Why is our society so dysfunctional? Why has our culture become so toxic? Perhaps because we have embraced abortion, the consequences of which have been reverberating throughout our nation. Perhaps because we are haunted by the ghosts of millions of aborted children.
The best, most important, and most helpful website for Lutherans, fans of the Reformation, and fellow-travellers is bookofconcord.org. And now that site has been redesigned, updated, and made even better!
In his inaugural address, Joe Biden quoted St. Augustine on how a people is "defined by the common objects of their love." But, in context, the reference was not to national unity through love but the problem of societies loving the wrong things. What do we really love today?
An ideology isn't triumphant when one side holds to it. An ideology is triumphant when both sides hold to it. Both Donald Trump and his fiercest "woke" critics share exactly the same worldview: postmodernism.
One of President Biden's biggest priorities, he says, is uniting the country. What are the prospects of that happening? And how might that be done?
Joe Biden will be inaugurated into the presidency today. This will bring joy to many Americans and sorrow to others. But the doctrine of vocation teaches Christians how we can distinguish between the office and the person who holds it. Scripture enjoins us to honor and pray for those in high office, even though we may disagree with what they do.
Roman Catholics call the mother of Jesus "the Blessed Virgin Mary," and rightly so. Scripture calls her "blessed." But this is not the blessedness of the prosperity gospel but of the Beatitudes. And it grows out of her faith. So says the Swedish bishop and novelist Bo Giertz.
Some say the victory of political liberalism and the discrediting of evangelicalism may be accompanied by the revival of liberal Christianity. That makes sense, since mainline churches are, apart from universities, the most "woke" places in America. But I have my doubts.
An agency of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod was cancelled by Facebook, collateral damage in big tech's "deplatforming" movement that is shutting down free speech on the internet.
In Federalist No. 10, James Madison anticipates and addresses issues and problems we are having to deal with today: polarization, conflicting ideologies, political involvement of religion, diversity. And his insights have application also to smaller questions, such as whether a president can pardon himself.
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