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December 2023

December 20, 2023

End Times Secularist Style

Christmas has its secularist version. Apparently, Advent, a time for reflecting on the End Times,...

December 20, 2023

Colorado Supreme Court Throws Trump Off the Ballot

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump is disqualified from appearing on that...

December 19, 2023

Is a Dictatorship “Increasingly Inevitable”?

Neo-conservative historian Robert Kagan has written a piece in the Washington Post entitled "A Trump Dictatorship...

December 18, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 12/18/23

The military stalemate in Ukraine, the Government's plan to seize patents, and locking out teachers who...

December 15, 2023

Santa Claus and Grace

For both the journalist Kennedy Hall and author G. K. Chesterton, the figure of Santa...

December 15, 2023

DISCUSSION: Who Would Be Your Pick for Person of the Year?

Time Magazine picked Taylor Swift as Person of the Year. Who would be your pick?

December 14, 2023

Instrumentalizing the Gospel

In the course of writing about Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion to Christianity, Carl Trueman raises...

December 13, 2023

Napoleon Complex

The biggest problem of "Napoleon" movie is that it conveyed nothing about why Napoleon was...

December 12, 2023

On the Radicals’ Takeover of Higher Education

The open support of Islamic terrorism and the rebirth of old-school anti-semitism--which goes beyond opposition...

December 11, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 12/11/23

A third war with U.S. involvement is brewing in South America; a radical new way...

December 08, 2023

Progressive Nihilism

Progressives, whether liberals or revolutionary Marxists, used to believe that we were progressing towards a...

December 08, 2023

DISCUSSION: Will Evangelicals “Rise Up” Against Trump?

Trump has been insulting evangelicals and attacking pro-lifers, refusing to support nation-wide limits, let alone...

December 07, 2023

Non-Institutional Christianity?

Since religion is natural to human beings, it will persist even after formal religious institutions...

December 06, 2023

Major Case Involving Lutheran High School & Hillsdale College

A judge has ruled that not taking federal funds does not exempt a nonprofit from...

December 05, 2023

Celebrating Christ’s Three Advents

"Advent" comes from the Latin words for "comes to," so the season is about how...

December 04, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 12/4/23

The word of the year, the end of Popular Science, and the Transgender Day of...

December 01, 2023

The Connection of Family to Faith

Children raised in two-parent families are much more likely to attend church when they grow...

December 01, 2023

DISCUSSION: Funny Stuff

This weekend, to lighten the mood and cheer ourselves up, let's not have a serious...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

The Coming Generation of Clergy

Young and upcoming members of the clergy are overwhelmingly "conservative/orthodox," with almost none of them...

November 29, 2023

The Psychology of Political Violence

The brutal attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians were shocking. Also shocking was the cheering...

November 28, 2023

A World Without Work?

Elon Musk says that Artificial Intelligence plus advanced robotics will eliminate the need for people...

November 27, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 11/27/23

Conservatives who repudiate the Founders; pro-lifers using leftist tactics; and Argentina and Netherlands vote anti-establishment.

November 24, 2023

Social Experiments That Didn’t Work

They had good intentions. They won the arguments. But the policies they put into place...

November 24, 2023

DISCUSSION: Is a Sense of Change in the Air?

Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman have the feeling that a change is in the air....

November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving and Vocation

We are right to thank God for our Thanksgiving feast and for all of our...

November 22, 2023

Hobbes on the Three Types of Government (& Which is Best)

Thomas Hobbes is one of those classic writers who stimulates thought and advances important ideas,...

November 21, 2023

The Decline of Christianity Causes the Decline of Liberalism?

We have been worrying about the decline of Christianity, and we have also been worrying...

November 20, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 11/20/23

Finnish Lutherans acquitted--again; the two most vocal Christians pull out of the presidential race; and...

November 17, 2023

From Islam, to New Atheism, to Christianity

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the Somali-Dutch activist and writer who, a cradle Muslim, has become...

November 17, 2023

DISCUSSION: Should We Reinstate the Draft?

Military experts say that the recruiting shortfall and the dramatic drop-off in the reserves have...