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November 2016

November 28, 2016

Fidel Castro is dead

Fidel Castro died at the age of 90, outlasting most of his Cold War adversaries....

November 25, 2016

Australian Lutherans: Wine and Confession

In the late 1830s, the British colonial government of Australia had a problem. There was...

November 25, 2016

Russian propaganda and the election

The Washington Post reports that "fake news" circulated before the election--such as reports of Hillary...

November 25, 2016

Recount in the rust-belt states?

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is calling for a recount of the votes in Wisconsin,...

November 24, 2016

Thanksgiving in Australia

It's strange being in Australia for Thanksgiving. We're getting together with some other expatriate Americans,...

November 24, 2016

Happy Dependence Day

July 4 is Independence Day. Thanksgiving is Dependence Day, a time to remember how dependent...

November 23, 2016

Confession app

A Scottish diocese has released an app that will help someone in urgent need of confession...

November 23, 2016

Banning video of happy Downs children

France has banned the showing of this video on French television on the grounds that...

November 23, 2016

Trump is changing some positions

Donald Trump seems to be backing off from some of what he said on the...

November 22, 2016

The day JFK, Aldous Huxley, & C. S. Lewis died

On November 22, 1963, three icons of the 20th century died: John F. Kennedy, Aldous...

November 22, 2016

What Trump will do on his very first day

Donald Trump announced a series of executive actions that he will put in place on his...

November 22, 2016

Oldest Hebrew alphabet found in ancient Egypt?

A researcher has found ancient inscriptions in Egypt that he claims are Hebrew transliterations of...

November 21, 2016

Christ the King

Hispanic martyrs put before the firing squads by socialist dictators would call out as their last...

November 21, 2016

The Chris Christie purge

There was more to the purge of Chris Christie and his allies from the Trump...

November 21, 2016

Clarifying the majority-minority America

We keep hearing that we will soon become a "majority-minority" country in which whites will...

November 18, 2016

The inevitable march of History

The "progressive" worldview assumes that society is getting better and better. That is to say,...

November 18, 2016

The Left’s support of Donald Trump

The Wikileaks e-mails of Democrats' correspondence show that the Hillary Clinton campaign feared running against...

November 18, 2016

Why presidents should take a salary

Donald Trump, rich guy that he is, has said that he will not take the...

November 17, 2016

The Two Cities vs. the Two Kingdoms

It's common to associate Augustine's Two Cities with Luther's Two Kingdoms. But they are really...

November 17, 2016

An electoral vote campaign vs. a popular vote campaign

That Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote should be of concern to Republicans, Democrats...

November 17, 2016

Vast oil deposit discovered in Texas

Geologists have found a site in the Permian Basin in Texas that holds some 20...

November 16, 2016

A Lutheran critique of Escondido theology

Westminster Seminary in Escondido, California, has some impressive theologians--Michael Horton, David Van Drunen, and other...

November 16, 2016

Trump’s briefings on America’s “deep secrets”

New presidents get three special intelligence briefings on America's "deep secrets." These cover our intelligence resources,...

November 16, 2016

No one won a majority of votes

Democrats are claiming a moral victory--and sometimes an actual rightful victory--by saying that Hillary Clinton...

November 15, 2016

The curses on vocation

Picking up from yesterday's post, something else I learned from Jordan Cooper's presentation on the...

November 15, 2016

Trump and the culture war issues

An Associated Press story, excerpted and linked after the jump, says that Trump's election victory...

November 15, 2016

Euthanizing the mentally ill

Assisted Suicide laws usually have a provision specifying that a person must be "mentally competent"...

November 14, 2016

Vocation as the foundation of culture

I learned some things at the Two Kingdoms conference I spoke at, sponsored by Jordan...

November 14, 2016

Best case & worst case scenarios for Trump

Politico asked a wide range of experts to sketch out what they think would be...

November 14, 2016

Leon Russell dies

Another icon of my youth, Leon Russell, passed away at age 74. A piano player...