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February 2017

February 10, 2017

Appeals court rejects Trump’s immigration ban

The lower court that blocked President Trump's ban on immigrants from seven terrorist-plagued countries was upheld...

February 10, 2017

Why millennials are having less sex

Millennials are having less sex than their peers in previous generations. But it isn't, for...

February 09, 2017

Should tax-exempt churches be allowed to preach politics?

In 1954, President Lyndon Baines Johnson pushed through a law that would revoke the tax-exempt status...

February 09, 2017

Selling abortions

Abortion is Planned Parenthood's product. Like other businesses, Planned Parenthood imposes sales quotas and uses...

February 09, 2017

Another Dead Sea Scrolls cave discovered

Archeologists have discovered a 12th cave that once held Dead Sea scrolls, ancient Biblical and...

February 08, 2017

A rite for changing to a new gender?

At Baptism, among other things, a child is named. So what about those who later...

February 08, 2017

A catalog of fake news stories about Trump

Trump's opponents seem to have coined the term "fake news" to describe hearsay and rumors that...

February 08, 2017

Betsy DeVos wins confirmation, barely

The Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, after an intense Democratic effort to...

February 07, 2017

How “strange” it was that Rome became Christian

That a religion like Christianity converted Rome and its empire is a "historical anomaly," a...

February 07, 2017

Putting Iran “on notice”

President Trump has put Iran "on notice" for its recent ballistic missile tests, which were...

February 07, 2017

Don’t expect a religious freedom order

A draft copy of an Executive Order on religious freedom was leaked, creating indignation among liberals...

February 06, 2017

Pastors have happier marriages, stronger families than usual

Barna Research has published a new study on the problems, challenges, and personal life of...

February 06, 2017

Judge reverses Trump’s immigration order

A federal judge has thrown out President Trump's executive order on immigration. So visitors and...

February 06, 2017

Did Trump slander America?

In an interview aired Sunday, Bill O'Reilly asked President Trump why he is so supportive...

February 06, 2017

Super Bowl post-mortem

What a great Super Bowl. New England was down by 25 points late in the...

February 03, 2017

Conform to reality or subdue reality?

Justin Taylor quotes from C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man. Peter Kreeft calls these...

February 03, 2017

Trump will retain Obama’s LGBT policy

As conservatives are giddy and liberals are panic-stricken over various policies put into place by...

February 03, 2017

“An intellectual superstar”

Princeton's Robert P. George is one of our most prominent conservative thinkers, so it's interesting...

February 02, 2017

The Superbowl and vocation

The Superbowl is this weekend, time for the obligatory polls about whether or not God...

February 02, 2017

The anti-Trump “resistance”

Democrats have gone into full resistance mode, with Democratic Senators boycotting confirmation hearings to prevent...

February 02, 2017

A problem with self-driving cars

Automotive technology has advanced to the point that self-driving cars are already on our highways,...

February 01, 2017

The Marburg Colloquy online

Did you know that a transcript survives of the Marburg Colloquy (1529), in which Luther...

February 01, 2017

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

President Donald Trump has nominated Colorado appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme...

February 01, 2017

“Pregnant people”

The British Medical Association has issued guidelines saying that to avoid offending the transgendered, health...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

C. S. Lewis, atheist

C. S. Lewis, one of the foremost Christian apologists, had been for 15 years a convinced...

January 31, 2017

The three causes of war

The great Athenian historian Thucydides said that there are three causes of war: (1) honor (2)...

January 31, 2017

Immigration chaos

President Trump's executive order blocking entry into the United States of citizens of seven nations...

January 30, 2017

LCMS president on immigration issues

When it comes to immigration issues, there is the obligation of the State to enforce...

January 30, 2017

Planned Parenthood does NOT offer pre-natal care

Defenders of Planned Parenthood say that the organization does more than perform abortions. It also...

January 30, 2017

Now a human/pig hybrid

Scientists have combined the cells of a pig with the cells of a human, resulting...