Human beings seem to have a need for rituals at some level. Religions are traditionally the source of those rituals. So what do you do if you don’t have a religion? A new online venture is rushing into that void, offering to create rituals for
Human beings seem to have a need for rituals at some level. Religions are traditionally the source of those rituals. So what do you do if you don’t have a religion? A new online venture is rushing into that void, offering to create rituals for
Carl Trueman, in the course of his post If Only Francis Were Luther that we blogged about yesterday made an intriguing point about how there are many different ways of classifying Christians: There are many ways of dividing up the various traditions that claim the name
The fertility rate in the United States has taken a nose-dive, dropping to 1.76 births per woman, below the replacement rate. The decline is across the board: among single women and married women; younger women and older women; and the rate for racial minorities has
A number of observers are comparing Pope Francis to Martin Luther. Both are reformers of the Church! Catholic conservatives who resent how the Pope is seemingly trying to change the church’s teachings on marriage, homosexuality, and various traditional practices are making this comparison and treating
Love in the Ruins (1972) is a dark, comic, disturbing, and yet profoundly Christian novel by the late Catholic author Walker Percy. “It’s all there in that one book,” said William F. Buckley, “what’s happening to us and why.” Baylor theology professor Ralph C. Wood discusses
Memorial Day should include memories. The holiday was established specifically to remember those who died defending their country. In some parts of the country, that observance has broadened to include also remembering other family members and friends who have died. The custom is to visit the
My son-in-law Adam Hensley, Old Testament Lecturer at Australian Lutheran College, has just published his book Covenant Relationships and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter. I am posting about the book not only to encourage you and any associated libraries to buy it, expensive though it be.
Ireland once saved civilization, keeping Christianity and the classical tradition alive, during the barbarian invasions after the fall of Rome, eventually converting those barbarians. Not this time. Ireland joined the rest of the uncivilized world by voting to legalize the barbaric practice of abortion. The
A number of conservative thinkers, in trying to address the political and cultural problems of our time, are blaming liberal democracy itself. They are maintaining that the combination of individualism, personal freedom, and free market capitalism, as cultivated by liberal democracy, undermine community, religion, and
Evangelicals who support Donald Trump are receiving harsh criticism, both from other Christians and from secularists. How can you support Trump? goes the typical attack. With his porn star affairs, egotism, and vindictiveness, he’s as far from being a Christian as you can get.
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