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June 2016

June 24, 2016

Sex as sacrament, abortion as religious ritual

More from Mary Eberstadt and her new book, discussing how sex is the sacrament for the...

June 24, 2016

Trump’s evangelical advisory board

Donald Trump has appointed an evangelical advisory board. See who's on it after the jump....

June 24, 2016

Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” compared with Spirit’s “Taurus”

A lawsuit claimed that the opening riff to Led Zeppelin's iconic "Stairway to Heaven" was...

June 23, 2016

Secular progressivism as church

Secular progressivism has assumed the form of an institutionalized religion, complete with orthodox dogmas that...

June 23, 2016

LCMS judge on trial for her views on marriage

More on Ruth Neely, the Wyoming judge and member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod,...

June 23, 2016

Britain votes today on whether to stay in the European Union

Today is the day that Great Britain votes on whether or not to stay in...

June 22, 2016

Trump’s summit meeting with evangelical leaders

Donald Trump met with some 1000 evangelical leaders at Trump Tower in New York City...

June 22, 2016

California may require Christian schools to change their teachings

California is considering a bill that would remove the exemption for faith-based colleges and universities...

June 22, 2016

Bob Dylan’s new album

Bob Dylan has released a new album, Fallen Angels. (If you have Amazon Prime,...

June 21, 2016

Living among the tombs

Our pastor (and son-in-law) Ned Moerbe had an outstanding sermon last Sunday on the demoniac...

June 21, 2016

Final plots to stop Trump at the convention

Most of the Republican party establishment has reconciled itself to the fact that Donald Trump...

June 21, 2016

Olympics woes

The Olympic games in Brazil start in about seven weeks. The state government that includes...

June 20, 2016

The first day of summer and God’s promises

In our Bible class on Sunday, in which we studied the flood in Genesis, we...

June 20, 2016

Pope says most married people aren’t really married

Roman Catholicism famously doesn't believe in divorce. But it does believe in annulments, a procedure...

June 20, 2016

Trump’s worldview

I am astonished that Eric Metaxis, author of Bonhoeffer and heir to Chuck Colson's Breakpoint,...

June 17, 2016

The end of the written word?

Facebook is predicting the end of the written word--at least on Facebook, which the head...

June 17, 2016

Are Christians responsible for the Orlando shooting?

The left is blaming Christians for the Orlando attack on gays and lesbians, while defending...

June 17, 2016

Gays are buying guns for self-defense

Commenters on the Orlando shooting have been calling for more gun control. But now, in the aftermath...

June 16, 2016

Pope gives Mary Magdalene same status as Apostles in church year

Pope Francis has elevated Mary Magdalene's saint's day to a "major feast," putting her on...

June 16, 2016

Data on conservatives being psychotic actually referred to liberals!

Remember the study, still cited by liberals, that found that a correlation between "psychoticism" and...

June 16, 2016

We now have User Blocking on Disqus

Since we left the World Table comment system and went back to Disqus, the discussions...

June 15, 2016

Matt Harrison re-elected President of LCMS

Rev. Matthew Harrison was re-elected today for his third term as president of the Lutheran...

June 15, 2016

New study of Americans’ moral beliefs

Gallup has released a new study of Americans' moral beliefs, and it's full of surprises...

June 15, 2016

Importing illiberalism

David Harsanyi asks, referring to the technical word for free societies, "Why is it that...

June 15, 2016

A call to repeal the Second Amendment

In a piece for Rolling Stone, Drexel constitutional law professor David S. Cohen calls for...

June 14, 2016

Orthodox Church will have its “Vatican II”

The "Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church" will be held in Crete, June...

June 14, 2016

Transgendered men in women’s sports

The sports world obediently accepts the new cultural mandates about gender. That means transgendered men...

June 14, 2016

Thoughts about the Orlando shootings

Liberal commentators on the Orlando shootings are downplaying Islamic terrorism as a factor to concentrate...

June 13, 2016

Millennials and vocation

Barna has done a study of the millennial generation's attitude towards work. Most do not...

June 13, 2016

Clinton ad tries to woo Christians with pro-life imagery

Clinton's SuperPAC is running an ad showing a disabled child, complete with parents talking about...