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April 2018

April 23, 2018

California to Ban Books? Or Just Christian Speech?

The California State Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw "the sale or lease...

April 23, 2018

Free Health Care, Free College, Legal Pot, & Reparations for Slavery

A high-level meeting of big donors, Democratic party officials, and politicians came up with three...

April 20, 2018

An Ancient Description of the Early Christians

An article at Aleteia entitled This is How Christians Lived in the 2nd Century by...

April 20, 2018

Millennials Don’t Know About Extermination Camps

In 1961, the Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was put on trial for his role in...

April 19, 2018

Two Years in Prison for “Acting on His Religion”

A Mennonite pastor has just been released after spending two years in prison--the full term...

April 19, 2018

The Other School Walkout You Never Heard of

You no doubt heard about the nation-wide school walkouts on March 14 and April 20...

April 18, 2018

Peter Berger on the New Class Struggle in American Religion

Thirty-seven years ago, I stumbled upon an article by Peter Berger, "The Class Struggle in...

April 18, 2018

Being Moral vs. Moralizing

John Daniel Davidson makes a useful distinction between "being moral" and "moralizing." From his article...

April 17, 2018

Status and Belief

Christians talk a great deal about reaching the culture and influencing the culture. But Christians...

April 17, 2018

Getting Beyond Nostalgia for Reagan or for the New Deal

The Republican agenda has long been shaped by its nostalgia for Ronald Reagan. The Democratic...

April 16, 2018

Backpage Knew It Was Trafficking Children for Sex

The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, which passed with an overwhelming bi-partisan majority, was signed into...

April 16, 2018

U.S. Attacks Syria–Has Trump Become a Neoconservative?

U.S. forces fired over 100 cruise missiles at Syria in retaliation against President Bashar al-Assad's...

April 13, 2018

How Social Media Is Designed Around Sin

Trevor Sutton, my co-author of Authentic Christianity, has written a fascinating article entitled Social Media...

April 13, 2018

Churches’ Contempt for Men

Matthew Cochran, a Concordia Theological Seminary lay graduate who blogs at 96th Thesis has a...

April 12, 2018

“Beyond Anything I’ve Seen Before from Modern Lutheran Writers”: A Review of Our New Book

I hate promoting myself, but I have to share with you this review of my...

April 12, 2018

How You Are Being Psychologically Profiled by Your “Likes”

Facebook is getting hit hard in the fallout over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which...

April 11, 2018

How Can Churches Retain Their Youth?

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has sponsored two research projects on the retention of young...

April 11, 2018

In 10 Years, the National Debt Will Be 96% of the Gross Domestic Product

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has run the numbers, finding, as expected, that the...

April 10, 2018

“The Pleasure of Boredom”

Boredom has been described as one of the major spiritual problems of our time. The...

April 10, 2018

Google Comes to Pryor, Oklahoma

Since retiring to a small Oklahoma town, such as the one I grew up in,...

April 09, 2018

Not the Empty Tomb, but the Risen Christ

The true sign of the Resurrection is not the Empty Tomb, as we often say. ...

April 09, 2018

China’s Weapons in the Trade War

President Trump recently slapped $50 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese goods. Whereupon China slapped...

April 06, 2018

A Close Reading of Leonardo’s “The Last Supper”

One of the most famous religious paintings is Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" (1495-1498). ...

April 06, 2018

China’s High-Tech Plan to Control Its Citizens Completely

It is now technologically possible for a government to monitor and control its citizens as...

April 05, 2018

Back to the U.S.A.

We leave Australia early Thursday morning for our 17 hour flight back to the U.S.A. ...

April 05, 2018

The Vocation of a Christian Police Officer

As controversies roil over police shootings, such as that of Stephon Clark in Sacramento (reportedly shot...

April 04, 2018

Bach and His Bible

Is Bach Lutheran? The question is like, "Is the Pope Catholic?" OK, there may now...

April 04, 2018

Paying Terrorists with Foreign Aid Money

According to Australian journalist David Adler, the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists for attacking Israelis. Using...

April 03, 2018

Ignorance about Christianity

It isn't just that so many people today don't believe in Christianity. Often, they don't...

April 03, 2018

Law Makes Websites Liable for Sex Trafficking

Congress has passed a law holding websites criminally liable if they are used for sex...