April 6 is the Day of Commemoration in the Lutheran calendar for artists Lucas Cranach (1472-1557) and Albrecht Dürer (b. 1471, who died on April 6, 1528). (Anglicans honor them, along with Matthias Grünewald, on August 5). Since Cranach is the patron of this blog, we need to
Knud Skov, a confessional Lutheran from Denmark, sent me an essay that he had written about the origins of current assumptions about oppression, sex, and gender. I thought that what he says about the Frankfurt School, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler would be of interest
Writer and radio host Dennis Prager has written a hilarious–but also dead serious–essay entitled How the Left Keeps Me Religious. Prager, who is Jewish, said that he isn’t a particularly “spiritual” person. But that the Godless left puts forward such absurd beliefs, is so morally blind,
The United States of America is not a democracy. And it was never supposed to be. Our constitutional order has built in protections against majority rule, lest the greater numbers run roughshod over individuals, minorities, and holders of unpopular ideas. Among those safeguards against democracy
The magazine Interest Time has a special issue on vocation. The lead article “Vocation: How God Provides for Us” by Demian Farnworth is an excellent introduction to the concept. The issue also includes an interview with me, in which, among other things, I tell how I
I heard Gram Parsons’ song “In My Hour of Darkness” on the radio the other day and it has been haunting me ever since. Parsons was the Sixties musician who discovered traditional country music, bringing the two genres together through his involvement with the Byrds and
The European Union has passed a new copyright law that has the potential to fundamentally change–if not eliminate–the internet as we have known it. Article 11 of the EU Copyright Directive targets the big news aggregators like Google News and The Drudge Report. It would
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
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