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May 2019

May 07, 2019

Why Are Americans So Stressed Out?

Americans' booming economy and unparalleled affluence are the envy of the world. Our entertainment technology...

May 06, 2019

T. S. Eliot Predicts Today

Ross Douthat says that our Notre Dame Cathedral--an edifice constructed by thousands of creative people...

May 03, 2019

The Golden-Mouthed

We Protestants don't go by patron saints, but if there were to be a patron...

May 02, 2019

Dehumanizing Christians

Whom you wish to hurt, you first must dehumanize. Thinking of some people as less...

May 01, 2019

Rebooting Conservatism

"There is no returning to the pre-Trump conservative consensus that collapsed in 2016." So concludes...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

“Putting the ‘Fun’ in Funerals”

The impending demise of us Baby Boomers will soon mean a boom in deaths. And...

April 29, 2019

Decadence

A piece of fruit is green at first, but after awhile it ripens, reaching its...

April 26, 2019

The Democratic Presidential Candidates

All the Democrats have to do to defeat Donald Trump is to hold onto the...

April 25, 2019

“The Division of Labor Is the Meaning of Life”

In the division of labor, different people do different kinds of work for each other,...

April 24, 2019

“Anti-Christianism”

There is anti-semitism. There is Islamophobia. A leader of Coptic Christianity, responding to the Sri...

April 23, 2019

Digital Bible Reading

First the Bible was read from long, continuous hand-written scrolls, one for each book. Then...

April 22, 2019

Notre Dame and the Two Kinds of Secularism

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is iconic for lots of reasons. Modernism began, according to...

April 21, 2019

He is Risen, Indeed!

Lucas Cranach the Younger, "The Resurrection of Christ," Public Domain,

April 19, 2019

The Pietà and the Love of Christ

Michelangelo's depiction of Mary holding the body of her dead Son, "The Pietà," is one...

April 18, 2019

The Spiritual as Conveyed by the Material

On this Maundy Thursday, when Christ instituted the Sacrament of His Body and Blood, it's...

April 17, 2019

Baptism as the Point of No Return

Missionary Nik Ripken has written a moving account of Christians undergoing persecution in Muslim lands,...

April 16, 2019

“Moral Relativism Meets Privilege Theory”

In Great Britain, the LGBT+ ideology has free rein. When a special curriculum promoting that...

April 15, 2019

Our Presence in the Events of Holy Week

The events commemorated in Holy Week, which began yesterday, are not just ancient history. We...

April 12, 2019

Shooting Down Artillery Shells

Did you know that our military has the capability of shooting down artillery shells? Even...

April 11, 2019

Seeing a Black Hole

We used to think that science is reductionistic, that once we have a "scientific" explanation...

April 10, 2019

Christian Realism

Can Christians build a perfect society on earth? If not, does that mean that we...

April 09, 2019

Eastern vs. Western Christianity on Church & State

One of the differences in Western Christianity, in both its Catholic and Protestant versions, and...

April 08, 2019

Tolkien the Television Series

Amazon Prime is producing a television series based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth,...

April 06, 2019

Happy Cranach Day!

April 6 is the Day of Commemoration in the Lutheran calendar for artists Lucas Cranach...

April 05, 2019

Where the Left Got Its Ideas about Oppression, Sex, & Gender

Knud Skov, a confessional Lutheran from Denmark, sent me an essay that he had written...

April 04, 2019

How the Left Can Help You Be Religious

Writer and radio host Dennis Prager has written a hilarious--but also dead serious--essay entitled How the...

April 03, 2019

We’re Not Supposed to Have a Democracy

The United States of America is not a democracy. And it was never supposed to...

April 02, 2019

“Vocation: How God Provides for Us”

The magazine Interest Time has a special issue on vocation. The lead article "Vocation: How God...

April 01, 2019

“In My Hour of Darkness”

I heard Gram Parsons' song "In My Hour of Darkness" on the radio the other day...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

Europe’s Plan to Destroy the Internet

The European Union has passed a new copyright law that has the potential to fundamentally...