"'Confessional' churches receive more converts than 'Missional' churches, and 'Traditional' churches receive more converts than 'Contemporary' services." So says a study of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
"'Confessional' churches receive more converts than 'Missional' churches, and 'Traditional' churches receive more converts than 'Contemporary' services." So says a study of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
A new book shows how the Catholic priest Fulton J. Sheen and the Lutheran pastor Walter A. Maier achieved such enormous popularity in the new medium of radio that they made their "foreign religions" acceptable to Americans and helped reverse the decline in American religion known as the "Religious Depression" that in many ways was worse than what we are experiencing today. (A free post) Read more
Originally, the progressive Methodists were supposed to leave. Why the pro-Hamas protesters are targeting liberals. The silent majority of college students.
In questioning the reasons for their protests given by the anti-Israel demonstrators, Carl Trueman sees an underlying nihilism. This "hatred of what is" accounts for a great deal of contemporary thought and culture.
Discuss: “People are now planting bombs in the tramways of Algiers. My mother might be on one of those tramways. If that is justice, then I prefer my mother.” Albert Camus
It may seem that our culture has gone insane, what with transgenderism, political correctness, defunding the police, opposition to having children, and other pathologies. Daniel Henninger, though, believes that the madness has reached its crest and is starting to ebb.
Both Republicans and Democrats have been in thrall to their more extreme members, letting the far right and the far left set their agendas. But now the center in both parties is pushing back, to the point of finding agreements with each other. And, surprisingly, leading the moderating charge on the right is Donald Trump!
The United Methodists were willing to break their church for the cause of homosexuality. To clear the way, they got rid of their American conservatives and denied their African members the right to vote. Thus liberated, they are going even further, to the point of accepting all extramarital sex.
France threatens to send troops to Ukraine. Young adults who can't write their name. And in the future, everyone will wear glasses.
We shouldn't be surprised at the campus protests in support of Hamas terrorists over Israel, nor at the university administrators who are letting them run out of control. The students are simply acting out what the universities have taught them. So says an article in "The Atlantic" on the problems of the "post-liberal university."
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