An international study of human flourishing has been released, and it is full of surprises.
An international study of human flourishing has been released, and it is full of surprises.
Is culture changed primarily from below, by masses of people transforming their thinking and behavior, or from above, as a small number of elites exert their influence over everyone else? Both secularists and Christians have been debating which tactic is the best strategy.
Tomorrow, 135 cardinals will be locked up in the Sistine Chapel until they have elected a new pope. How that works, in history and today. Why Lutherans believe the papacy is anti-Christ.
Canada's election. Only 11% of transgender "women," or fewer, get the operation. And the truth about chemical abortion.
Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" supports Trump's tariffs and his goal of bringing manufacturing back, but he can't see how the U.S. labor market can supply all the workers we would need.
President Trump has said he wants to help make America more religious than it has ever been. Is there anything he or government in general can do to make the country religious again? Even if not, strictly speaking, are there changes that the government could make that would help churches and religious families?
I stumbled across an article on Eastern Orthodoxy that relates the sacraments to what we Lutherans would recognize as vocation. And key to this is a certain understanding of asceticism that resonates with the way Luther displaced the monastic disciplines into secular vocations.
Christians have been discussing the evident decline in affiliations with Christianity. Well, other religions are also declining. I came upon a Buddhist site that frets about how many Buddhists and potential Buddhists are flocking instead to Stoicism.
The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci said that "politics is downstream of culture," so that the Left can attain power by infiltrating universities, schools, the arts, the media, and other cultural institutions, as they have done. Now the Right is pursuing Gramsci's tactics.
Generating "bodyoids": Humans with no minds. Wisconsin trick increases school funding for 402 years. And Sweden's murder ads.
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