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October 2024

October 28, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 10/28/24

Withholding the evidence about transgender treatments. Where are the government-funded EV chargers? & From MAGA to...

October 25, 2024

Must Reads, 10/25/24

Beginning an occasional feature highlighting articles and posts worth reading: The third wave of dog...

October 25, 2024

DISCUSS: Your Must Reads

To roll out our new occasional feature "Must Reads," I invite you to also share...

October 24, 2024

From Discordia to Concordia

This year marks the 50th anniversary of when the advocates of theological liberalism walked out...

October 23, 2024

Convicted for the Crime of Silent Prayer

After two years of legal proceedings, an Afghanistan war veteran, Adam Smith-Connor, was found guilty...

October 22, 2024

The “In Terrorem Effect”

Prosecutors have found a way to punish people without convicting them. Simply putting someone on trial--even...

October 21, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 10/21/24

FBI's revised 2022 stats show violent crime was up, not down as reported; "one of...

October 18, 2024

Friday Miscellany, 10/18/24

Young men are now more religious than young women. Portlandia is replacing its entire government. ...

October 18, 2024

DISCUSS: Not Voting

A study has found that some 104 million people classified as "people of faith" are...

October 17, 2024

The Masons in History and in the Church

Most people today see all Masons as nothing more than members of a social club. ...

October 16, 2024

The Vatican’s New List of Seven Deadly Sins

The Christian church has long warned against the Seven Deadly Sins. These have been staples...

October 15, 2024

Garbage Time

The metaphor of "garbage time"--when the game is basically over, but you have to play...

October 14, 2024

Columbus/Indigenous People’s Day Miscellany, 10/14/24

The rest of the story about the jobs numbers. What happened to the government's "internet...

October 11, 2024

The Decline and Benefits of Reading Books

People are still reading texts, blogs, tweets, and online articles. But fewer of them are...

October 11, 2024

DISCUSS: The Lesser of Two Evils?

It is said that, when it comes to voting, Christians must often choose between the...

October 10, 2024

A Solution to Disinformation

Today when truth is widely seen as a "construction," information (facts), misinformation (incorrect facts), and...

October 09, 2024

“Reformation Begins with Ourselves”

Herman Bavinck, another Dutch Reformed theologian who worked with Abraham Kuyper in the Anti-Revolutionary Party, urges...

October 08, 2024

The Anti-Revolutionary Party

As Christians are trying to figure out how they should pursue politics and cultural influence...

October 07, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 10/7/24

Why political polls are inaccurate; big cases in the new Supreme Court term; and academics...

October 04, 2024

Why Do So Many Artists Become Radicals?

The contemporary art world is once again in thrall to political radicalism. Artist Megan Gafford...

October 04, 2024

DISCUSS: The Election, One Month Away

Where do you think the presidential election stands right now, one month before Election Day?

October 03, 2024

Baptism & Vocation; Identity & Purpose

There is a connection between baptism and vocation, which in turn connects to our identity...

October 02, 2024

A Conversation Between Two Lutheran Humorists

Humor can have salutary moral and religious effects, as we see in the literary traditions...

October 01, 2024

The Cult That Grew Out of Mainline Protestantism

We usually associate religious cults with some bizarre made-up religions or with some kind of...

September 2024

September 30, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 9/30/24

Politicians (and voters) vs. economists; communal kitchens; and how about augmented reality?

September 27, 2024

More Thoughts on the Original Nicene Creed

We blogged about the controversy over the "filioque" in the Nicene Creed. But there are...

September 27, 2024

DISCUSS: The Exploding Electronic Devices

Supporting Israel's fight against terrorists and all that, but are you bothered by its tactic...

September 26, 2024

Confessions of an Ex-Mainline Protestant

I grew up in mainline Protestantism and experienced it from the inside. I witnessed its...

September 25, 2024

What Happened When the Protestant Mainline Collapsed

The Mainline Protestant churches had long played the role as America's conscience. After their collapse,...

September 24, 2024

The Poet of Joy

Thomas Traherne is the great poet of joy. Or, to use his term, "felicity." We...