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September 2021

September 13, 2021

The Vaccine Mandate & Ruling by Decree

President Biden's vaccine mandate raises enormous constitutional problems. But his supporters don't seem to care,...

September 10, 2021

The Persecuted Pastor Becomes a Bishop

Juhana Pohjola, who will be tried for his part in the publication of a tract...

September 09, 2021

“The Powers of Church and Civil Government Must Not Be Mixed”

A statement by confessional Lutherans worldwide protesting the prosecution of Juhana Pohjola and Päivi Räsänen...

September 08, 2021

Post-America

In the aftermath of the Afghanistan debacle, many observers are seeing the end of America's...

September 07, 2021

A Protestant Theology of the Body

We have problems coming to terms with our bodies. This is true of both secularists...

September 06, 2021

Vocation as Life Organized around the Forgiveness of Sins

The Swedish theologian Einar Billing stresses how the doctrine of vocation is related to the...

September 03, 2021

Darwin’s Social Darwinism

I have heard that "social Darwinism" was the invention of Herbert Spencer, 19th century Robber...

September 02, 2021

The Metaverse

The next revolutionary technology that investors and the big tech companies are trying to develop...

September 01, 2021

Another Social Science Miss: Non-Members Still Go to Church

A recent Gallup poll found that church membership in the United States has fallen to...

August 2021

August 31, 2021

One out of Five Families Is Homeschooling

Homeschooling has shot up dramatically over the last two years, to the point that today...

August 30, 2021

We Provided the Taliban with Kill Lists, & Other Outrages

Our government gave the Taliban the names of American citizens and Afghans who helped us....

August 27, 2021

When the Government Told Churches What Language to Speak

One example of governments using the force of law to regulate the internal practices of...

August 26, 2021

Libertine Conservatives

There are social conservatives, free-market conservatives, and neo-conservatives. Now another kind of conservatives has emerged,...

August 25, 2021

Solomon on Vocation

The Book of Ecclesiastes, while making us face up to the "vanity" of life "under...

August 24, 2021

Schism among the Evangelicals?

Some observers are seeing a schism developing among evangelicals, mainly for political and cultural reasons....

August 23, 2021

A Critical Race Theory Take on Afghanistan

An article applies critical race theory to the war in Afghanistan and the victory of...

August 20, 2021

Where the Battle Is Raging

Robert Benne quotes Luther on the necessity of Christian confession at the points where the...

August 19, 2021

Vaccine Hesitancy

The biggest categories of the vaccine hesitant are not evangelicals but Nones, not Trump supporters...

August 18, 2021

Alternatives in Afghanistan

There were alternatives to the chaotic pullout from Afghanistan: an orderly retreat, in which the...

August 17, 2021

“Multi-Species Families”

Having pets is a good thing, bringing out valuable emotions and instincts in human beings....

August 16, 2021

Losing Another War

History is repeating itself as the Fall of Saigon is being replicated in the Fall...

August 13, 2021

A Religion That Tried Too Hard to Blend into the Culture

A historian writes about the attempt of some Buddhists in the Soviet Union to change...

August 12, 2021

A Post-Christian Version of a Christian Classic

In my opinion, informed by decades of literary study, one of the greatest stories in...

August 11, 2021

The Advantage of Using Hymnals

Worshipping with a hymnal has many advantages over projecting praise songs over a screen. And...

August 10, 2021

Infrastructure Bill Mandates Alcohol Monitoring in New Cars

The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill includes a provision requiring all new car makers to...

August 09, 2021

The Eviction Moratorium Fiasco

The eviction moratorium fiasco exemplifies much that is bad and incompetent about our government.

August 06, 2021

Golden Anniversary

On August 7, 2021, Jackie and I will have been married 50 years. We did...

August 05, 2021

Prospects for a Renaissance

A Harvard history professor sees parallels between our cultural problems and those of the 14th...

August 04, 2021

When Medical Schools Can’t Teach Biology

Woke culture is now going beyond the humanities and the social sciences to the hard...

August 03, 2021

Sports Are Now Depressing

Sports have become depressing. Everywhere I look--the Olympics, professional sports, college athletics--I see scandal, controversy,...