The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has just issued a major study of the doctrine and practice of confession and absolution. The report by the Commission on Theology and Church Relations establishes the Biblical and theological basis for confessing your sins to a pastor and receiving
Historian Andrew J. Bacevich warns us against slipping into “the paranoid style in American politics.” He draws on a book with that title published in 1964. The author, Richard Hofstadter, alerts readers to the dangers of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy” and worrying about falling
I’ve been posting about the relevance of George Orwell’s novel 1984 to today and how the pro-abortion movement uses the exact kind of language that he warns against in his essay “Politics and the English Language.” I came across yet another example of an Orwellian exaggeration
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has become a by-word among conservatives for her extreme liberalism. And yet, she is not extremely liberal enough for the California Democratic party, which is refusing to endorse her for re-election, choosing instead to throw its weight behind the
Poland may be the world’s most Catholic country. But at the time of the Reformation, it may have been the most receptive region to Lutheran preaching outside of Germany. Oxford scholar Natalia Nowakowska has written a book on this subject entitled King Sigismund of Poland and
The FBI has arrested a 29-year-old Russian woman named Maria Butina, accusing her of being an unregistered agent of the Russian government who targeted American conservatives, including Christian activists. Butina presented herself as working to establish the right to bear arms in Russia, thus giving
We blogged about Dan Hitchens’ article on politicians who parade their Catholic identity while also repudiating Catholic beliefs. In that piece, the nephew of the late “new atheist” Christopher Hitchens quotes two figures from the past whose predictions are remarkably prescient. From Dan Hitchens, The
Abortion cannot really be defended by appeals to morality or logic. So pro-abortion arguments are mostly based on emotion, unsupported “rights” talk, euphemism, and statements that just don’t make any sense. For example, a friend reported hearing several versions of this: “Any administration that takes children
Christianity is widely mocked and belittled by our cultural elite, which seem to enjoy citing statistics that purport to show that Christianity is in decline in America. But actually only white Christianity is showing declines in affiliation. Fewer young white people may be going to
According to the scientific method, experimental results need to be replicable. That is, for a study to be scientifically valid, different researchers performing the same experiment should get the same results. But it turns out, a surprisingly large amount of published scientific research can’t be
Select your answer to see how you score.
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In