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December 2024

December 02, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 12/2/24

The unintended consequences of deportation. A 40-cent bitcoin is now worth nearly $100,000. And Australia...

November 2024

November 29, 2024

Report on Classical Education

One of the few fronts in the culture wars that Christians are winning is in...

November 29, 2024

DISCUSS: Shopping Ideas

What suggestions would you have for your fellow Cranachers trying to think of a good...

November 28, 2024

Thanksgiving from the Perspective of an Old Person

My thankfulness has changed over the years. Now that I have passed my allotted threescore...

November 28, 2024

A Thanksgiving Prayer from the First Century

This Thanksgiving, pray a prayer from the earliest days of the Christian church.

November 27, 2024

Deconstructing Woke

The recent election may have marked the end of woke ideology as a political force. ...

November 26, 2024

Vocation and Cabinet Posts

President-elect Donald Trump's nominations for cabinet posts, which must be deliberated by the Senate, raise...

November 25, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/25/22

Americans join the immigrant wave flooding Europe. Election officials boast about disobeying election law. And...

November 22, 2024

Is the LCMS Evangelical or Mainline Protestant?

An article on the difference between evangelical and mainline Protestants made me wonder where the...

November 22, 2024

DISCUSS: Sports

To conclude this politics-free week (except for Monday), let's discuss the classic "safe topic": Sports.

November 21, 2024

Evolution with Purpose

Oxford biophysicist Denis Noble is not a creationist nor an advocate of Intelligent Design. But...

November 20, 2024

Finding the Holy Grail

The quest to find the Holy Grail, the cup that Christ used in His last...

November 19, 2024

How Christianity Invented the “Secular”

A new book shows how Christianity invented what seems to be its nemesis today: the...

November 18, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/18/24

What did NOT influence the election; the most pro-Trump racial group; and Catholics elected Trump.

November 15, 2024

Did the Reformation End Twenty-Five Years Ago?

Some Catholics are saying that the Reformation is over, so Protestants now should unite with...

November 15, 2024

DISCUSS: Trump’s Second Term

What do you think will happen with Trump's second term?

November 14, 2024

Christian Realism

Most conservative Christians are happy with the re-election of Donald Trump and the Republican's big...

November 13, 2024

Elections as God’s Judgment

Michael Brendan Dougherty is not a fundamentalist preacher but a sober mainstream conservative pundit. He...

November 12, 2024

Why Democrats Lost the Election

The Democrats were confident that they would sweep Donald Trump away. Instead, they suffered a...

November 11, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/11/24

Where Californians draw the line; the 4B movement; and the death of P'nut.

November 08, 2024

Trump Wins and So Does Abortion

Cultural conservatives shouldn't feel too giddy over Donald Trump's victory. The election also marked the...

November 08, 2024

DISCUSS: The Election

What are your thoughts about the election?

November 07, 2024

Trump’s Overwhelming Victory

Donald Trump was elected president. It wasn't even close. Given the magnitude of Trump's victory,...

November 06, 2024

Election Post-Mortem

The other media are hesitating to call the election, but the Cranach media network is...

November 05, 2024

Election Day

Some thoughts about Election Day: No one knows what will happen. The battleground state math....

November 04, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/4/24

Medical AI is hallucinating; a salient question on transgenderism in sports; and a bunch more...

November 01, 2024

What Has Happened to Our Holidays?

The season of holidays is upon us. Halloween is soon followed by Thanksgiving, which is...

November 01, 2024

DISCUSS: Tuesday’s Election

Tuesday is Election Day. So this weekend will be your last time at this space...

October 2024

October 31, 2024

How God Reforms His Church

This is Reformation Day, commemorating Luther's attempt, not to start a new church, but to...

October 30, 2024

What Has Happened to Halloween?

Halloween used to be a time when children would dress up in costumes and trick...