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April 2025

April 11, 2025

The Common Order of Christian Love

Luther's doctrine of the estates is an important facet--in addition to the Two Kingdoms and...

April 11, 2025

DISCUSS: Move Fast and Break Things?

Do you think Mark Zuckerberg's maxim of "move fast and break things" is a good...

April 10, 2025

The Nones Are Actually Declining

A brand new study found that 24% of Americans were "Nones" in 2023. But one...

April 09, 2025

The War Against the Body

Underlying many of our moral and cultural issues today is a war against the body,...

April 08, 2025

The End of Denominations in Ten Years?

American Protestantism is becoming "post-denominational." So observes Mark Tooley, who thinks it likely that many...

April 07, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/7/25

Upending the economy. The Marxist comic book. And how to thwart a black mass.

April 04, 2025

Shifting the Abortion Debate

If two-thirds of women (67%) who get abortions didn't want to, and almost as many...

April 04, 2025

DISCUSS: Make Birth Free

Americans United for Life is promoting legislation they are calling "Make Birth Free." It would require...

April 03, 2025

Vocation and the Division of Labor

Economists call our mutual interdependence the division of labor. Theologians call it the doctrine of vocation.

April 02, 2025

How Community Is Lost & Regained

To a large degree, we have lost our sense of community. MacIntyre's model--creed, story, practices--can...

April 01, 2025

What Is Needed for Community

We keep hearing about our need for "community"--how we've lost it, how we need it,...

March 2025

March 31, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/31/25

Trump's honeymoon is over. Abort the poor to save money. And Methodist schism sparks violence...

March 28, 2025

Canceling Shakespeare

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust plan to "decolonize" Shakespeare heralds the death of woke ideology and...

March 28, 2025

DISCUSS: The Seal of Confession

A proposed law in Montana would require clergy to report child abuse, even when they...

March 27, 2025

Why People Are Converting to Lutheranism

What the Lutheran Religious Life Survey found as to why people come into the Lutheran...

March 26, 2025

Surprising Data on Lutheran Converts

A study has found that "confessional" Lutheran congregations (traditional, liturgical, doctrinal) attract more converts (both...

March 25, 2025

“Abundance Liberalism”

Two journalists, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, are proposing a new kind of liberalism. Their book...

March 24, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/24/25

We really are getting stupider. American doctors are finally waking up to gender dysphoria. And...

March 21, 2025

Luther on Wars of Necessity

While Luther in general accepted Just War Theory, he also redefined the criteria, to the...

March 21, 2025

DISCUSS: Church Attendance & Online Worship

Should viewing an online service "count" as having attended church, for the purpose of either...

March 20, 2025

Just Wars & the Possibility of Success

One of the tenets of Just War Theory has been raised to argue that Ukraine...

March 19, 2025

There Is More to Freedom Than You Realize

Everyone wants to be free, but they mean different things by it. Brad Littlejohn explores...

March 18, 2025

LCMS Churchgoers Are More Conservative Than We Thought

The RLS, which cast doubt on the orthodoxy of half of the members of the...

March 17, 2025

St. Patrick’s Day Miscellany, 3/17/25

No cultural celebrations, except St. Patrick's Day. The God Jesus Christ. And a human rights...

March 14, 2025

“Mainline” Protestantism Is No Longer Mainstream

The new "Religious Landscape Survey" findings about "Mainline Protestantism" herald a significant development in the...

March 14, 2025

DISCUSS: Other Countries’ Dependence on the USA

To what extent do you think the United States should be responsible for the defense...

March 13, 2025

What Is an Evangelical?

The new Religious Landscape Survey says that 23% of American Christians are "evangelicals." But that's...

March 12, 2025

The LCMS: Not as Conservative as We Think We are

The new Religious Landscape Study includes a wealth of data on denominations, including the Lutheran...

March 11, 2025

The Religious Decline Has Stopped

Pew Research has released its 2023-24 Religious Landscape Survey (RLS), a detailed study of the...

March 10, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/10/25

OpenAI hallucinates 37% of the time. The Washington Post is changing its tune. And giving...