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September 2016

September 23, 2016

All Americans are Whigs

Lutheran political scientist James R. Rogers explains things like gay marriage and transgender bathrooms--and the...

September 22, 2016

Charlotte riots

Charlotte, where police shot a black man on Tuesday, went through a second night of...

September 22, 2016

Sexual progress

I blogged about the book by my former student Matthew Rueger, Sexual Morality in a...

September 22, 2016

The invention of grape juice to avoid communion wine

Grape juice didn't exist, as a product, until 1869. It was invented by a Methodist...

September 21, 2016

Finnish Lutherans say “no” to gay weddings

The state church of Finland will not perform same-sex weddings, even though gay marriage will...

September 21, 2016

Media election coverage

After the Republican convention, the media was giving Trump lots of unfavorable coverage. But once...

September 20, 2016

Religion’s economic impact

A study of the economic impact of religious institutions has found that congregations, charities, religious...

September 20, 2016

The left is “weaponizing” sports

In our polarized society, there are few safe topics when you strike up a conversation...

September 19, 2016

Civil rights must be “preeminent” over religious liberty

The U. S. Commission on Civil Rights is recommending that civil rights be made "preeminent"...

September 19, 2016

If Clinton drops out, Democrats want Sanders

What would happen if Hillary Clinton really is having serious health problems to the point...

September 19, 2016

Terrorist attacks in New York, New Jersey, & Minnesota

On Saturday, a pressure-cooker style bomb in a dumpster went off in Manhattan, injuring 29...

September 16, 2016

Pope plans to canonize priest killed by terrorists

Pope Francis says that he wants to make Father Jacques Hamel, the French priest killed...

September 16, 2016

Trump’s surge

Democrats and their media minions have been writing off Donald Trump's chances--just as the other...

September 16, 2016

Slow economy due to not enough government action?

A report from the Harvard business school argues that the reason the economy is growing...

September 15, 2016

Church removes minister for her atheism

We have blogged about the case of the atheist pastor. Gretta Vosper has been a...

September 15, 2016

The woman who married her daughter. And her son.

Here in Oklahoma, a woman is being charged with incest for marrying her daughter. Eight...

September 15, 2016

“Sully” screenwriter on vocation

The screenwriter for Clint Eastwood's movie Sully, about the pilot who saved his passengers by...

September 14, 2016

Tattooing Christians for 700 years

We have blogged about the way Coptic Christians in Egypt use tattoos as a way...

September 14, 2016

Making babies without women

The Frankenstein fear of reproductive engineering so far has been the future possibility that women could...

September 14, 2016

Moral decline update

"Radical and aggressive secularism and atheism have replaced religion in virtually every school and throughout...

September 13, 2016

ESV makes its final changes

The English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), in third place in popularity to the...

September 13, 2016

The health of our candidates

During ceremonies at the 9/11 memorial, Hillary Clinton fainted. Democrats and their media comrades...

September 13, 2016

Sugar industry paid scientists to blame fat

In the neverending battle against obesity, heart disease, and bad health, what are we supposed...

September 12, 2016

The 9/11 attacks 15 years later

Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I remember the shock and the...

September 12, 2016

The deplorables

Hillary Clinton puts a name to that category of Americans that Democrats most despise: "the deplorables."...

September 12, 2016

Star Trek & the Gene Roddenberry myth

A classic has been defined as a work of art that still holds up after...

September 09, 2016

Commemorating or undoing the Reformation?

On Reformation Day, October 31, the Pope will commemorate the Reformation in a common service...

September 09, 2016

Americans are still reading books

The death of the book has been greatly exaggerated. A Pew study has found that...

September 09, 2016

Why Tim Tebow is good for baseball

Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow has signed a minor league contract with the New York...

September 08, 2016

The internet as god

The internet is everywhere. It knows everything about you. It will solve all of our...