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June 2017

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...

June 16, 2017

There may be adverse aspects to each of our rights

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) was one of the Congressman at the baseball field attacked by...

June 16, 2017

Liberalism’s obsession with language

Camille Paglia is a feminist, a leftist, a lesbian, an atheist. . . .And yet...

June 15, 2017

Statistics on the churched, unchurched, & dechurched

Recent statistics from a Barna study on cities with the largest and smallest church attendance...

June 15, 2017

Gunman attacks Republican congressmen

Seventeen Republican congressmen, two senators, and various staffers, family members, and friends (26 in all)...

June 15, 2017

Kevin Durant got his championship

Last year the Oklahoma City came this close to beating the Golden State Warriors in the...

June 14, 2017

Hell

One of the best comments about Bernie Sanders' opposition to a nominee's confirmation because he...

June 14, 2017

Court upholds right of church to fire gay employee

The music director of Holy Family Catholic Church in Chicago announced his engagement to another...

June 14, 2017

The new mideast crisis over Qatar

The Middle East is embroiled in a new crisis, and it has nothing to do...

June 13, 2017

Shakespeare is pro-Caesar

New York’s summertime staple “Shakespeare in the Park” is performing the bard’s great tragedy...

June 13, 2017

Southern Baptist Numbers Are Shrinking

Why are conservative churches growing over all, but some are not?

June 13, 2017

Elections bring chaos to UK, unity to France

Two European nations, the United Kingdom and France, held parliamentary elections, with radically different results....

June 12, 2017

Chesterton on the Trinity

Yesterday was Trinity Sunday, following close upon Ascension (the incarnate Son taking His place in...

June 12, 2017

Puerto Rico votes to become the 51st state

Puerto Rico held a referendum on whether the U.S. Territory should apply for statehood. Voters...

June 12, 2017

Wonder Woman

We saw Wonder Woman over the weekend, which may be the summer's biggest box office...

June 09, 2017

Is Contemporary Christian Music Dead?

Contemporary Christian music used to sell some 50 million albums per year. Lately, it's been...

June 09, 2017

The Comey show

James Comey, the FBI director fired by President Trump, was interrogated in a congressional committee...

June 09, 2017

Is saying Jesus is the only way to salvation hate speech and discrimination?

Russell Vought is a Wheaton College alumnus who weighed in on the controversy over the...

June 08, 2017

From preoccupation with society to preoccupation with the self

Still more things I've picked up from Kenneth L. Woodward's Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and...

June 07, 2017

“When the secular was sacred”

I grew up in a liberal mainline denomination in the 1950s and 1960s, going to...

June 07, 2017

Trump undercuts his travel ban defenders

President Trump's restrictions on travelers from terrorist-supporting countries was thrown out by the courts. So...

June 07, 2017

Dilbert creator likes Trump & questions climate change

One of the funniest comic strips still going is Dilbert, Scott Adams' satirical takedown of...

June 06, 2017

What conservative churches & liberal churches have in common today

More from Kenneth L. Woodward's Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of...

June 06, 2017

NSA report says Russia hacked voting technology company

The big news is that a leaker of top secret intelligence information has been arrested....

June 06, 2017

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize lecture

Bob Dylan finally delivered his lecture for the Nobel Prize for Literature, submitting a 26-minute...

June 05, 2017

Walther on our “mystical union” with the Holy Spirit

Yesterday was Pentecost, the great festival remembering God's gift of the Holy Spirit. Thanks to...

June 05, 2017

New York Times just outed our top spy in Iran

The New York Times published an article that revealed the CIA's top spy in Iran. The newspaper...

June 05, 2017

Terrorists attack UK once again

Three terrorists ran their van into a crowd on London Bridge, then jumped out with...

June 02, 2017

Embedded religion vs. movement religion

I've been reading Kenneth L. Woodward's Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age...

June 02, 2017

Trump withdraws U.S. from Paris climate accord

President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement. He said that the...