...

How did the gay, profane, iconoclastic Milo Yiannopoulos get to be a poster child for...

President Trump keeps doing what he was elected to do, thereby sending his opponents into...

The recent space probe to Pluto revealed it to be no mere frozen rock but...

The Supreme Court has taken up a case that will decide whether or not foreigners--even...

Conservatives used to have moral qualms about homosexuality, but Milo Yiannopoulos had become a right wing...

A new category of victims has emerged in feminist and other progressive circles:  "regretful parents."...