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June 2017

June 02, 2017

The ACLU is targeting Catholic hospitals

One in six patients in America today is treated in a Catholic hospital. The numbers...

June 01, 2017

There already is a church that is both evangelical and sacramental

Gordon T. Smith has written a book entitled Evangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal: Why the Church Should...

June 01, 2017

Five sentences that killed 200,000 Americans

Addiction to opioid painkillers has killed nearly 200,000 Americans and has devastated far more lives than that....

June 01, 2017

The founding document of professional sports

On February 2, 1876, the constitution of the National Baseball League was signed. Before that,...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Quantum physics is oppressive

Quantum physics is oppressive, according to a feminist scholar, because it promotes "binary and absolute...

May 31, 2017

Something conservative states and liberal states agree on

Deep blue liberal states and deep red conservative states agree on at least one thing:...

May 31, 2017

Should we sell off half the oil reserve?

The federal government has stockpiled a massive amount of oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve....

May 30, 2017

Guilt and shame

There is guilt, the inner torment that comes from doing what is wrong. And there...

May 30, 2017

Bioethical nightmares

Human embryos have been produced asexually, as with the cloning of Dolly the Sheep. Scientists...

May 30, 2017

Lawsuit for under-filled candy boxes

Someone is suing Hershey candies for underfilling boxes of Whoppers and Reese's Pieces. The package...

May 29, 2017

Forgetting what Memorial Day means

I learned that it is not good form to wish each other "Happy Memorial Day!"...

May 29, 2017

Trump son-in-law tried to set up secret communications with Russia?

President Trump's son-in-law and top advisor Jared Kushner (Ivanka's husband) talked to the Russian ambassador...

May 29, 2017

Trump back from his world tour

President Trump is back from his first official international trip. Most observers from all sides...

May 26, 2017

The new religiosity

An academic journal published an article by a scholar arguing that if there is "trangenderism,"...

May 26, 2017

Why is the left so sympathetic to Islam?

Why are liberals and leftists always defending Islam? They have nothing but scorn for Christians...

May 26, 2017

Now someone in the administration is leaking British secrets

President Trump has been bedeviled by someone in his administration leaking damaging information about him...

May 25, 2017

“Now He Is Very Near”

Some people think that Christ’s ascension into Heaven means that He is no longer with...

May 25, 2017

Fact checking the fact checkers

In this climate of "fake news," professional fact checkers have risen to new prominence. But...

May 25, 2017

Trump is good business for the liberal media

Ratings for the conservative Fox News are way down. The liberal MNBC, once hardly watched...

May 24, 2017

The invention of breakfast cereal and other wacky church history

You need to know about Luke T. Harrington, a Missouri Synod Lutheran who like me...

May 24, 2017

Trump tried to get intelligence officials to deny collusion

More comes out about President Trump interfering in the investigation of Russian connections with his...

May 24, 2017

Google will now track your brick & mortar purchases

Google will now track credit and debit card transactions at retail stores, in an effort...

May 23, 2017

The cup for the laity

The communion practice of the Roman Catholic Church, up until Vatican II, was for the...

May 23, 2017

Trump’s “taxpayer first” budget

President Trump has released his detailed budget proposal for 2018, an ambitious document that will...

May 23, 2017

Terrorism hits a concert

An explosion killed at least 19 and injured 50 at a concert by American pop...

May 22, 2017

Americans’ moral beliefs

Gallup has released its latest study of Americans' moral beliefs. Gallup's Values and Beliefs...

May 22, 2017

Trump’s world-religion tour

Donald Trump is on his first international trip as president, and he has an ambitious agenda....

May 22, 2017

Trump’s Islam speech takes religion seriously

Instead of condescending platitudes informing Muslims that their religion is actually a religion of peace,...

May 19, 2017

“The way of life” vs. “The way of death”

“I believe that as an abortion provider, I am doing God’s work.” So says Dr....

May 19, 2017

President Trump’s woes

The initial reports about the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate Russian attempts to...