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Joe Biden will be inaugurated into the presidency today. This will bring joy to many...

Christmas is mysterious.  The notion that the transcendent God of the universe has been born...

Oklahoma, where I grew up and where I live, is one of the most conservative...

Once again, the polls were spectacularly wrong in predicting the recent election. Perhaps the problem...

In our efforts to Christianize "Labor Day" by turning it into a feast day celebrating...

How is it that "coveting" rates inclusion in the Ten Commandments? After all, it doesn't...

The Lutheran Witness, the magazine of the LCMS, has a new internet presence, including a...

Our state, Oklahoma, is "opening up" from the coronavirus shutdown so we were able to...

In Edward Young's "Night Thoughts," an unusual poetic meditation on death, the poet turns around...

I would like to invite you to our church; that is, to our online service. ...

The coronavirus outbreak has been called "the first postmodern pandemic", though the author didn't say...

Police in Finland are investigating the leader of an entire church denomination for publishing a...

The epigraph of my new book, "Post-Christian:  A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture," is...

My new book from Crossway has been released.  It's entitled "Post-Christian:  A Guide to Contemporary...

Onsi Kamel grew up as an evangelical but became highly attracted to Roman Catholicism.  In...

When we were in Australia earlier this summer, I did a couple of interviews for...

Crossway is holding a sale on the e-book of Family Vocation:  God's Calling in Marriage,...

When you went on family vacations, did you visit historic landmarks?  Did your parents take...

When we were raising our children, there were some words that we did not allow...

Mad Magazine is ceasing publication after a 67-year run.  The satirical magazine--which was a formative...

I just heard from Crossway that they are running a special promotion of my book...

We just got back from the Outback.  Of the many strange and quirky marvels we...

Dawn Bornemann posted on her Face Book page a link to something on a church...

An Aboriginal boy between the age of 10 and 16 will go on "walkabout," a...

Did you know that our military has the capability of shooting down artillery shells?  Even...

The magazine Interest Time has a special issue on vocation.  The lead article "Vocation: How God...

  Those who keep up with me on this blog know that I've been doing...

Sam Anderson is a writer for the New York Times Magazine who came to Oklahoma...

I am saddened at the death of Bre Payton, one of my students at Patrick...

As I keep harping on in this blog, the white working class in rural small...