In yesterday’s post on Luther and Trump, we drew on the work of economist Lyman Stone, who describes himself as “a theologically confessional Lutheran and politically conservative Republican,” and elsewhere as a member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. In discussing the various claims that
Ours is seemingly a polarized society, but the extreme “left” and the extreme “right” have more in common than they realize. In fact, the postmodernist academy with its identity politics, moral relativism, and power reductionism and the Ayn Rand objectivists with their “virtue of selfishness”
Did Martin Luther give us Donald Trump? Are Lutherans responsible for getting Trump elected? This is what some writers are saying. Whether you think Luther’s alleged complicity with Trump would be a good thing or a bad thing, most of these writers see it as
Many evangelicals are giving up the term “evangelical.” They are embarrassed by their movement’s seemingly uncritical embrace of Donald Trump. They are frustrated that non-Christians associate the label with culture-war issues, such as opposition to abortion and homosexuality, instead of with their religious beliefs.
“I believe in God.” That sounds like a straightforward statement. But what God do you believe in? And what do you believe about God? Conversely, if you don’t believe in God, what God do you not believe in? A new Pew Study delves into some of
China and India have been practicing gendercide–that is, the systematic abortion of female babies–for decades. Now those countries are paying the price. Men in those countries, the most populous nations on earth, outnumber women by 70 million. That means 70 million men have no prospects
An increasing number of Americans say that they are “spiritual but not religious.” That is, they don’t participate in any organized religion, but they do have their own individual, personal “spirituality.” Is that private, interior spiritual sensibility the same, for all practical purposes, as a
Unemployment would be completely ended with a program that would give every America who wanted a job employment with the federal government, which would pay $15 per hour, plus health care benefits. That is the proposal of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). Two other potential Democratic
Google has banned remarketing ads from Concordia Publishing House, the publishing company of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, because they mention “Jesus” and the “Bible.” Carl Vehse brought this up in a comment, I saw CPH president Bruce Kintz’s tweet, and I read the Federalist
What’s happening to American freedom and democracy? Is it in danger? Is it thriving? Or is it going to extremes? National Review‘s Jonah Goldberg, a prominent conservative Never-Trumper, has written a book entitled Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and
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