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March 2018

March 13, 2018

Back to the Gilded Age

Celebrity business titans! Immigration controversy! Booming cities and dying rural areas! Yellow journalism! Political chaos! ...

March 11, 2018

Grandparenthood, Again

Our daughter here in Australia had her baby! In the photo you can see John,...

March 11, 2018

Politics as Self-Expression

Politics has become self-expression. Concepts are not either true or false, but pure or impure. ...

March 09, 2018

Cleansing the Temples

The Gospel reading for last Sunday was about Jesus cleansing the Temple. The sermon we...

March 09, 2018

The News that Spreads Most Is False, Negative, and Surprising

A major study of how information spreads online has found that information that is false...

March 08, 2018

Luther’s Musical Innovations

Christianity Today's online Christian History feature has a special section on Martin Luther this month. It...

March 08, 2018

The Biggest Religious Liberty Issue: Eagle Feathers

Three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that the government could...

March 07, 2018

Intersectionality as Religion

To understand today's leftists--including why they shut down free speech on university campuses--you need to...

March 07, 2018

Surrogacy for Money

After getting married, the next step for most couples is having children. Now that we have...

March 06, 2018

Extremely Early Testimonies to the Deity of Christ

The conventional wisdom among liberal theologians and higher critics of the Bible is that the...

March 06, 2018

Return to a Demand-Side Economy

Ronald Reagan promoted a "supply-side economy," focusing on increasing the supply of goods and services,...

March 05, 2018

Vocation and Self-Defense

In the current debates over gun ownership and self-defense, we would do well to consider...

March 05, 2018

All Politics Is National

"All politics is local." According to that maxim, both parties catered to local issues and...

March 02, 2018

Church Members Who Believe in Abortion, by Denomination

Lots of church members believe in abortion. That's understandable, I suppose, since lots of churches...

March 02, 2018

Trump Imposes Tariffs

President Trump announced that he will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum, sending the...

March 01, 2018

The Pope’s Efforts to Reverse Birth Control Ban

It appears that Pope Francis is trying to reverse the Catholic Church's unpopular and widely-ignored...

March 01, 2018

Trump vs. NRA

President Trump defied the National Rifle Association and opponents of gun control, urging Republican congressmen...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

A Wolf, a Sheep, and Food that Digests Us

"A wolf in sheep's clothing" is someone who seems nice on the outside, like a...

February 28, 2018

The Vegemite President

I came across a British site that tossed off a word that I didn't know. ...

February 27, 2018

Catholic, Lutheran, & Reformed Approaches to the Poor

I've been reading a ground-breaking new book in the field of the sociology of religion...

February 27, 2018

Everybody Is Exhausted

Horrible crimes, embarrassing scandals, internecine political warfare, one crazy thing after another. . . .Does...

February 26, 2018

We’re On Our Way to Australia

Today we leave for Australia, where we will be through the month of March, coming...

February 26, 2018

The Attack on Christianity from the Right

Most of us are familiar with the attacks of Christianity from the Left. There are...

February 23, 2018

When Christians Change Churches, Where Do They Go?

One out of six American Christians changed religious affiliation over a four year period. Where...

February 23, 2018

Court Rules in Favor of Another Judge Who Won’t Do Gay Weddings

We have been following the case of Judge Ruth Neely, a Wyoming magistrate who lost...

February 22, 2018

Graham’s Passing as the End of an Era

In addition to being the supreme evangelist, Billy Graham did much to establish evangelicalism as...

February 22, 2018

The Problem of Strippers at Funerals

In China, a large attendance at a funeral is a way to honor the dead. ...

February 21, 2018

By 2050 Mind Melds Will Replace Language

In Star Trek, Mr. Spock could space his fingers on someone's head and achieve a...

February 21, 2018

Might the Russians Have Flipped the Election to Trump?

The indictment filed by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller against 13 Russians and a Kremlin-connected organization...

February 20, 2018

The Two Kingdoms Doctrine Does Not Mean Moral Relativism

Some evangelicals and other conservative Christians who support President Trump no matter what he says...