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March 2025

March 07, 2025

Going Too Far

Peggy Noonan says that the reason progressives crashed and burned is because they kept going...

March 07, 2025

DISCUSS: Should the NFL Ban the Tush Push?

The Eagles developed a play that is almost impossible to stop: Several big players line...

March 06, 2025

Giving Pastoral Care to Uppity Teenagers

[A free post.] Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger grew up and was confirmed in the Lutheran...

March 05, 2025

Lenten Sermons That Stopped the Chaos

The first week of Lent, 503 years ago, Wittenberg was in a state of chaos....

March 04, 2025

How an LCMS Tech Titan Lost His Faith & Is Getting It Back

[A free post.] Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, grew up in the Lutheran Church...

March 03, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/3/25

Measuring negative time. Court rules that zoos are not prisons. And the secret to a...

February 2025

February 28, 2025

What the Bible Says about the Spirit of the Age

I delved into Scripture to see what the Bible says about conforming to the spirit...

February 28, 2025

DISCUSS: Ukraine

What should be done about Ukraine and its war with Russia?

February 27, 2025

Is the Mind a Mirror or a Lamp?

Is the mind a mirror, reflecting the objective world, or a lamp, shining our inner...

February 26, 2025

Vocation and Outreach

One outreach theme that resonates powerfully with today's secularists is the doctrine of vocation. The...

February 25, 2025

How Conservatives Rediscovered Christianity

When we think of "conservatives" today, we tend to think of evangelicals, conservative Catholics, pro-lifers,...

February 24, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 2/24/25

In UK, the young are more religious than their parents or grandparents. The USA is back...

February 21, 2025

The Four Strands of America’s Christian Revival

Spencer Klavan describes four strains of American Christianity that date from colonial times and that...

February 21, 2025

DISCUSS: Should the U.S. Government Buy TikTok?

Should the United States start a sovereign wealth fund to invest money in the private...

February 20, 2025

The Authority for Liberal Theology

As Roger Olson has shown, "the best of modern thought," not the Bible, is the...

February 19, 2025

Wilsonian Expertise vs. Political Democracy

Reagan's Civil Service director says that the controversy over the DOGE reforms is based on...

February 18, 2025

The ESV’s Updated Translation

Crossway is updating the English Standard Version of the Bible. The changes are minimal, though...

February 17, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 2/17/25

Pro-life laws are saving lives after all. The Mafia's complaints. And Iran doesn't want to...

February 14, 2025

MAGA Targeting Lutherans?

Gen. Flynn is accusing "Lutherans" of money laundering and Elon Musk is siccing the DOGEs...

February 14, 2025

DISCUSS: Take Over or Eliminate?

Is it better to shut down big government operations or try to use big government...

February 13, 2025

Vocation and the Order of Love

Yesterday we discussed a theological and ethical concept called the "ordo amoris," the order of...

February 12, 2025

The Order of Love

Scripture tells us to love our neighbors. But how do we prioritize all of the...

February 11, 2025

Reading the Bible vs. Reading Anything Else

Sometimes we Christians approach the Bible like any other book, reading it as we would...

February 10, 2025

Shock and Awe Miscellany, 2/10/25

Do we really want Gaza? How can tariffs help our economy? Slashing the government.

February 07, 2025

On Virtue Signalling

The different varieties of virtue signaling at least acknowledge the reality of virtue and our...

February 07, 2025

DISCUSS: Trump and the Billionaires

Do we need to be concerned about the tech billionaires prominently displayed with the best...

February 06, 2025

Struggling Towards Christianity

As we've been blogging about, the New Atheists have given way to the New Theists,...

February 05, 2025

“Give-It-a-Name,” but Don’t Name Us

Philosopher Edward Feser explores woke language, particularly the "rhetorical tactic of subverting elements of normal...

February 04, 2025

A Heresy You Need to Know About

Catholic philosopher Edward Feser argues that "Wokism is the New Face of An Old Heresy," namely,...

February 03, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 2/3/25

Despite Stargate, China pulls ahead in the AI race. An executive order against transexual treatments for...