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May 2025

May 16, 2025

DISCUSS: What Makes America Great?

"The hat reads, 'Make America Great Again," observes Jay Nordlinger. "Leaving aside the question of...

May 15, 2025

A New Book on Applying the Three Estates

A FREE POST: Rev. Paul Williams of the Lutheran Church of Canada has written a...

May 14, 2025

Luther & the Confessions on the Bishop of Rome

Luther called on the Pope to be considered as just another bishop, as he was...

May 13, 2025

The American Pope

The conclave of cardinals elected a new pope to rule the Roman Catholic Church, and...

May 12, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/12/25

Trump apparently stopped a new war that had broken out between India and Pakistan, both...

May 09, 2025

The Three Modes of Religion (and What May Come Next)

If we are moving into a post-secular era, a broad-based recovery of religion in society,...

May 09, 2025

DISCUSS: Should We Attack Iran?

As talks over Iran's quest for nuclear weapons break down and Iran's support for Houthi...

May 08, 2025

Surprises from a Huge Study on Human Flourishing

An international study of human flourishing has been released, and it is full of surprises.

May 07, 2025

Changing the Culture from Above or Below?

Is culture changed primarily from below, by masses of people transforming their thinking and behavior,...

May 06, 2025

The Conclave to Elect a New Pope

Tomorrow, 135 cardinals will be locked up in the Sistine Chapel until they have elected...

May 05, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/5/25

Canada's election. Only 11% of transgender "women," or fewer, get the operation. And the truth...

May 02, 2025

Tariffs and the Labor Problem

Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" supports Trump's tariffs and his goal of bringing manufacturing back,...

May 02, 2025

DISCUSS: Make America Religious Again

President Trump has said he wants to help make America more religious than it has...

May 01, 2025

The Sacraments and Vocation

I stumbled across an article on Eastern Orthodoxy that relates the sacraments to what we...

April 2025

April 30, 2025

The Stoic Revival

Christians have been discussing the evident decline in affiliations with Christianity. Well, other religions are...

April 29, 2025

Learning from a Communist

The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci said that "politics is downstream of culture," so that the...

April 28, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/28/25

Generating "bodyoids": Humans with no minds. Wisconsin trick increases school funding for 402 years. And...

April 25, 2025

The Faith-Religion Cycle

Researchers note that while church affiliation has plummeted, religious beliefs have not. They conclude that...

April 25, 2025

DISCUSS: Should We Ban Drug Advertising on TV?

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, among his many...

April 24, 2025

The Every-Hundred-Years Revival

Great Britain has had the reputation as one of the most secularized nations in the...

April 23, 2025

A “Free Country” Outlawing Certain Prayers

Some Australian states are regulating what you are allowed to pray for and what pastors...

April 22, 2025

My AI Buber-Buddy

While working on my new book on "Technology and Vocation," I had an uncanny, ironic,...

April 21, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/21/25

The Pope has died. Illinois Bill Would Restrict Homeschooling. And Poland's Per Capita Economy to Surpass...

April 20, 2025

Easter Wings by George Herbert

Easter Greetings from our friend George Herbert!

April 18, 2025

My Song Is Love Unknown

The popular Good Friday hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown" is based on two poems...

April 18, 2025

DISCUSS: The Death of God

The "death of God" is a claim made by Nietzsche and arch-liberal theologians who embrace...

April 17, 2025

The “Vast and Spacious Things” at Gethsemane

I owe a lot to the great Christian poet George Herbert: my dissertation, my career,...

April 16, 2025

A Stunning Text on Vocation from the Apocrypha

I quite randomly stumbled upon a passage from The Book of Sirach (a.k.a., Ecclesiasticus) in...

April 15, 2025

Bad Theology Causes Church Decline

Christopher D. Raymond looks at the recent data about the decline in church affiliation and...

April 14, 2025

Holy Week Miscellany, 4/14/25

There are two "Last Supper" movies. Even tourists won't be allowed to worship in China. ...