2015-08-12T08:18:10-04:00

Only a small percentage of the Millennial generation vote, according to a new study.  That’s not to say they aren’t interested in politics.  But they tend to express that interest by doing things like putting rainbows on their FaceBook pages and making other online gestures

2015-08-10T11:10:35-04:00

My daughter, Dcs. Mary Moerbe, has published another children’s book:  Whisper, Whisper:  Learning about Church.  It teaches children, aged 4 and younger, what is going on in the worship service (with special reference to the liturgy) and helps them participate in it. The book uses

2015-08-10T19:40:09-04:00

If you grew up in the 1960’s or 1970’s, if you love the music of that time, and if you listen to the oldies stations to this very day, you have got to see the documentary  The Wrecking Crew.  (Shot back in 2008 but just

2015-08-10T19:41:08-04:00

The last version of the Advanced Placement History exam, which allows high schoolers to test out of college courses–as well as the material required to prepare for it–bought into the leftist revisionist history movement, portraying American history mainly in terms of how oppressive it was. 

2015-08-09T16:34:35-04:00

The conventional wisdom is that Luther taught total submission to government authorities.  But you’ve got to read what he actually wrote about those government authorities.  Dr. Matthew Phillips usefully quotes from Luther’s most important treatise on earthly government and the Two Kingdoms, in which he

2015-08-09T16:31:57-04:00

Our culture has arrived at a transgender moment. “The end of gender is near,” says Robin Givens, the Washington Post fashion critic. Menswear designers are on a mission to eradicate it. Some are going full bore, wielding lace shirts and floppy, grandma blouses like cultural

2015-08-09T16:43:28-04:00

How about this as a narrative for getting Donald Trump out of the Republican presidential race?  Trump as a Democratic mole?  That could be an interpretation of the report that the iconoclastic mogul had a phone call with Bill Clinton just before entering the race.  According

2015-08-06T19:36:25-04:00

In an interview with Nadia Bolz-Weber, the ELCA “pastrix,” when asked about those who consider themselves “spiritual, but not religious,” turns the terms around, saying that Christianity–what with the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the Sacraments–is not so much spiritual as physical. (more…)

2015-08-06T19:34:24-04:00

The government, through the Securities & Exchange Commission, has passed a regulation requiring that all publicly-trade companies have to publish the ratio between how much the chief executives get paid as compared to their average worker.  On the other end of the pay scale, a

2015-08-06T23:07:45-04:00

So, in the aftermath of the first Republican presidential primary debates, what do you think?  Questions for discussion and contemplation after the jump. (more…)

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