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August 2018

August 15, 2018

How Pervasive Is the Prosperity Gospel?

One of the most prominent heresies of contemporary Christianity is the prosperity gospel, which teaches...

August 14, 2018

The Implosion of the Church Growth Movement?

Willow Creek is imploding, due primarily to a #MeToo sex scandal involving its influential celebrity...

August 13, 2018

Muslims and the Democrats

We have blogged about the curious embrace of Muslims by the hard left, despite their...

August 10, 2018

What Pastors Like, Think They’re Good At, & Find Frustrating,

Barna Research has conducted a major study of Protestant pastors and how they are doing...

August 09, 2018

What China Is Doing to Religion

It's one thing for a government to ban religion and to persecute religion. That's what...

August 08, 2018

How Long Does It Take to Read the Bible?

My post about the One Hour Bible, an edition of highlights designed to be read...

August 07, 2018

Changing Church Teaching on Capital Punishment

Pope Francis has changed the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on capital punishment. The...

August 06, 2018

The Paris Statement on European Culture

Last year a group of European conservative intellectuals (including Roger Scruton) met in Paris in...

August 03, 2018

The Human Face & the Face of God

Have you noticed in a bookstore how so many book covers today depict a character's...

August 02, 2018

The World Does Need More Cowboys

The University of Wyoming has put out an advertising initiative with the slogan "The World...

August 01, 2018

Is Religious Liberty for Religions or Individuals?

One of the participants in the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom was Callista Gingrich (wife...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

What about “Sheep-Stealing”?

Our recent post about proselytizing has gotten me thinking about "sheep-stealing." One kind of proselytizing...

July 31, 2018

The Potomac Declaration on Religious Freedom

The Trump administration on July 24-26 convened a major diplomatic symposium on religious freedom. Eighty...

July 30, 2018

In Defense of Proselytizing

Fellow Patheos blogger Mark Driscoll has written a long and thoughtful post on the teaching...

July 30, 2018

What Does It Mean to be “Conservative”?

Sir Roger Scruton is a British philosopher who has written perceptively on a wide range...

July 27, 2018

The One Hour Bible

The Bible is a really good book, most people would agree, but who has...

July 27, 2018

Why Banning Straws Will Not Save the Oceans

The latest cause is banning plastic straws, which are said to pollute the oceans. So...

July 26, 2018

Saint G. K. Chesterton?

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a truly great Christian author. He was a Christian apologist who...

July 26, 2018

Waiting for Babies to Choose Their Gender for Themselves

Some parents refuse to take their children to church so that they can choose their...

July 25, 2018

Confession and Absolution

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has just issued a major study of the doctrine and...

July 25, 2018

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

Historian Andrew J. Bacevich warns us against slipping into "the paranoid style in American politics." ...

July 24, 2018

Orwellian Abortion Signs

I've been posting about the relevance of George Orwell's novel 1984 to today and how...

July 24, 2018

Playing Politics

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has become a by-word among conservatives for her extreme...

July 23, 2018

When Poland Was Lutheran

Poland may be the world's most Catholic country. But at the time of the Reformation,...

July 23, 2018

The Russian Spy Who Infiltrated U.S. Political and Religious conservatives

The FBI has arrested a 29-year-old Russian woman named Maria Butina, accusing her of being...

July 20, 2018

Benevolence vs. Fundamentalism

We blogged about Dan Hitchens' article on politicians who parade their Catholic identity while also...

July 20, 2018

Dumb Things Pro-Abortionists Say

Abortion cannot really be defended by appeals to morality or logic. So pro-abortion arguments are...

July 19, 2018

To Mock Christianity Is to Mock Women, Blacks, and Immigrants

Christianity is widely mocked and belittled by our cultural elite, which seem to enjoy citing...

July 19, 2018

The Replication Crisis in Science

According to the scientific method, experimental results need to be replicable. That is, for a...

July 18, 2018

What Can We Think of Trump’s Summit with Putin?

After shredding NATO and the Western alliance, President Trump staged what looked to be a...