"As the decline in religious attendance has slowed, the past few years have also seen a clear rise in the status of religion," says Reason Magazine. "It's becoming more and more socially acceptable to be religious in elite intellectual spaces." This is both problematic and instructive.
Fake research is being published in scientific, medical, and academic journals that was written by "paper mills." This has become such a problem that, according to one scientist, “the entire structure of science could collapse if this is left unaddressed.”
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has agreed to drop the "filioque" from the Nicene Creed in deference to Eastern Orthodoxy. Why not also agree with the Orthodox on women's ordination, homosexuality, abortion, and the rejection of liberal theology? [TO BE CLEAR: The ELCA did not drop the ARTICLE about the Son ("And in one Lord Jesus Christ. . . ."), but the phrase in the article on the Holy Spirit "who proceeds from the Father AND THE SON."]
A baby who is 30 years old. No confidentiality with AI. And Christian revival in the UK.
The Scopes Trial, which marks its 100th anniversary on August 10, was not just about evolution vs. creation. It was also about eugenics vs. man created in the image of God.
Can we "throw off the burden of social and political membership, and start again from a condition of absolute freedom"? Or are we "subject to institutions and traditions that contain within them a precious inheritance of wisdom"?
[A free post, to share.] Lexham Press has been publishing lots of Lutheran authors, to the point of asking John Kleinig to write about the Lord's Supper. He takes a unique approach that will make readers of all backgrounds hunger and thirst for Christ's Body and Blood. Read more
With the rise of science over religion, "disenchantment" has become a hallmark of modernity. People have become disenchanted with the family, with sexual morality, with the church, with life itself. But we are now getting disenchanted not with religion but with what we tried to replace it with. That is a necessary stage of re-enchanting the world.
A historian argues that the essence of communism is not economics but "a totalitarian imperative to destroy utterly the old world, reject all traditional values, and completely remake both individuals and society."
Tariffs and our still-good economy. Planned Parenthood received more tax money than PBS and NPR. And federal employees may now express their faith on the job.
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