The recent election may have marked the end of woke ideology as a political force. But ideas remain, even after the general public repudiates them, More consequential may be a book that dismantles the woke mindset in its own terms and using its own methods.
President-elect Donald Trump's nominations for cabinet posts, which must be deliberated by the Senate, raise issues about vocation. We can consider their beliefs and qualifications. But do they have a vocation for the job?
Americans join the immigrant wave flooding Europe. Election officials boast about disobeying election law. And archaeological evidence that the earliest Christians believed in the deity of Christ.
An article on the difference between evangelical and mainline Protestants made me wonder where the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod fits in. The LCMS is hard to classify in terms of that and other binaries, including Protestant and Catholic, Word and Sacrament. But that difficulty tells us something important about Lutheranism.
To conclude this politics-free week (except for Monday), let's discuss the classic "safe topic": Sports.
Oxford biophysicist Denis Noble is not a creationist nor an advocate of Intelligent Design. But he is among the researchers who has found evidence that evolution is not driven by randomness but by purpose, intentionality, and even cognition.
The quest to find the Holy Grail, the cup that Christ used in His last supper, has been the subject of stories from the time of the Middle Ages to contemporary Hollywood, from the knights of King Arthur's Round Table to Indiana Jones. Strangely, though, there has been little attention to the texts that describe finding the Grail, which point to what the legend actually means.
A new book shows how Christianity invented what seems to be its nemesis today: the concept of the secular. That is, a realm that is distinct from the explicitly religious.
What did NOT influence the election; the most pro-Trump racial group; and Catholics elected Trump.
Some Catholics are saying that the Reformation is over, so Protestants now should unite with Rome. This is because exactly 25 years ago last week, on October 31, 1999, Reformation Day, the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" was signed, an agreement between the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation, plus eventually other mainline liberal Protestants. Why this did NOT resolve the Reformation issues.
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