2016-07-05T20:26:00-04:00

Concordia Publishing House is offering free flash cards and memory cards to help in learning Luther’s Small Catechism.  You can download them here.  Thanks, CPH, for making available such a helpful resource! HT:  Mary Moerbe

2016-07-05T10:43:17-04:00

Thomas C. Oden is a prominent theologian who formerly was a major practitioner of liberal, modernist theology.  But then, after reading the Church Fathers, he did an about face, turning to orthodox, historical Christianity.  He tells his story in A Change of Heart:  A Personal

2016-07-04T18:02:24-04:00

At Donald Trump’s conclave with evangelical leaders, he notably dodged the religious liberty questions.  That’s understandable, since Trump supports the LGTB cause , the source of the current efforts to punish Christians and Christian organizations for holding to their religious beliefs about sexual morality. But surely Hillary

2016-07-04T17:39:25-04:00

A pall was cast over the state of Oklahoma as everyone was celebrating the 4th of July.  I myself was at our small town’s Independence Day Parade when we got the news.  Kevin Durant was leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder. Not just leaving but going

2016-07-03T15:05:10-04:00

On this Independence Day, we celebrate our freedoms as Americans. It’s a good exercise to read The Declaration of Independence, and it’s also a good exercise to read the Bill of Rights, the first Ten Amendments to our Constitution, spelling out what those freedoms are. Read

2016-07-03T15:56:12-04:00

One of my most formative memories is when I was ten years old and the Holocaust administrator Adolf Eichmann was on trial.  The four TV channels covered his trial, as he sat smirking behind a screen of bullet proof glass, and showed a number of

2016-07-03T16:02:07-04:00

The FBI questioned Hillary Clinton for over three hours on Saturday about her private e-mail system and whether or not it put government secrets in jeopardy.  That means the FBI’s investigation is drawing to a close, and we should know soon whether or not the former

2016-06-30T20:26:11-04:00

A Christian-owned pharmacy chain refuses to stock “emergency contraception” drugs on the grounds that they cause abortion.  The state of Washington wants to compel the chain to carry the drugs, even though that would violate the owner’s religious beliefs.  The case would seem to be

2016-06-30T20:29:09-04:00

Donald Trump dodged the Vietnam War, but he has said that he feels “like a great and very brave soldier” who endured “my personal Vietnam”:  risking sexually transmitted diseases! (more…)

2016-06-30T20:30:04-04:00

The Pentagon announced that it will now allow transgendered individuals to serve in the military under their preferred sex.  The military health care system will also provide hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery to current servicemen and women who wish to transition to another sex. (more…)

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