There are all kinds of negative emotions. Not all of them are morally or spiritually bad, as such. Depression, for example, can come upon a person for good reasons or because of a medical condition. Depression is not the same thing as despair, which implies
The Golden State Killer raped more than 50 women and murdered 12 of them. This was in California back in the 1970s and 1980s. After all this time, last month the serial killer was identified and arrested. I hadn’t heard the full story of how
Nathan Rinne, who blogs with Jordan Cooper at Just and Sinner here at Patheos, discusses a post that I wrote a number of years ago entitled “Raising children so they will go to church as adults”. I drew on a 1994 study in Switzerland, published in
How far is the Left going in the United States? We now have American Maoists who are calling for “revolutionary violence.” An Antifa group is calling itself the “Red Guards” and has adopted the ideology and the rhetoric of Chairman Mao and his Great Proletarian
I have blogged about my former student John Ehrett, who wrote that perceptive review of our book Authentic Christianity. I am glad to see that he is now writing for Patheos at his blog Between Two Kingdoms: Lutheran Musings on Christianity, Culture, and Civil Society. This
May 5 is the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. Seldom have the ideas of one person wreaked such havoc. And yet, despite the fall of the Soviet Union, he remains idolized and influential. Marx’s theory of Communism caused revolutions, wars, and gulags, and was responsible
I came across a remarkable poem by the Dutch author Jacobus Revius (1586-1658). He was a contemporary of George Herbert and John Donne, whose “metaphysical” style he follows. He Bore Our Griefs by Jacobus Revius No, it was not the Jews who crucified, Nor
Most Americans are lonely, according to a new study. And, contrary to what we might expect, the older you are, the less lonely you feel. In fact, loneliness is greatest among young people. The study, sponsored by Cigna Insurance, surveyed 20,000 Americans, aged 18 and
I just got back from Concordia University Chicago (formerly known as Concordia River Forest). The new president, Dr. Daniel Gard, seems to be doing some good work with that institution. The bulletin from the chapel service (Morning Prayer from the Lutheran Service Book), had this
French President Emmanuel Macron and American President Donald Trump disagree on just about everything–economics, immigration, the Middle East, climate change, you name it. And yet in Macron’s recent state visit to the U.S., the two got along swimmingly. President Trump called his French counterpart “perfect”!
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