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May 2026

May 01, 2026

The Heresies of Today’s Technology

The Vatican's International Theological Commission has identified two specific heresies associated with many of the...

April 2026

April 30, 2026

Lutheran Artist (& Cranach Reader) Wins National Honor

[free post] Saddlemaker and leather artist Cary Schwarz--a longtime member of the Cranach blog community--has...

April 29, 2026

AI Detectors

As AI-generated content proliferates, from homework assignments to professional publications, another technology has emerged: AI...

April 28, 2026

Lost Civilization

Much of our civilization--our ways of thinking, our art, our literature, our political order--has been...

April 27, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 4/27/26

Another assassination attempt against the president. Preventing fellow-citizens from being represented. And UK outlaws tobacco...

April 24, 2026

The Dignity of the Work AI Is Supposed to Liberate Us From

Some people are claiming that AI will free us from the drudgery that constitutes much...

April 23, 2026

From Matthew the Tax Collector to Simon the Zealot

Paul Thompson points out that "Jesus’s 'church' combined a Zealot committed to the overthrow of...

April 22, 2026

Why a Nonbeliever Scorns Liberal Theology

Why do liberal theologies, designed to appeal to the "modern mind," gain so little traction...

April 21, 2026

What Matters to Cultural Conservatives

[FREE POST] My review of Timothy Goeglein's new book "What Really Matters," in which I...

April 20, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 4/20/26

Evidence young men really are returning to church. Why public school boards are so liberal. And...

April 17, 2026

We Just Flew to the Moon!

Just in case you didn't notice, we just flew to the moon! After over 50...

April 17, 2026

DISCUSS: Trump as the Messiah

President Trump put up a meme on social media depicting himself as Jesus. The Bible...

April 16, 2026

OpenAI’s Proposed “Industrial Policy”

OpenAI has put out a proposal for an "Industrial Policy"--an alliance between government and the...

April 15, 2026

A World Without Work?

Some are predicting that AI will take over all white collar jobs and robots will...

April 14, 2026

The Earliest Hymn with Its Ancient Greek Music

The Oxyrhynchus Hymn from the 200's A.D. is "the earliest known manuscript of a Christian Greek hymn to...

April 13, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 4/13/26

Bible sales are soaring. Big study finds that "gender reassignment" wrecks mental health. And the...

April 10, 2026

Thoughts from the Easter Vigil

Did your church celebrate the Easter Vigil? It's still relatively new to me, but I...

April 09, 2026

The Thief Who, Like Us, Was Crucified with Christ

Over Holy Week, I came across two reflections on the thieves who were crucified with...

April 08, 2026

A Book on Education in Luther’s Wittenberg

FREE POST: Right by St. Mary's Church, "the Mother Church of the Reformation," is the...

April 07, 2026

Progressive Christianity Tries for a Comeback

Despite the collapse of liberal churches, there seems to be an effort to bring back...

April 06, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 4/6/26

The war and its financial consequences. Supreme Court rules states can't ban conversion therapy. And cloning...

April 05, 2026

“He is not here, for he has risen, as he said.”

A FREE POST: This photo is reportedly from inside Christ's tomb, showing the actual place...

April 03, 2026

His Bleeding Love

A notable Lenten hymn is "Not All the Blood of Beasts" by Isaac Watts, a...

April 02, 2026

Is Communion for the Perfect or for Sinners?

Is Holy Communion "a prize for the perfect" or "a powerful medicine and nourishment for...

April 01, 2026

The Meditations of Valerius

I've been reading Valerius Herberger's "The Mysteries of Christ in the Book of Exodus," which...

March 2026

March 31, 2026

Valerius, One of the Greatest Devotional Writers

I stumbled across the devotional commentary on Exodus by Valerius Herberger. I found it to...

March 30, 2026

Holy Week Miscellany, 2026

Finnish Lutherans CONVICTED for booklet on the Bible & homosexuality. Americans' opinions about AI. And...

March 27, 2026

The “Post-Secular” Philosopher Jürgen Habermas Has Died

The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas , who had been arguing for a "post-secular" society, died...

March 27, 2026

DISCUSS: Christian Zionism and Christian Nationalism

Dispensationalism is largely responsible for giving us today's Christian Zionism. Post-millennialism is largely responsible for...

March 26, 2026

TESCREAL: The Ideology of the Tech Titans

A new ideology has arisen in the tech world called TESCREAL, a "bundle" of Transhumanism,...