I stumbled across an article on Eastern Orthodoxy that relates the sacraments to what we Lutherans would recognize as vocation. And key to this is a certain understanding of asceticism that resonates with the way Luther displaced the monastic disciplines into secular vocations.
Christians have been discussing the evident decline in affiliations with Christianity. Well, other religions are also declining. I came upon a Buddhist site that frets about how many Buddhists and potential Buddhists are flocking instead to Stoicism.
The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci said that "politics is downstream of culture," so that the Left can attain power by infiltrating universities, schools, the arts, the media, and other cultural institutions, as they have done. Now the Right is pursuing Gramsci's tactics.
Generating "bodyoids": Humans with no minds. Wisconsin trick increases school funding for 402 years. And Sweden's murder ads.
Researchers note that while church affiliation has plummeted, religious beliefs have not. They conclude that we are not becoming secularist. Rather, religion is just changing. And that this is a historical cycle. When religion becomes ossified, a reform movement offers a more personal faith. What this view gets right and what it misses.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, among his many initiatives to Make America Healthy Again, wants to ban advertisements for prescription medicine. Do you agree?
Great Britain has had the reputation as one of the most secularized nations in the world. But that may be changing. Sebastian Morello sees that and points out that English history shows many cycles of irreligion followed by religious revival. The same is true in American history.
Some Australian states are regulating what you are allowed to pray for and what pastors can say in their counseling sessions and sermons.
While working on my new book on "Technology and Vocation," I had an uncanny, ironic, meta, and scary "conversation" with ChatGPT that I had to share with you.
The Pope has died. Illinois Bill Would Restrict Homeschooling. And Poland's Per Capita Economy to Surpass Japan's.
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