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May 2017

May 05, 2017

House votes to repeal & replace Obamacare

The House of Representatives voted to repeal and replace Obamacare, a long-time Republican commitment that...

May 04, 2017

Does mainline liberal Protestantism have just 23 years left?

More on the plight of mainline liberal Protestantism. . . . Evangelical scholar Ed Stetzer calculates...

May 04, 2017

The 10 characteristics of Germans

The United States, as is often said, is a nation that rests of ideas rather...

May 04, 2017

And now, war with Turkey?

Americans' strongest and most effective allies in the fight against ISIS are the Kurdish militias...

May 03, 2017

Making church buildings beautiful again

To be sure, people can pray and worship in any kind of building, a sheet...

May 03, 2017

Shake-up at the Heritage Foundation

Liberals have long used universities to do the research that guides their policies. Conservative scholarship,...

May 03, 2017

Data on why the Democrats lost

Now that the dust has settled from the presidential election and there has been time...

May 02, 2017

Shouldn’t liberals be going to liberal churches?

Mainstream liberal Protestantism is dying, with a decreasing number of people bothering to go to their...

May 02, 2017

Fox News co-president is ousted

Fox News has been a successful conservative-leaning news network. But it seems to be coming...

May 02, 2017

Congress gets busy on the budget & Obamacare

Congress has passed a spending deal that will keep the government from shutting down. The...

May 01, 2017

The Silver Chair will reboot the Narnia movies

Plans to film the Chronicles of Narnia are back on, as plans have firmed up...

May 01, 2017

Assessing President Trump’s first 100 days

Saturday marked President Trump's 100th day in office. Even though it's an arbitrary number and...

May 01, 2017

Back in the U.S.A.

We're back from Finland. We had a wonderful time, were well-received, and learned a lot....

April 2017

April 28, 2017

“Wednesday is the new Sunday”

More and more churches are holding church services on Wednesday evenings. And for more and...

April 28, 2017

Education and religion

Does having more education mean being less religious? That has been the conventional wisdom in...

April 28, 2017

Another Korean War?

President Trump brought all 100 Senators to the White House for a high level military briefing...

April 27, 2017

Plantinga wins Templeton Prize

Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga has won the Templeton Prize for contributions to religion. Plantinga has...

April 27, 2017

The big tax cut proposals

President Trump is releasing details of his tax cut proposals. He would significantly raise the...

April 27, 2017

Trump can’t withhold all money from sanctuary cities

A court ruled that President Trump may not withhold all federal funds from "sanctuary cities"...

April 26, 2017

A Lutheran Catholic and vocation

Our hosts here in Finland arranged a city tour of Helsinki with Emil Anton. As...

April 26, 2017

Profanity and politics

Politicians are now using the whole array of four-letter words in their speeches. President Trump...

April 26, 2017

International Trumpism?

What with England's Brexit vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald...

April 25, 2017

Confessional Lutheranism in Finland

Imagine that the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod suddenly went liberal. Pastors of every gender and...

April 25, 2017

Will the government shut down?

Back when we had a divided government, with President Bush and a Democratic congress and...

April 25, 2017

All Democrats must now support abortion

The new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, says that all Democratic candidates...

April 24, 2017

Totalitarianism vs. Religion

Some atheists accuse religion of being inherently "totalitarian." But, as sociologist Chandler Rosenberger, points out,...

April 21, 2017

A blow-by-blow account of the Trinity Lutheran arguments

The London Economist, of all sources, has published a description of the arguments in the Supreme...

April 21, 2017

Sexual harassment brings down Bill O’Reilly

Fox News sacrificed its top-rated program by firing Bill O'Reilly for multiple charges of sexual...

April 21, 2017

Dispatch from Finland

We are in Finland, safe and sound. We are having a good and fascinating time....

April 20, 2017

Hank Hanegraff, the Bible Answer Man, joins the Orthodox Church

Hank Hanegraff, who hosts the Bible Answer Man radio show and who operates the Christian...