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March 2021

March 29, 2021

Schools to Replace Knowledge with Ideology

Our country has been torn apart by culture wars. Now we are facing education wars,...

March 26, 2021

The Human Sacrifice Deniers

Some critical theorists are denying that the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, offering evidence-free arguments, despite...

March 25, 2021

Prayer to Aztec Gods in Public Schools

A proposed "model curriculum" in ethnic studies for California public schools, has children chanting prayers...

March 24, 2021

When St. Patrick Accidentally Stabbed the King

Sean Fitzpatrick tells the rather humorous story of how St. Patrick baptized King Angus, then...

March 23, 2021

Exporting America’s New Ideology

Time was, American ideas that were exported around the world had to do with freedom...

March 22, 2021

Criticizing vs. Cancelling

Some on the left are saying that "cancel culture" doesn't really exist, that it's nothing...

March 19, 2021

The Politics of the New American Welfare State

The $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill amounts to the largest government social program since the...

March 18, 2021

The Differences between Progressives and Conservatives

Progressives look at problems in terms of systems and equality, whereas Conservatives stress personal responsibility...

March 17, 2021

The St. Patrick of the Germans

St. Patrick's Day reminds us that Europeans too were brought to Christianity by missionaries. St....

March 16, 2021

Vaccines, Vocation, and Competitive Agency

Many American Christians lack the neighbor-centered ethic and the understanding that God works through other...

March 15, 2021

Why Won’t Evangelicals Get the Vaccine?

Evangelicals have the highest rate of hesitancy to get the COVID vaccine than any other...

March 12, 2021

The Equality Act Takes Away Religious Exemptions

The Equality Act, which just passed the House and goes to the Senate, extends the...

March 11, 2021

Where the Left and the Right Agree

In our time of political and cultural polarization, we should reflect on some current and...

March 10, 2021

Evil Suffering vs. Blessed Suffering

There is a suffering that is evil, which Christians must battle with all their might. ...

March 09, 2021

Where Relativism Survives

Moral relativism has given way to a new absolutism, in which those who disagree with...

March 08, 2021

The Ten Commandments of Trumpism

The conservative movement and the Republican Party are still in thrall to Donald Trump. We...

March 05, 2021

Foucault’s Philosophy of Power, Sex, and Death

Michel Foucault, a French philosopher who died from AIDS in 1984, is the most-cited scholar...

March 04, 2021

What to Do About the Backlash Against Evangelicals

When evangelicalism was popular, virtually all denominations tried to emulate it, resulting in a loss...

March 03, 2021

Why Evangelicals Are So Disliked, Part II

A major reason Evangelicals have become so disliked today is politics; specifically, their high level...

March 02, 2021

Why Evangelicals Are So Disliked, Part I

Christians today are hated not just for following Jesus--as He said they would be--but also...

March 01, 2021

Evangelicals as “the Other”

A prominent social scientist says that Evangelicals are so repugnant to the social elite that...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

A Disease That Becomes a Human Being at Birth

Many politicians who are strong advocates for abortion are Catholic or members of other pro-life...

February 25, 2021

The Cross of Christ Includes Our Sufferings Too

The Bible says much about crosses: Christ's cross and the crosses that we bear. And...

February 24, 2021

The Word, the Holy Spirit, and Failure

The Swedish Lutheran bishop and novelist Bo Giertz cites three things that help us to...

February 23, 2021

The African Bonhoeffer

John Ehrett, seeing the problems with the dominant political theologies, sees a way forward in...

February 22, 2021

Good News about Covid-19

The number of COVID-19 infections has been dropping rapidly, and the vaccines are working far...

February 19, 2021

Fighting Abortion from the Demand Side

Pro-lifers often concentrate on the supply side of abortion, trying to make the procedure less...

February 18, 2021

Government by Corporation

A business corporation has a hierarchical leadership that exercises authority and applies policy. Thus, it...

February 17, 2021

An Evangelical Discovers the Need for Lent & Confession

A minister calls for his fellow evangelicals to recover the disciplines of Lent and the...

February 16, 2021

Outlawing Prayer for the LGBTQ

An Australian law against "conversion therapy"--defined as practices that attempt to change same-sex attraction and...