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August 2025

August 29, 2025

DISCUSS: Completely Realigning Baseball

Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has put forward a radical proposal to completely realign Major League...

August 28, 2025

The Personality Collapse

A study found that over the last ten years, while other age groups were relatively...

August 27, 2025

The 40 Jobs (Supposedly) Most at Risk from AI

A Microsoft research project broke down human jobs into their "work activities" and correlated them...

August 26, 2025

Trump Wants to Go to Heaven

Ten years ago, Donald Trump said that he has never asked God for forgiveness because...

August 25, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 8/25/25

Confidence in church is rising. Giving away free money doesn't help people. And Publishers' Clearing...

August 22, 2025

Conservatives in Favor of Socialism?

Our government is buying ownership of private companies, taking a share of their profits, telling...

August 22, 2025

DISCUSS: Infiltrate or Withdraw?

Which is the better strategy for cultural conservatives? "To infiltrate and reform elite institutions from...

August 21, 2025

Why Technology Will Never Take Over Completely

Watching videos of the robot Olympics made me realize why technology will never take over...

August 20, 2025

The New English Translation (NET) of the Bible

What makes the New English Translation (NET) unique are its 60,000 translation notes, which explain...

August 19, 2025

AI Is Sometimes PROGRAMMED to Be Dangerous

When AI chatbots do something bad or dangerous to users, we usually assume this is...

August 18, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 8/18/25

The 20 jobs that are safest from AI. Why traffic to the big porn sites...

August 15, 2025

A Marriage Renaissance?

New evidence shows that divorce is down, more children are living with their married parents,...

August 15, 2025

DISCUSS: Pessimism About the Future?

A writer says that trying to revive the space program is futile because of our...

August 14, 2025

Christianity’s Improved Social Status

"As the decline in religious attendance has slowed, the past few years have also seen...

August 13, 2025

The Scandal in Scientific Publishing

Fake research is being published in scientific, medical, and academic journals that was written by...

August 12, 2025

The ELCA Drops “And the Son” from the Nicene Creed

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has agreed to drop the "filioque" from the...

August 11, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 8/11/25

A baby who is 30 years old. No confidentiality with AI. And Christian revival in...

August 08, 2025

The Scopes Trial and Eugenics

The Scopes Trial, which marks its 100th anniversary on August 10, was not just about...

August 08, 2025

DISCUSS: Conservatism vs. Progressivism

Can we "throw off the burden of social and political membership, and start again from...

August 07, 2025

John Kleinig’s New Book on the Lord’s Supper

[A free post, to share.] Lexham Press has been publishing lots of Lutheran authors, to...

August 06, 2025

Re-enchantment or More Disenchantment?

With the rise of science over religion, "disenchantment" has become a hallmark of modernity. People...

August 05, 2025

The Persistence of Communism

A historian argues that the essence of communism is not economics but "a totalitarian imperative...

August 04, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 8/4/25

Tariffs and our still-good economy. Planned Parenthood received more tax money than PBS and NPR. ...

August 01, 2025

The Meaning of the Epstein Case

Just as the legend of Dracula depicts how medieval peasants saw blood-sucking aristocrats (until defeated...

August 01, 2025

DISCUSS: Do Democrats Need Their Own Trump?

It has been proposed, as party officials try to find a way forward, that Democrats...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

The Theological Problems with AI Sermons

The main problems with AI-generated sermons are not ethical but theological. AI-chatbots are not called...

July 30, 2025

The Ethical Problems with AI Sermons

Today 12% of Protestant clergy say they are comfortable using AI to write their sermons. ...

July 29, 2025

Secular Theodicy

Oswald Bayer has written about secular theodicy, pointing out that concluding that God must not...

July 28, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 7/28/25

Minneapolis is also going for a socialist mayor. Europe is making itself go extinct. And...

July 25, 2025

False Consciousness

Why the working class is so often conservative, while elites are so often radical has...