In 1993, I published "Modern Fascism," about the ideas that defined fascism and their revival today. I have been asked to revisit that book to see how it stands up nearly three decades later. Much of what I predicted and warned against has come true. Though sometimes I was wrong in underestimating the fascist revival.
American confessional Lutherans may feel beleaguered at times, but they should realize that they have Biblically-faithful counterparts all around the world. The International Lutheran Council consists of 60 church bodies with over 7 million members.
Last Tuesday's election was a "red wave" that swept over much of the nation, with conservative victories even in states and cities that were bastions of progressivism. Why this happened and what it means.
Parents are insisting that public schools should not be centers for indoctrinating their children. But indoctrination may be a feature, not a bug, of public education.
Young adults are abandoning the church in droves. Evidently, the "youth group" strategy many churches have relied upon--with its emphasis on pizza, games, and fun activities--has not been effective. There are, however, alternatives.
Lutherans and Anglicans have similarities, but also major differences. But Lutherans can learn from the attempts by some Anglicans to bring that tradition back from extreme liberalism to Biblical orthodoxy.
A growing number of young women--some of them in their teens--are not only choosing not to have children, they are making sure that they will never have children by getting sterilized. Their reasons vary, from wanting the human race to die out to thinking that babies are "gross." But they fail to factor in that both babies and they themselves will grow older.
Our models and our expectations for "successful" churches tend to focus on growing in numbers. But is that realistic in an increasingly secularist society? An expert on mission says that in this context, "the church will always be small." Yet Christian minorities gathered into small congregations can still function effectively as the Body of Christ.
For Reformation Day, the four ways the Reformation differed from Catholicism and the myth of the age of "dead orthodoxy."
The Constitution forbids the government from prohibiting the "free exercise of religion." That refers to acting on one's religious beliefs. As opposed to "the freedom to worship," the ability to go to a church or its equivalent, which is how progressives construe religious liberty.
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