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April 2024

April 03, 2024

Regulating Everything in the Name of “Health”

We all want good health. Improving people's health is surely a worthy goal. There is...

April 02, 2024

Easter Leftovers

It is still Easter, and the season will last for 50 days. Here are some...

April 01, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/1/24

Church of England group wanting to deconvert African Christians; The end of the internet as...

March 2024

March 31, 2024

“No One Is Shut Out from This Joy”

St. Leo (400-460 A.D.) said this in a Christmas sermon, but it still applies! Have...

March 29, 2024

Bach’s “St. John Passion”

If you went to the Good Friday Vespers service at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig...

March 29, 2024

DISCUSSION: Easter

This is the place to record Easter memories, Easter reflections, Easter joys, and anything else...

March 28, 2024

Sasse’s “This Is My Body”

A review of Hermann Sasse's "This Is My Body: Luther's Contention for the Real Presence...

March 27, 2024

The Martin Luther Chatbot

An article on Artificial Intelligence and religion reports on "Godbots," featuring AI chats programmed with...

March 26, 2024

New “Chronicles of Narnia” Movies in the Works

Netflix has started production on a new series of "Chronicles of Narnia" movies that will...

March 25, 2024

Holy Week Miscellany, 3/25/24

Only 8% of white evangelicals approve of Christian Nationalism; what's good about American evangelicalism; and...

March 22, 2024

The New Critiques of Religious Freedom

When we hear of attacks on religious freedom, we usually think of government restrictions or...

March 22, 2024

DISCUSSION: In Vitro Fertilization

After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen human embryos, engendered in fertility labs, are...

March 21, 2024

Technofeudalism

Capitalism is dead. And technology has killed it. What is taking its place is a...

March 20, 2024

Humans = Machines

Humanism has given way to "posthumanism," the blending of humans and machines. Robert Lazu Kmita...

March 19, 2024

Hope in a Time of Secular Despair

I review a new book by the Catholic thinker R. J. Snell entitled "Lost in...

March 18, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 3/18/24

Imprisonment without trial for a "hate crime" before it's committed, the UK bans puberty blockers,...

March 15, 2024

Why Conservatism Needs God

We have been blogging about the different kinds of conservatism contending today--National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism,...

March 15, 2024

DISCUSSION: Daylight Savings Time

Last Sunday we switched to Daylight Savings Time, bringing back the great debate about whether...

March 14, 2024

Can Artificial Intelligence Make Sacred Art?

Now that freely-available Artificial Intelligence programs can generate images, we are seeing them everywhere. But...

March 13, 2024

“Pre-Christian Man” vs. “Post-Christian Man”

Sebastian Morello makes an important distinction between being "pre-Christian" and "post-Christian." He then says that...

March 12, 2024

Shock at the Belief that Rights Come from God

A journalist was shocked to find that "Christian nationalists" believe that rights come from God...

March 11, 2024

Monday Miscellany 3/11/24

Another bad idea from France, Colorado's DNA scandal, and world hunger gives way to world...

March 08, 2024

The Man Who Predicted Our Technology and Its Impact

Sixty years ago, thirty years before the worldwide web, Marshall McLuhan not only anticipated the...

March 08, 2024

DISCUSSION: We Now Have a Ticket

The primary season to select the major parties' candidates is over for all practical purposes. ...

March 07, 2024

The Need for Chaos

We've been blogging about different political theories. Here is another one: Political Nihilism. As many...

March 06, 2024

We Contemporary Westerners Are WEIRD

An anthopologist says that many of our contemporary assumptions are WEIRD; that is, Western, Educated,...

March 05, 2024

A Sort of Defense of Woke AI

Google launched its much-hyped entry into large language Artificial Intelligence with Gemini, which can both...

March 04, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 3/4/4

Who gets to have free speech? Rejecting a church ad for "religious indoctrination." And the...

March 01, 2024

Why Protestants Convert to Catholicism

Some Protestants convert to Catholicism, according to a recent book, because of the failures of...

March 01, 2024

DISCUSSION: Frozen Embryos

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos used in IVF clinics are children and...