In late April, TWO major broods of cicadas--also known as locusts--will emerge from their multi-year development under ground at the same time. This is the first time this has happened since 1803. The result will be a trillion of the insects over a 16 state area in the South and Midwest in quite the spectacle. The Biblical locusts were grasshoppers, but this "plague" could be a different kind of sign.
The Supreme Court has just heard a case that might undo what has been called a "constitutional revolution." A previous ruling called the "Chevron deference" has given the federal bureaucracy the ability to implement regulations with the force of law apart from the legislature and without judicial review. A case brought by fishermen may overturn that.
October 8 Jews, Christian Civilizationism, and Finnish persecutors appeal to the Supreme Court.
A French thinker, Emmanuel Todd, is blaming the decline of the West on the "vaporisation" of Protestantism.
Why do we care so much about sports?
As the election year gets under way, all agree that American politics is highly polarized. And yet most Americans do not agree fully with either pole. Nevertheless, they will have to vote for one pole or the other.
Carl Trueman is a Reformed theologian who has become one of our best cultural critics. He says that the contemporary church universal would do well to draw on the Lutheran doctrines of the Two Kingdoms, to avoid the temptations of politics, and the Theology of the Cross, to understand that God works through weakness and suffering.
Behind many of our most contentious issues today is an extreme, pathological fear of suffering. To the point that a bioethicist is arguing that both human beings and animals should go extinct in order to eliminate suffering.
The presidential race begins, the disunited Methodists, and the pro-abortion strategy.
Social pressure often makes people pretend to believe and desire things, when actually they don't. This phenomenon is called "preference falsification." A minor event can make the pretending stop, leading to sudden changes. This may be happening with woke ideology.
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