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October 2025

October 03, 2025

On the Antichrist and the Necessity of a Sacred Order

Novelist Paul Kingsnorth, the former radical environmentalist turned Eastern Orthodox Christian, has been saying that...

October 03, 2025

DISCUSS: AI-Generated Bible Videos

Speaking of AI, what do you think of the AI-generated Bible videos?

October 02, 2025

Tech Magnate Is Worried about the Antichrist

Peter Thiel is predicting the coming of the Antichrist. No, not the pope. Not Donald...

October 01, 2025

Christianity in Ecuador

We Americans were moved and inspired by our Ecuadorian hosts' piety and devotion--their zeal for...

September 2025

September 30, 2025

Classically Educated in Ecuador

In our accreditation visit to a school in Cuenca, Ecuador, I found that not only...

September 29, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 9/29/25

Thoughts on Charlie Kirk. U.S. test scores hit new low. And AI-written books on Kirk's...

September 26, 2025

Prayer and God’s Name

The Lord’s Prayer reminds us that it makes a huge difference whom we are praying...

September 25, 2025

Peer Pressure vs. Integrity

Some of the exercises designed to teach young people not to give in to peer...

September 24, 2025

Doing Without Church

Today, a growing number of Christians have been pulling out of churches. Despite the continued...

September 23, 2025

Missionaries to Our Heathen Darkness

As Christianity declines in the West, churches from the old mission field are the ones...

September 22, 2025

How Sin Destroys Freedom

For many of us, freedom above all means the liberty to sin. But, according to...

September 19, 2025

God’s Other Kingdom

Clearing up a topic that is often misunderstood and misapplied: the doctrine of the Two...

September 18, 2025

Justifying Ourselves

We always keep insisting how good we are. Even Christians do, while confessing in other...

September 17, 2025

When Culture Opposes Family

The family is the foundation of culture, as all anthropologists agree. But today in the...

September 16, 2025

A Tale of Two Funerals

On two funerals I attended and the different ways they responded to grief: emotional catharsis...

September 15, 2025

The Cranach Blog While I’m in Ecuador

By the time you read this, if all goes well, I should be in Cuenca,...

September 15, 2025

The Wrong Kind of Enthusiasm

This is my very first contribution to "Tabletalk," published in June 2001. I wrote about...

September 12, 2025

“Full-Fat Faith” vs. “the Diet Versions”

A writer on the resurgence of church attendance In the UK says that the churches...

September 12, 2025

DISCUSS: Political Violence

In a discussion of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, my fellow Patheos blogger...

September 11, 2025

The End of Free Market Capitalism in the USA?

A conservative economist laments, "The free-market capitalism that saw this nation prosper like no other...

September 10, 2025

Americans Are Stuck in Place

American citizens used to be highly mobile, criss-crossing the country to pursue better jobs and...

September 09, 2025

Schools That Don’t Teach Knowledge

A cognitive scientist complains, "Schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching."

September 08, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 9/8/25

Generation Z takes the lead in church going. American farmers are in trouble. And the...

September 05, 2025

Teaching Children to Despair

Schools are teaching our children that their country is bad, that oppression is everywhere, that...

September 05, 2025

DISCUSS: What Books Shaped You in High School?

NPR asked listeners, "What books shaped you in high school?" Some who responded cited books...

September 04, 2025

Gnostic Conspiracies

As we live our every day lives in our every day world, we may think...

September 03, 2025

Abortion May Account for ALL of the Decline in Births

Our fertility rate has been declining, to the point that it is now well below...

September 02, 2025

The AI Bubble

Business and financial media have been reporting on the impending danger of an AI "bubble." AI...

September 01, 2025

Vocation Day Miscellany, 9/1/25

Catholics discover Luther's doctrine of vocation, but some are pushing back. Some evangelicals hold to...

August 2025

August 29, 2025

How to Make Natural Law Arguments

[A free post] Is it possible to argue rationally and persuasively about moral and cultural...