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May 2016

May 30, 2016

“Bring to his work a mighty heart”

In observance of today's holiday, the Daily Oklahoman printed excerpts of a Memorial Day address by...

May 30, 2016

Why Memorial Day?

The difference between Veterans' Day and Memorial Day, we are reminded, is that the former...

May 30, 2016

“To get to you, they’d have to go past us”

Most military recruiting ads lately have had a self-help theme ("be all that you can...

May 30, 2016

Libertarians put two governors on their ticket

Gary Johnson, former Republican governor of New Mexico, was nominated to be the Libertarian candidate...

May 27, 2016

More on Muslim conversions in Europe

As we've blogged about (see here and here and here), large numbers of Muslim immigrants are...

May 27, 2016

Donald Trump clinches GOP nomination

Donald Trump now has a total of 1,238 delegates, one more than the 1,237 necessary...

May 27, 2016

Oberlin students demand end to grades below C

Students at Oberlin, which has the reputation as a good school, are demanding that the...

May 26, 2016

Classical Lutheran Education

The Lutheran educational tradition, according to Thomas Korcok, is classical liberal arts education + catechesis....

May 26, 2016

“I am a nasty man with no heart”

When Russell Moore criticized Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee retaliated, as he always...

May 26, 2016

Looking for a new moral code

Barna has released a fascinating study on Americans' moral beliefs. Eighty percent are worried about...

May 26, 2016

The Thunder rolls. . .

Now that I live in Oklahoma, I can't help but get pulled into the vortex...

May 25, 2016

You’ve got to read “Being Lutheran”

There is a new book out from CPH that is very much worth reading: Being...

May 25, 2016

Methodists go pro-life

We mustn't give up on the Protestant mainline. At its recent General Conference, the United...

May 25, 2016

Was Christopher Hitchens reconsidering his atheism?

Christopher Hitchens was one of the most prominent of the "new atheists," but a book...

May 24, 2016

How Luther invented mass media

Media historian Andrew Pettegree has written a new book entitled Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk...

May 24, 2016

How feminism was hijacked by the pro-abortionists

Feminism at first was not pro-abortion. Not only were the 19th century Suffragettes pro-life, pioneering...

May 24, 2016

We aren’t as busy as we think we are

Chaucer describes a bustling lawyer (the Sergeant of Law) like this: Nowhere so bisy a man...

May 23, 2016

Online baptism

The Church of Scotland wants to increase membership by letting worshippers attend online. The...

May 23, 2016

The brain is NOT a computer

Brain researcher Robert Epstein explains that, contrary to what we keep hearing, the brain is...

May 23, 2016

Sanders voters for Trump?

Many supporters of Bernie Sanders do not like Hillary Clinton and are vowing that they...

May 20, 2016

Vocation and Commencement Addresses

Mollie Hemingway has a great piece in the Federalist about vocation as a theme in...

May 20, 2016

A Christian Democracy Party for the USA?

The United States has a two-party system, and both parties seem to be cracking up....

May 20, 2016

So what about the Constitution Party?

There is already a conservative third party: The Constitution Party. According to their website, they...

May 20, 2016

Confessing the intolerance of progressives

Nicholas Kristof, himself a progressive, castigates the intolerance of his fellow progressives when it comes...

May 19, 2016

Garrison Keillor on kinds of Christianity

Garrison Keillor has written a humorous, yet touching column about Christianity. He starts by lambasting...

May 19, 2016

Day Jobs

Scot McKnight has a post from an Australian source on the Day Jobs of 20 Famous...

May 19, 2016

Now that we are so connected, government surveillance is easy

Whether you think whistleblower Edward Snowden is a traitor or a hero, he makes some...

May 18, 2016

Top 5 religion and politics stories so far

The Religious News Service, not being able to wait for the New Year, issued a...

May 18, 2016

Voting for Hillary under the Hamilton Rule

Some Never Trump conservatives are saying they will vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump....

May 18, 2016

Untranslatable words

Adam was given the power to name things; that is, he, as well as human beings...