The old Farmers and Merchants Bank building in Boley, Oklahoma, is being restored, thanks to a grant from the National Park Service. The building had been put on the National Registry of Historic Places not only because it was the first black-owned bank but also
My daughter Mary Moerbe, at her blog Meet, Write, and Salutary, alerted me to a remarkable and potentially invaluable web resource: A Collection of Prayers: Christian Prayers, Ancient and Modern. It’s a collection of some 1200 prayers, from every century and a wide range of
Contrary to the common impression, it turns out that the percentage of evangelicals in America is not declining after all. That’s the findings of the General Social Survey, considered the most reliable of ongoing polls. Yes, the number of “Nones” is also growing. There is
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of whether or not President Trump colluded with the Russians to get elected and obstructed justice to cover it up has hung over the Trump presidency for most of his two years in office. Now Mueller has turned in his
The New York Times has published a discussion of the anti-semitism of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophers (Kant, Voltaire, Hume, Hegel, Heidegger, etc.). This manifested itself in an attempt to formulate a Christianity apart from the Bible. On one level, the piece, by philosophy professor Laurie
British author Will Jones has written a perceptive article on the difference between conservatives and progressives, pointing out that both sides are working from radically incompatible and opposing worldviews. These are not just political ideologies. Rather, they account for personalities, psychologies, and how people live.
The college admissions scandal keeps growing. The mastermind behind the cheating and bribery scheme says that he did the same sort of thing for 750 families. It has also come out that it’s a common practice for wealthy families to buy extra time for their
Those who keep up with me on this blog know that I’ve been doing some things with Scandinavian Christians. In Finland a while back, I spoke at an apologetics conference about imagination and the arts, drawing on my recent book with Matt Ristuccia, Imagination Redeemed:
Sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church–as well as other churches–is a horrible scandal. That does not mean, however, that every clergyman accused of these crimes is guilty. And the climate of outrage about these revelations can lend itself to false accusations, hoaxes, and
Churches don’t talk much about Hell anymore. The notion of a realm of eternal punishment is thought to put people off. It seems unfair. It’s out of synch with the view of an all-benevolent God. And yet, research shows that though they don’t like to
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