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November 2022

November 03, 2022

Big Government Conservatism?

Most American conservatives believe in limited government, individual freedom, and free market economics. Some on...

November 02, 2022

Should the Term “Conservative” Be Dropped?

John Daniel Davidson argues that conservatism has traditionally been about conserving things: the family, religious...

November 01, 2022

The Claim that Trump Is the Christ

The pagan practice of thinking of temporal leaders as gods is back. It is being...

October 2022

October 31, 2022

Oh, Hell

Halloween and Reformation Day are both occasions to reflect on Hell. Even conservative churches don't...

October 28, 2022

Math & Reading Scores Plunge to Record Lows

Math scores for fourth and eighth graders dropped to their lowest level ever. Reading scores...

October 28, 2022

DISCUSS: What Reforms Does the Church Need Today?

What about the church today could use "reformation"? That is, what needs reforming in the...

October 27, 2022

Augustine on Abortion, Miscarriage, & the Law

St. Augustine wasn't sure when life began, but, contrary to how pro-abortionists are trying to...

October 26, 2022

Worship in the Metaverse

Lutheran pastor and media scholar Trevor Sutton discusses the efforts of some churches to hold...

October 25, 2022

Luther at the Movies Destroys the Metaverse

Anthony Sacramone, of Luther at the Movies fame, is the editor of Religion & Liberty,...

October 24, 2022

5 Tips To Keep In Mind When Visiting A Lutheran Church

When I first attended a Lutheran service, like many other visitors, I was impressed but...

October 21, 2022

Nearly Two-Thirds of the World Was Glued to Liturgy

Jonathan Aigner points out that some 4 billion people watched the funeral of Queen Elizabeth...

October 21, 2022

DISCUSS: What Will Future Generations Think of Us?

Looking back, we see that in many ways our ancestors were "deplorable"--in their acceptance of...

October 20, 2022

A Civilization Racing Backwards

What if our civilization is devolving instead of evolving? That is, what if we Westerners...

October 19, 2022

Back to Animism

The latest rage among those who are "spiritual but not religious" is animism. That is...

October 18, 2022

The Hippocratic Oath vs. the New Medical Oaths

From time immemorial, physicians have sworn to "do no harm." Of course, they have also...

October 17, 2022

Sterilizing Children

"Gender affirming care" for children who want to be a different sex is a defining...

October 14, 2022

Salvation by Dying in Battle

In support of Vladimir Putin's order to mobilize Russians for the war in Ukraine, the...

October 14, 2022

DISCUSS: Hypocrisy as Campaign Issue

Herschel Walker, the Republican running for the Senate in Georgia, staked out a "no exceptions"...

October 13, 2022

Dostoevsky and the Antichrist (part 2)

What makes "Antichrist," according to a passage from Dostoevsky's "The Idiot," is when the church...

October 12, 2022

Dostoevsky on the Antichrist (part 1)

Dostoevsky's great novel "The Idiot," with its absorbing portrait of a "completely beautiful human being,"...

October 11, 2022

Anti-Protestantism

Historian Philip Jenkins notes says that there has been a great deal of scholarship about...

October 10, 2022

Overturning Roe Has Saved Thousands of Lives

The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade might seem to be a pyrrhic victory...

October 07, 2022

“Everybody Worships”

A book on "wellness" as a new religion quotes the late contemporary novelist David Foster...

October 07, 2022

DISCUSS: Who Is the Rightful Home Run Champ?

On Tuesday, Aaron Judge hit 62 home runs, breaking Roger Maris's American League record of...

October 06, 2022

“Religion Stands on Tip-toe in Our Land”

Projections that Christianity will dwindle in America call to mind George Herbert's poem "Church Militant,"...

October 05, 2022

“Ridicule Is Man’s Most Potent Weapon”

Saul Alinsky's rule for radicals #5 is "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." Today it...

October 04, 2022

How Lutheranism Shaped the “Nordic System”

A great deal of scholarship ties the Scandinavian combination of free market capitalism with a...

October 03, 2022

“Lutheran Socialism”?

The Nordic political and economic system is sometimes called "Lutheran socialism." But, despite what American...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

A Lutheran Critique of National Conservatism

Lutheran political scientist James R. Rogers criticizes National Conservatism in terms of Luther's doctrine of...

September 30, 2022

DISCUSS: The GOP’s New Contract with America

Republicans hope to unite their party, appeal to voters, and sweep to victory in the...