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September 2023

September 08, 2023

DISCUSSION: War in Mexico?

The very candidates who oppose America's involvement in Ukraine and our history of getting involved...

September 07, 2023

Secularization Is Due to CHILDREN’s Lack of Faith

In discussing "dechurching," Lyman Stone looks at the data and comes to a startling conclusion: ...

September 06, 2023

Are Changes in the Church Contributing to De-Churching?

Over the last few decades, church attendance and affiliation have dropped dramatically. Over those same...

September 05, 2023

Non-Worshipping Evangelicals

Zondervan has just released what promises to be an important book, "The Great Dechurching." In...

September 04, 2023

A Labor Day Meditation on Vocation

This is Labor Day, that secular holiday that we are Christianizing by making it be...

September 04, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 9/4/23

The inerrancy of Donald Trump, efforts to bring back COVID masks, and the Bud Light...

September 01, 2023

Churches Used to Hold Society Together

Churches used to help hold society together, a place for people of different social classes...

September 01, 2023

DISCUSSION: The Republican Presidential Candidates

The Republican presidential candidates had their first debate, so the field is shaping up. What's...

August 2023

August 31, 2023

“Matrimonial” Marriage

David Upham refers to two models of marriage: "companionate" marriage, oriented to companionship, and "matrimonial...

August 30, 2023

Victories in the Language Wars

Whoever controls the language, it has been said, controls how people think. The left has...

August 29, 2023

Oliver Anthony’s Critics from the Left, the Right, and the Religious

"Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony is a cry of the heart from...

August 28, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 8/28/23

Conservatives' pop culture moment, the courts keep supporting religious liberty, and Republican big spenders.

August 25, 2023

Luther on Heresy

In his treatise "On Temporal Authority," Luther argues that the state should not punish heretics...

August 25, 2023

DISCUSSION: Thought Crimes

Today's main post is about Luther's opposition to the state's attempt to stamp out heresy...

August 24, 2023

What Derrida’s “Pure Hospitality” Does to the Church

Hospitality is a Biblical virtue, but the deconstructionist Jacques Derrida has turned "pure hospitality" into...

August 23, 2023

Two Kinds of Inclusion

A common value expressed today--in corporations, schools, regulators, and churches--is "inclusion." But, as Tal Fortgang...

August 22, 2023

The Beauty of God

Jonathan Edwards is best known for his hair-raising fire and brimstone sermon "Sinners in the...

August 21, 2023

Monday Miscellany 8/21/23

Trump's 91 felony charges, hybrid genders, and 22 states outlaw sex change surgeries for children.

August 18, 2023

Why Once-Committed Adults Stop Going to Church

The decline in church attendance is not just due to young people. Large numbers of...

August 18, 2023

DISCUSSION: Church Burnout

Have any of you experienced church burnout? How did you deal with that?

August 17, 2023

The Vocations of Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers was a Christian apologist, a great translator and guide to Dante, and...

August 16, 2023

A Lutheran Case for Limited Government and Religious Liberty

As I was trying to think through the doctrine of the Two Kingdoms and the...

August 15, 2023

The Zombification of America

Jacob Howland has written a searing critique of our times entitled "America is now a zombie...

August 14, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 8/14/23

Successes in combating porn, voters in red states still want abortion, and U. S. bonds...

August 11, 2023

UFOs

A former high-level intelligence official told a congressional committee that he has classified evidence that...

August 11, 2023

DISCUSSION: Is Trump the Moderate?

Ron DeSantis has been attacking Donald Trump from the right, saying that Trump is too...

August 10, 2023

Meritocracy? What Meritocracy?

David Brooks takes to task his fellow Ivy League-educated professionals who have formed a new...

August 09, 2023

Elite Self-Knowledge

David Brooks has created a stir with a NYT column entitled "What If We're the...

August 08, 2023

And Now, “Freedom Conservatism”

We've blogged about "National Conservativism" and its manifesto. Now the other kind of conservatism, the...

August 07, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 8/7/23

The American Academy of Pediatrics will revisit "gender affirmation care"; Republican candidates hide their church, while...