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June 2024

June 11, 2024

Natural Religion vs. Supernatural Religion

Religion is natural for human beings, says Sebastian Morello. But natural religion tends to be...

June 10, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 6/10/24

Setbacks in the artificial intelligence revolution. The internet comes for Amazon tribes. And pro-life protesters...

June 07, 2024

Teaching People That Their Lives Have No Value

Even as societies have become careful not to "trigger" the suicidal but to encourage them...

June 07, 2024

DISCUSSION: “They’d Be Mentally Ill If They Were Happy”

"A lot of people who have depression don’t really have mental illness. They’re having the...

June 06, 2024

China’s Ambitions vs. Its Demographic Collapse

China has great ambitions. It hopes to replace the United States as the world's greatest...

June 05, 2024

The Woke Jihad

A puzzle about the campus protests in support of Hamas and in condemnation of Israel...

June 04, 2024

An Open Letter to Pastors in a Post-Christian World

A pastor recently thanked me for my "Letter to Pastors" that I wrote several years...

June 03, 2024

Monday Miscellany 6/3/24

Who is guilty of election interference, Trump or His prosecutors? NATO troops will"eventually" go to...

May 2024

May 31, 2024

Nones Have Stopped Growing (Except for Old People)

Demographer Ryan Burge has found that he percentage of Nones has stopped growing and hasn't...

May 31, 2024

DISCUSSION: God Is Watching

“The notion that God is watching you even when others are not is probably the...

May 30, 2024

The Vocation Option

As Christians try to respond to today's cultural challenges, a number of strategies have been...

May 29, 2024

The Church Is Both Shrinking and Growing

There is evidence that the church, while shrinking, is also growing. That is, the nominal...

May 28, 2024

The Barmen Declaration Then and Now

FREE POST: This year marks the 90th Anniversary of the Barmen Declaration, the statement of...

May 27, 2024

Memorial Day Miscellany, 5/27/24

On this memorial day, we consider: competing to get into the military; indignation at the...

May 24, 2024

God in the Womb

That the Incarnation began when Christ was "conceived by the Virgin Mary" tells us much...

May 24, 2024

DISCUSSION: Church Services that Only Last 15 minutes

An Anglican church in Wales is offering a church service that only lasts 15 minutes....

May 23, 2024

Conservatives Conserving a Liberal Status Quo

Brad Littlejohn says that, yes, Americans on the whole tend to be conservative, but only...

May 22, 2024

Christian Atheism

Yesterday we posted about people who do not believe in God but are not atheists. ...

May 21, 2024

Why Are So Few “Nones” Atheists?

One paradox of America's religious landscape is that the decline in religion is not being...

May 20, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 5/20/24

Canada's "blood libel against Christians"; the world's baby shortage; and the Taylor Swift liturgy.

May 17, 2024

LCMS Members’ Commitment to the Means of Grace

A defining tenet of Lutheranism is the belief that the Word of God, Baptism, and...

May 17, 2024

DISCUSSION: Muggeridge on Suffering

"Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost...

May 16, 2024