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February 2020

February 07, 2020

First Throwing Out Religion, Then Throwing Out Western Civilization

First academia threw out religion. But then religion was replaced with "Western Civilization" as the...

February 06, 2020

Re-Electing Trump

The Democratic effort to impeach President Trump has failed, giving him his highest approval ratings...

February 05, 2020

Evangelicals’ Birth Rate Is Now Nearly as Low as That of Secularists

Evangelicals used to have significantly more children than secularist families. This is no longer the...

February 04, 2020

The Super Bowl Commercial That Fox Refused to Air

You saw the Super Bowl ads. But you didn't see this one. Pro-choicers, whose control...

February 03, 2020

The Rapper Flame Becomes a Lutheran

Christian hip-hop artist Flame (Marcus Gray) has announced that he has become a Lutheran and...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Martin Luther on the Coronavirus

Epidemics like the coronavirus raise many moral questions. Should I run away? Stay and help?...

January 30, 2020

What God Are We Trying to Be?

We often note how human beings "play God" and, following the Serpent's temptation (Gen. 3:5),...

January 29, 2020

The Wolf That Devours Everything, and Then Devours Itself

The epigraph of my new book, "Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture," is...

January 28, 2020

My New Book on Secularism

My new book from Crossway has been released. It's entitled "Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary...

January 27, 2020

Impeachment & the Renaissance

The impeachment proceedings seem like a low point in American politics. Both sides can agree...

January 24, 2020

Dying of Whiteness

The medical journal Lancet has published a positive review of a book that associates the...

January 23, 2020

Church Growth by Kicking Out Old People

A vital, growing church has lots of young families. A church in Minnesota wants to...

January 22, 2020

The movie "1917" appears to have been photographed in one long continuous shot, without the...

January 21, 2020

The Reformation and Science

As scholars have been demonstrating, Christianity has played a major role in the rise of...

January 20, 2020

Is God’s Power Intrinsically Oppressive?

If power and privilege are always oppressive, as postmodern critical theorists maintain, then God, whose...

January 17, 2020

The Case for Having Children

In discussing the drop in the fertility rate in the affluent, well-educated demographic, Joy Pullman...

January 16, 2020

The Jewish Queen of Rome

Acts 25-26 tells of Paul's appearance before Agrippa, the king of Judaea, and his sister...

January 15, 2020

The Psychology of Hate

"Hate" has become another all-purpose term of opprobrium, like "Nazi." If you oppose someone for...

January 14, 2020

The Leading Cause of Death

The leading cause of death throughout the world in 2019 was not heart disease or...

January 13, 2020

The Managerial Elite

Our new class system is not based on the socio-economic hierarchies of upper, middle, and...

January 10, 2020

Millennials Are Staying in Church if They Went as Children–Unless They Marry Outside the Faith

Millennials are increasingly leaving the church and, unlike other generations, they are not coming back...

January 09, 2020

Luther’s Remedy for Self-Absorption

Peter Burfeind writes about the connection between self-love and melancholy, tracing today's separation between the...

January 08, 2020

Robot Pastors

Speculation has arisen about the possibility of robots serving as ministers. Already robots have been...

January 07, 2020

Methodists Will Send Their Conservative Congregations Away

The United Methodist Church has arrived at an agreement that will accept same-sex marriage and...

January 06, 2020

The Grim Reaper

The lethal drone known as the Reaper that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani may have ignited...

January 03, 2020

Pope says, if you try to convert an unbeliever, you are “not a disciple of Jesus”

Pope Francis has said that Christians should not try to "convince" non-Christians to change their...

January 02, 2020

The Mutuality Between Mothers and Their Developing Babies

Medical science is learning more and more about pregnancy and fetal development. We now know...

January 01, 2020

Your Predictions for 2020

The custom on this blog on New Year's Day is for readers to predict what...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

Checking the Predictions for 2019

We celebrate New Years' Eve by staying up past midnight, singing Auld Lang Syne, and checking our...

December 30, 2019