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May 2017

May 19, 2017

The Reformation wars as board game

Right after Luther's death, the Holy Roman Emperor resolved to undo the Reformation by military...

May 18, 2017

5 more arguments for the existence of God

St. Thomas Aquinas famously formulated 5 arguments for the existence of God. Robert H. Nelson...

May 18, 2017

Special prosecutor appointed

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has appointed a Special Counsel--a.k.a., Special Prosecutor--to investigate Russian attempts...

May 18, 2017

Blog update & our FaceBook page

BeliefNet, having purchased Patheos, is planning a new look and new features for its family of...

May 17, 2017

The 221 religions

The U.S. military has compiled a list of religions, numbering 221. Though including varieties of...

May 17, 2017

“I hope you can let this go”

Fired FBI director James Comey has reportedly kept a paper trail of President Trump's inappropriate...

May 17, 2017

Flushing a friend

I have long complained about contemporary funerals. But I have learned about yet another way...

May 16, 2017

Believing, behaving, belonging

The Pew Study of religious belief in former Communist countries that we blogged about recently...

May 16, 2017

Treating pets like children

Young adults are not having children, much. But they are having pets in great number....

May 16, 2017

Officials deny claim that Trump revealed secrets to Russia

In yet another controversy, The Washington Post reported that President Trump revealed top secret information to...

May 15, 2017

The little nation that defeated the Soviets

A nation is defined by its history and its people's common experiences. That is especially...

May 15, 2017

Assault on pro-life doctors

The Hippocratic Oath specifically forbids physicians from committing abortion or euthanasia. So that oath isn't used...

May 15, 2017

Global cyberattack stopped by 22-year-old who lives with his parents

A massive ransomware attack on Friday hit 99 countries and shut down thousands of operations,...

May 12, 2017

The religious comeback after Communist atheism

A study by Pew Research shows the massive failure of Soviet atheism. In the 18...

May 12, 2017

Trump changes his story on the Comey firing

President Trump's order firing F.B.I. Director James Comey said that the action was taken because...

May 12, 2017

Repealing chivalrous laws

The Oklahoma state legislature, supposedly a conservative lot, has repealed the criminal seduction law, which...

May 11, 2017

Indonesia convicts Christian governor of blasphemy

A court in Indonesia has found the governor of Jakarta, a Christian, guilty of blasphemy and...

May 11, 2017

Donald Trump, diplomat

The liberal Moon Jae-In was elected president of South Korea on a platform of improving...

May 11, 2017

Abortionist on “euthanizing” the baby

An abortion clinic in Albuquerque will abort a baby at any stage through all nine...

May 10, 2017

The immigrant converts in Finland

I have been blogging quite a bit about the Muslim immigrants in Europe who are...

May 10, 2017

We mustn’t call breastfeeding “natural”

An article in the medical journal Pediatrics says that it is “unethical” to describe breastfeeding...

May 10, 2017

Trump fires FBI Director Comey

President Trump fired James B. Comey, the director of the FBI. The reason given was...

May 09, 2017

Religious liberty in the military

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod may yet again be headed to the Supreme Court,...

May 09, 2017

How Trump is reshaping the federal courts

Conservatives are happy about Neil Gorsuch's appointment to the Supreme Court. But President Trump also...

May 09, 2017

Nullification by campaign statement

President Trump's revised travel ban is before the courts again. Once more, the main argument...

May 08, 2017

Challenges for conservative churches in Scandinavia

In Finland, I taped three programs for the Christian television network. The host, Leif Nummela,...

May 08, 2017

The Republican defeat on the spending bill they passed

Republicans control the presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. And yet, in passing...

May 08, 2017

The French set-back for global Trumpism

Many observers thought that the ascendancy of Donald Trump and Great Britain's vote to leave the...

May 05, 2017

Open communion that includes Muslims

In Atlanta during Holy Week, the entire diocese of the Episcopal Church held a Mass in...

May 05, 2017

Trump signs religious liberty order

President Trump issued an executive order on religious liberty. It allows churches and other religious...