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August 2016

August 25, 2016

New study on church-going has surprises

Pew Research has released a new study on church-going, including why people leave, how they...

August 25, 2016

Study challenges LGBT assumptions

Public opinion, government policy, and Supreme Court rulings about LGBT issues has been predicated on...

August 25, 2016

Clinton Foundation pay for play

The Associated Press, no less, has been investigating the Clinton Foundation. It reports that over...

August 24, 2016

What Judaism teaches about the afterlife

It is often said that Jews don't believe in a life after death. In fact,...

August 24, 2016

The case of the trans-gender funeral director

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) (1993) is still the law of the land and can...

August 24, 2016

Libertarian candidate opposes 2nd Amendment liberties

As we blogged about (here and here), Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is dismissive of religious...

August 23, 2016

Pastors, have you been asked to do a gay wedding?

There have been about 120,000 same-sex marriages since they were legalized nation-wide last year. The...

August 23, 2016

Court blocks Obama’s bathroom mandate

Just in time for the new school year, a federal court has granted an injunction...

August 23, 2016

Did Rio cops distort the Lochte robbery story?

An investigation by USA Today says that there is more to the Ryan Lochte/US swim team...

August 23, 2016

Chance for free books

Are you familiar with GoodReads, a popular site for following authors, seeing what your friends...

August 22, 2016

Are Christians the powerful or the marginalized?

In the course of a post on why so many evangelicals are supporting Donald Trump,...

August 22, 2016

A meditation on Elvis

Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977. In honor of that anniversary, Sarah Condon at...

August 22, 2016

Why the LA Times poll differs from the others

Most polls show Donald Trump losing big time, especially in the crucial battleground states. But...

August 19, 2016

Why won’t bishops discipline Joe Biden?

Vice President Joe Biden performed a gay wedding earlier this month, getting special certification from the...

August 19, 2016

Swimmers go from honor to dishonor

Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte and three other members of the U.S. swim team lied...

August 19, 2016

Another staff shakeup for Trump and more Russian connections

For the second time since his nomination, Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign staff....

August 19, 2016

Mexico’s one gun store

Mexico's constitution guarantees the right of citizens to own firearms. But it also allows the government...

August 18, 2016

A comedy-thriller about the Reformation

You have GOT to read The Relic Master, a novel by Christopher Buckley (son of...

August 18, 2016

Outcome-based vs. morality-based voting

A lot of us dislike both of the major party candidates. Quite a few of...

August 18, 2016

New Zealand’s animal kill-off

New Zealand has almost no native mammals. Just bats. So when rats, possums, and stoats...

August 17, 2016

Saying God is transgender

The contours of a new liberal theology, one in accord with the new ideology of...

August 17, 2016

Morality as politics

The Pew Research Center has conducted a study finding that 64% of church goers heard...

August 17, 2016

Doctors push back against assisted suicide

Vermont has a law allowing for physician-assisted suicide. State agencies are interpreting the law so...

August 16, 2016

ELCA makes new accord with Catholics

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (the theologically liberal Lutheran denomination) has arrived at a...

August 16, 2016

Trump’s ideology test will require belief in gay rights

In a major speech on immigration and fighting ISIS, Donald Trump said that he would...

August 16, 2016

The Zika mystery & Zika abortions

Some women who get Zika have babies with severe birth defects, but some don't. In...

August 15, 2016

“Chariots of Fire” and the vocation of athletics

A rabbi writing in the Wall Street Journal offers reflections on Chariots of Fire, the 1981 movie...

August 15, 2016

The problems with Evan McMullin, but he has one chance to win

NeverTrump conservatives thought they might have a candidate they could vote for when ex-CIA agent...

August 15, 2016

Riots in Milwaukee

A police officer shot and killed an armed black man in Milwaukee, sparking a riot...

August 12, 2016

What Clinton thinks religious liberty is

In a play to capitalize on Mormon's dissatisfaction with Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton wrote an...