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December 2015

December 20, 2015
Subtitled The Qur'an, the Media, and that Veil Thing. The front cover alone lets you...
December 18, 2015
Allow me to be contrarian. Per my prior post, and all over the internet, Wheaton...
December 18, 2015
Here's the deal: You've likely heard about Larycia Hawkins, who declared in a Facebook post...
December 17, 2015
Posting's been light due to busy-ness at work and at home, but here's something to...
December 16, 2015
The "Baby Jesus people":  that's the name our kids had for the nativity set when...
December 15, 2015
Yeah, three wholly unrelated topics for this morning that came across my twitter feed and
December 14, 2015
When you grow up LCMS, you memorize scripture, such as this one: "You shall not...
December 12, 2015
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that...
December 11, 2015
Yes, it's that time of year when everyone is flogging their carefully-curated list of gift...
December 11, 2015
First, from Charles Krauthammer (in this case, in the Washington Post):  "Why take the Trump...
December 10, 2015
Because I'm just in that sort of mood. Yes?  No? There's got to be a...
December 10, 2015
I've got to be honest with you; I'm pretty disappointed with what I've been reading...
December 08, 2015
It's a frickin' mess. When I first read that Trump had called for prohibitions on...
December 07, 2015
So this is the time of year when media types, and pundits, and politicians, attempt to...
December 06, 2015
Here's something that's been shared by several facebook friends: Which is certainly a well-meant thought....
December 04, 2015
If you read twitter, you've likely seen the "prayer shaming" debate over the last couple...
December 03, 2015
I have a facebook friend who right now is keeping track of which prolife organizations,...
December 02, 2015
Up to now, I've refrained from commenting on the protests by black* students at American...
December 01, 2015
Yeah, another visit home. Usually, I try to keep the family stuff limited to cute...

November 2015

November 30, 2015
What if it turns out that Robert Dear was, in fact, motivated by the Planned...
November 29, 2015
Information is beginning to make its way around the internet about Robert Lewis Dear, who...
November 29, 2015
Yes, sure, in the United States, there are advent wreaths.  I bought one from a...
November 28, 2015
Spike Lee's new movie, Chi-Raq, models itself after Lysistrata and its "sex strike" plotline, except...
November 26, 2015
Open-thread time here. What's for dinner? How are the folks?  (Or the kids?) No advice...
November 24, 2015
I'm copy/pasting text below rather than just the image, but this is what I wrote...
November 24, 2015
That's the latest, per Ann Althouse, linking to a report in the New York Times...
November 23, 2015
We're being told repeatedly that our failure to take in Jews from Germany seeking to...
November 22, 2015
Here's the website for The Cradle Fund, an organization which provides direct aid to refugees...
November 21, 2015
This is a very meaty book, and I've been meaning to write about it for...
November 20, 2015
Wake, funeral, wake, funeral, band concert.  That's been my week. Well, of course, this doesn't...
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