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June 2018

June 06, 2018

Work as Religion

For many people, work is their religion. Their work gives meaning to their lives, establishes...

June 06, 2018

But the Disinvited Eagles Always Stood for the National Anthem!

President Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from the traditional White House reception for SuperBowl champions. ...

June 05, 2018

Sex Offenders Told Not to Confess Their Sin

Despite the "seal of confession," priests in the Church of England are being required to...

June 05, 2018

Religious Objections to Gay Marriage “Are Protected Views”

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jack Phillips, the Christian baker in Colorado who...

June 04, 2018

Christianity without Redemption or Forgiveness

We have blogged about how intersectionality--the fellowship of all of the oppressed under the unity...

June 03, 2018

A New Crowd-based Religion

Religion has its beliefs, but it also has a social dimension, with governance, organization, finance,...

June 01, 2018

Marcionites Then and Now

Fellow Patheos blogger Tom Hobson, a Presbyterian pastor with a doctorate from Concordia Seminary, has...

June 01, 2018

Star Wars Sex

Brian Truitt of USA Today complains that there isn't any sex in the Star Wars universe...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Communal Reading in the Ancient World & the Early Church

In the ancient world, people read out loud, even when they were by themselves. Thus,...

May 31, 2018

Designing Rituals for Secularists

Human beings seem to have a need for rituals at some level. Religions are traditionally...

May 30, 2018

Different Ways of Classifying Christians

Carl Trueman, in the course of his post If Only Francis Were Luther that we blogged...

May 30, 2018

We Are No Longer Reproducing Ourselves

The fertility rate in the United States has taken a nose-dive, dropping to 1.76 births...

May 29, 2018

Is Pope Francis Like Luther?

A number of observers are comparing Pope Francis to Martin Luther. Both are reformers of...

May 29, 2018

What Happens When Mind, Soul, & Body Go in Different Directions

Love in the Ruins (1972) is a dark, comic, disturbing, and yet profoundly Christian novel...

May 28, 2018

Memory Day

Memorial Day should include memories. The holiday was established specifically to remember those who died defending...

May 28, 2018

“The Anticipated Davidic Figure” in the Psalms

My son-in-law Adam Hensley, Old Testament Lecturer at Australian Lutheran College, has just published his book Covenant...

May 26, 2018

Bloody Ireland

Ireland once saved civilization, keeping Christianity and the classical tradition alive, during the barbarian invasions...

May 25, 2018

Will the New Critics of Liberal Democracy Turn Against Religious Liberty?

A number of conservative thinkers, in trying to address the political and cultural problems of...

May 24, 2018

Evangelicals’ Realpolitik

Evangelicals who support Donald Trump are receiving harsh criticism, both from other Christians and...

May 23, 2018

A Bill to Amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Leading Democrats in the Senate have introduced a bill that would amend the Religious Freedom...

May 23, 2018

What Trump’s Blow to Planned Parenthood Means and What It Doesn’t

President Trump is bringing back a Reagan-era rule that would prevent federal "family planning" money...

May 22, 2018

“The Evangelical Church” as the “Catholic Church Purged of Certain Heresies & Abuses”

I quite randomly stumbled upon this quotation from Lutheran theologian Hermann Sasse*, the anti-Nazi activist...

May 22, 2018

Why Would a High School Kid Shoot His Classmates?

We had yet another high school shooting, with 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis in Santa Fe, Texas, prowling...

May 21, 2018

The Lord and Giver of Life

Yesterday was another major holy-day: Pentecost, fifty days after the resurrection of Christ and ten...

May 18, 2018

Should We Conform to Reality, or Should Reality Conform to Us?

In a review of Jonah Goldberg's The Suicide of the West in The Federalist, John...

May 18, 2018

Does Vocation Allow a Spy to Employ Sex as an Espionage Tactic?

In our recent post, The Vocation of a Spy, we discussed whether espionage is a...

May 17, 2018

Are Evangelicals Now Dwindling Like Mainline Liberals?

According to a new study, the number of white evangelicals is dropping precipitously, to the...

May 17, 2018

Defending Child-Killing in the Name of Cultural Relativism

In the jungles of Brazil, some tribes kill children who are disabled, who were born...

May 16, 2018

Tom Wolfe, the Literary Scourge of Progressives, Dies

Tom Wolfe, 88, has died. The pioneer of "New Journalism," which uses fictional techniques--an interior point...

May 16, 2018

The Abdication of the Medical Profession

The medical profession enjoys some of the highest level of respect in the country, and...