2018-12-20T09:09:38-05:00

We got word a few days ago that the Oklahoma City newspaper will no longer deliver to our town, an hour and a half away.  So my longtime habit of reading the newspaper during my morning coffee will come to an abrupt end.  I realize

2018-12-16T21:13:53-05:00

If intersectionality has become a religion,  it may be on the verge of schism. The principle of intersectionality is that all of the oppressed–due to sex, race, sexual orientation, gender preference, disability, etc.–should support each other.  Also that an oppressed individual can have multiple identities, some

2018-12-16T17:44:56-05:00

The alliance between the LGBT folks and feminists is on the verge of destroying an American institution:  the Boy Scouts.  The organization, founded in 1910, is considering filing for bankruptcy. The organization was pressured into allowing for gay scoutmasters.  Now it is facing so many

2018-12-16T16:38:59-05:00

Continuing our series that began with Advent, St. Nicholas, & the Deity of Christ, reflections on the Nicene Creed, that most Christmasy of creeds, one of whose authors was reportedly St. Nicholas (a.k.a., Santa Claus). . . . The Nicene Creed stresses that Jesus Christ

2018-12-14T09:11:45-05:00

The Bible has always worked well with new information technology, from the printing press–which took off with Gutenberg’s Bible, Luther’s German translation, and the host of vernacular translations he inspired–to cell phones and the internet. YouVersion, one of the first apps for the iPhone, was

2018-12-12T21:23:47-05:00

After what pundits described as his worst week ever, President Trump’s popularity has gone up.  According to the Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll for December 11, the percentage of voters who approve of President Trump’s job performance is 49%.  The percentage that disapproves of his

2018-12-10T08:38:33-05:00

We often look for parallels between the state of our civilization and the fall of the Roman Empire.  More important than that, I have argued, are lessons from the fall of the Roman Republic, when a centuries-old constitutional order of law and liberty was thrown

2018-12-09T17:49:51-05:00

The “Abstinence Movement or the “evangelical purity culture,” call it what you will, is getting a lot of criticism lately.  Not that its goal of saving sex for marriage isn’t commendable.  But that so many single evangelicals–as many as 80%–including many who have taken that

2018-12-09T16:35:16-05:00

    Pictured above is my favorite meme of the season (HT:  Mary Moerbe).  The point is that the “real St. Nicholas” was said to be at the Council of Nicaea, where a major theme of the debate was whether Christ was “homoousios”–meaning “one substance”–with

2018-12-07T11:58:42-05:00

When Americans have a “tax revolt,” they mostly complain and express their opinion by voting.  In France, tax protesters are rioting, burning cars, smashing shops, and vandalizing the Arc de Triomphe.  But what is happening in France with the “Yellow Vest” uprising is symptomatic of

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