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June 2017

June 30, 2017

The Muslim civil war

Syria is the focal point of a global war between Shi'ite Muslims (led by Iran,...

June 30, 2017

A fun summertime book

Dragon's Teeth is based on the real life adventures and misadventures of two rival paleontologists, Othniel...

June 29, 2017

The history of Vacation Bible School

This week is Vacation Bible School at our church, as well as at others I'm...

June 29, 2017

Leftist fundamentalism

David Gushee is a religion journalist, on the liberal side of things, who has long...

June 29, 2017

Thunder’s Russell Westbrook wins MVP

Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder won this year's NBA Most Valuable Player award. The...

June 28, 2017

Marriage Is a Civil Matter, Not a Church Power

Lutherans particularly cannot "leave the government out of marriage." Their confessions and theology don't let...

June 28, 2017

CNN producer caught admitting its Trump coverage is bogus

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas has been embarrassing the left with his surreptitious videos. Now...

June 28, 2017

Murder by text

Seventeen-year-old Michelle Carter had a boyfriend, Conrad Roy, who was 18. Conrad was plagued by...

June 27, 2017

Lutheran church wins Supreme Court case

Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS) of Columbia, Missouri, won its case at the Supreme Court. The...

June 27, 2017

Supreme Court lifts stay on travel ban & will hear the Wedding Cake case

The Supreme Court re-instated President Trump's travel ban, in part, and will hear the case...

June 27, 2017

Paying to upgrade your accommodations in prison

Convicted felons in California can often upgrade their prison cells--for a price. For $100 a...

June 26, 2017

Most Christians have non-Christian worldviews

A new study from Barna has found that most "practicing Christians" in America--defined as those...

June 26, 2017

Dissolving Illinois

Due to its long history of corruption, political paralysis, and bad management, the state of...

June 26, 2017

Court throws out most charges against makers of Planned Parenthood videos

Pro-abortion fanatics have been trying to get David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt put in prison for...

June 23, 2017

Von Uhde’s “Let the Little Children Come to Me”

More from Fritz von Uhde, the 19th century Lutheran artist we've been discussing. This one,...

June 23, 2017

What percentage of gays have gotten married?

Gallup now has some data about same-sex marriage. According to Gallup's survey, 10.2% of LGBT...

June 23, 2017

The Senate’s health care bill

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care bill, which, if it passes, must be reconciled...

June 22, 2017

Von Uhde’s “Christ with the Peasants”

More from the Lutheran artist Fritz von Uhde, another variation on the theme of...

June 22, 2017

The Thucydides trap

The White House is full of aficionados of Thucydides, the Greek historian and chronicler of...

June 22, 2017

The history of pews

Lutheran writer and humorous church historian Luke T. Harrington writes about the history of church...

June 21, 2017

A painting of “Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest. . .”

In researching yesterday's post on Saying Grace, I came across this painting. I said to...

June 21, 2017

Is Amazon a monopoly that needs to be broken up?

Imagine a store whose clientele is not one city but the entire country, if not the...

June 21, 2017

Election billed as referendum on Trump goes for the Republican

When Georgia congressman Tom Price was named Secretary of Health and Human Services, that opened...

June 20, 2017

Saying grace

About half of Americans say grace before meals, according to a new study. Even 11%...

June 20, 2017

Special rights for eccentricity

More from iconoclast Camille Paglia. In this interview, she discusses transgenderism--its conflict with feminism, how...

June 20, 2017

Russia threatens to shoot down U.S. planes over Syria

In the course of supporting a rebel faction battling not only President Assad but ISIS,...

June 19, 2017

Infant morality

Christians who don't believe in baptizing infants generally hold to the notion of "the age...

June 19, 2017

Trump’s jeopardy

You never want to be the subject of a federal investigation. Even if they can't...

June 19, 2017

Amazon will buy Whole Foods

Amazon.com has announced that it is buying the Whole Foods grocery chain for $13.7 billion....

June 16, 2017

“Hell is other people” vs. Heaven is other people

In his play No Exit, existentialist thinker Jean Paul Sartre said and portrayed that "Hell...