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January 2024

January 25, 2024

An Empty Hell?

The pope recently said, "I like to think of Hell as being empty." Some evangelicals...

January 24, 2024

The Coming Plague of Locusts

In late April, TWO major broods of cicadas--also known as locusts--will emerge from their multi-year...

January 23, 2024

Undoing a “Constitutional Revolution”

The Supreme Court has just heard a case that might undo what has been called...

January 22, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 1/22/24

October 8 Jews, Christian Civilizationism, and Finnish persecutors appeal to the Supreme Court.

January 19, 2024

The “Vaporisation of Protestantism”

A French thinker, Emmanuel Todd, is blaming the decline of the West on the "vaporisation"...

January 19, 2024

DISCUSSION: On Sports

Why do we care so much about sports?

January 18, 2024

The Will of a Party vs. The Will of the Nation

As the election year gets under way, all agree that American politics is highly polarized. ...

January 17, 2024

Carl Trueman: Lessons from Lutheranism

Carl Trueman is a Reformed theologian who has become one of our best cultural critics....

January 16, 2024

Fear of Suffering

Behind many of our most contentious issues today is an extreme, pathological fear of suffering....

January 15, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/15/24

The presidential race begins, the disunited Methodists, and the pro-abortion strategy.

January 12, 2024

“Preference Falsification” and Woke Ideology

Social pressure often makes people pretend to believe and desire things, when actually they don't. ...

January 12, 2024

DISCUSSION: Your Epiphanies

On Monday we posted about Epiphany and epiphanies, the season celebrating the revelations of Christ's...

January 11, 2024

Postmodernism Is Now Infecting Science

As postmodern relativism, critical theory, leftwing politics, and woke ideology took hold in academia, the...

January 10, 2024

How “Anti-Racism” Morphed into “Anti-Semitism”

The spectacle of so many progressives calling for the genocide of the Jews is disorienting. ...

January 09, 2024

Legal Prayer vs. Illegal Prayer

The Australian state of Victoria has passed a law that regulates prayer, specifying what kinds...

January 08, 2024

An Epiphany Miscellany, 2024

The epiphany of the star; the epiphany of the incarnation; a literary epiphany; and a...

January 05, 2024

Christmas Leftovers

On Twelfth Night, the last day of Christmas, some final Christmas leftovers: Santa Claus vs....

January 05, 2024

DISCUSSION: What Good Things Happened in 2023?

Before we leave the topic of looking back and looking forward, we should consider one...

January 04, 2024

On the Pope’s Approval of Same-Sex Blessings

Pope Francis has approved a policy that will allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples,...

January 03, 2024

The Outlook for 2024

We made our predictions for 2024, but other people have been making predictions too. In...

January 02, 2024

Your Predictions for 2024

What do you think will happen--or might happen--in 2024? This is the time to hazard...

January 01, 2024

A New Year’s Miscellany, 2024 A.D.

A year in which the worst didn't happen (but might in 2024); the lessons of...

December 2023

December 29, 2023

Checking Our Predictions for 2023

A free post: As 2023 draws to a close, it is time to look back...

December 28, 2023

C. S. Lewis’s “Christmas Sermon for Pagans”

In a recently-discovered uncollected essay from 1946, C. S. Lewis explores the difference between pagans,...

December 27, 2023

The Lutheran Connection to Advent Calendars

Advent Calendars as we know them go back to the 1920s when Gerhard Lang published...

December 26, 2023

The Anniversary of Nativity Scenes

The Nativity Scene was invented in 1223--800 years ago--by St. Francis of Assisi. Sort of. ...

December 25, 2023

A Christmas Miscellany, 2023 A.D.

God the Baby; the world Jesus was born into; and Christianity, paganism, and the gospel....

December 22, 2023

Hamas, Bible Prophecy, and Dispensationalism

As we come to the last post in Advent, it's evident that even many Christians...

December 22, 2023

DISCUSSION: Christmas

This weekend, as we move into Christmas Eve on Sunday and Christmas day on Monday,...

December 21, 2023

How Not to Fix Higher Education

One solution being floated to the discrediting of elite universities due to antisemitism: reclassify Jews...