Christians talk a great deal about reaching the culture and influencing the culture. But Christians often take a simplistic view of culture, neglecting the social dynamics of how culture works. So I appreciate my fellow Patheos blogger Dean Abbott, at The Road Home for bringing
The Republican agenda has long been shaped by its nostalgia for Ronald Reagan. The Democratic agenda has long been shaped by its nostalgia for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal. Donald Trump has shaken up the Republicans with some new approaches. But the Democrats
The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, which passed with an overwhelming bi-partisan majority, was signed into law by President Trump and holds websites liable if they are used for sex trafficking. How did it get through, despite Silicon Valley’s strenuous lobbying effort against it? Because two
U.S. forces fired over 100 cruise missiles at Syria in retaliation against President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against rebels to his regime. The chemical attack killed some 40 people in the city of Douma, including a number of children. President Trump had threatened
Trevor Sutton, my co-author of Authentic Christianity, has written a fascinating article entitled Social Media and Sin. Using Luther’s definition of our sinful condition as being “curved in upon ourselves,” Trevor shows that the very technological design of social media exploits the fallen weaknesses and the
Matthew Cochran, a Concordia Theological Seminary lay graduate who blogs at 96th Thesis has a provocative article in The Federalist entitled If You Want Men In Your Church, Stop Treating Them With Contempt. Responding to a New York Times column by Ross Douthat, “God and Men
I hate promoting myself, but I have to share with you this review of my new book with Trevor Sutton, Authentic Christianity: How Lutheran Theology Speaks to the Postmodern World. It’s by a former student of mine at Patrick Henry College, John Ehrett. He’s utterly
Facebook is getting hit hard in the fallout over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a British political firm gleaned tons of personal information about 87 million Facebook users and used it for the Trump campaign. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is getting raked over the
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has sponsored two research projects on the retention of young people in the church, as they move from confirmation to adulthood. The findings were interesting–with some surprises and facts in need of interpretation–and I suspect they are applicable to other
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has run the numbers, finding, as expected, that the combination of a $1.5 trillion tax cuts and the $1.3 trillion spending bill will send the national debt soaring. How bad is it going to be? The CBO estimates that
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