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May 2024

May 08, 2024

The Revolt of the Center?

Both Republicans and Democrats have been in thrall to their more extreme members, letting the...

May 07, 2024

Methodists Gone Wild

The United Methodists were willing to break their church for the cause of homosexuality. To...

May 06, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 5/6/24

France threatens to send troops to Ukraine. Young adults who can't write their name. And...

May 03, 2024

The Post-Liberal University

We shouldn't be surprised at the campus protests in support of Hamas terrorists over Israel,...

May 03, 2024

DISCUSS: Presidential Immunity

The Supreme Court heard arguments in Donald Trump's claim that the office of the president...

May 02, 2024

Abortion Supply and Demand

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the number of abortions in the United...

May 01, 2024

Tolkien on Vocation

J. R. R. Tolkien's short story "Leaf by Niggle" is a profound meditation on vocation....

April 2024

April 30, 2024

From Intersectionality to “It’s All One Thing”

University campuses are exploding with protests not seen since the days of the Vietnam War....

April 29, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/29/24

Major medical report repudiates transgendering children. Not hiring someone with a criminal record is racist?...

April 26, 2024

Where Christianity Is Growing the Most

While Christianity seems to be in decline in the United States, Europe, and other industrialized...

April 26, 2024

DISCUSS: Our Approach to Foreign Policy

The U.S. has pursued a "rules-based international order," with treaties and organizations that promote mutual...

April 25, 2024

“Rebrand Evangelicalism” by Bringing Back Denominations

Many Christians are saying that the term "evangelical" has acquired negative connotations and how that...

April 24, 2024

Christianity without Transcendence

Carl Trueman warns against a Christianity that loses its transcendent focus when it is drawn...

April 23, 2024

Trump’s Abortion Policy

In debating Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas wanted to leave the question of slavery up...

April 22, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/22/24

Ronald Reagan--and a Cranach subscriber--saved Israel (over Biden's objections); connection between the church slump and...

April 19, 2024

A Culture of Pilates

Andrew Fowler has a thoughtful post-Holy Week meditation at RealClearReligion on Pontius Pilate. He says,...

April 19, 2024

DISCUSSION: Trump’s “Deal” on Abortion

Donald Trump has been saying that he would work out a "deal" on abortion that...

April 18, 2024

Babyboomer Childhood

I came across some clickbait on things kids did in the 60s that parents would...

April 17, 2024

The Prodigal Generation

Happiness is down and mental health problems are up, especially among young adults under 30,...

April 16, 2024

Beliefs as Status Symbols

"Conspicuous consumption" is the use of luxury possessions to signal to one and all your...

April 15, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/15/24

Second jobs; women as closet conservatives; and why does it take so long to build...

April 12, 2024

“White Rural Rage”

A new book entitled "White Rural Rage" calls rural Americans the biggest threat to democracy,...

April 12, 2024

DISCUSS: The “Pre-War Era”?

"War is no longer a concept from the past," said Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister...

April 11, 2024

The Two Irreconcilable Poles of the New Right

American conservatism has been described as "fusionist," an alliance of traditionalism and libertarianism. But the...

April 10, 2024

It’s Mostly the Liberal Churches That People Are Leaving

The conventional wisdom is that church affiliation is plummeting because Christians hold to other culturally...

April 09, 2024

A Problem When Muslims Convert to Christianity

Adult baptisms are surging in France. As many as 10-20% of those are reportedly coming...

April 08, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/8/24

Cosmic coincidences and the total eclipse; adult baptisms soaring in France; and more evidence that...

April 05, 2024

A Parable for Artificial Intelligence

To help us think through the implications of Artificial Intelligence, Trevor Sutton cites a parable--or...

April 05, 2024

DISCUSSION: Grey Rhinos

We have "the elephant in the room" and "black swan events." To that menagerie Michele...

April 04, 2024

Critical Theory Reducing Itself to Absurdity

Reductio ad absurdum ("reduction to absurdity") is "disproof of a proposition by showing an absurdity to...