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February 2018

February 20, 2018

Hollywood’s New Rules for Sex Scenes in Light of #MeToo

Hollywood is reeling from the sexual abuse and harassment scandal that brought down producer Harvey...

February 19, 2018

The Spirit of Curling

I found myself drawn into the Winter Olympics when I watched an Austrian skier named...

February 19, 2018

Mueller Indicts 13 Russians for Interfering with the Election

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has issued indictments against 13 Russians and 3 Russian organizations for...

February 16, 2018

Culture Against Christ

Yesterday's post about how the culture is the biggest obstacle to religious freedom reminded me...

February 16, 2018

Is Print Journalism Down to Its Last 10 Years?

Do we need print on paper anymore? After all, we can download books on Kindle,...

February 15, 2018

Cultural Pressure vs. Religious Liberty

The main threat to religious liberty today is not the government. Rather, it is the...

February 15, 2018

School Shooting in Florida Kills 17

A gunman went into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and killed at least...

February 14, 2018

George Herbert’s Poems as Lenten Devotions

J. R. Arner, back in 1994, put together a daily devotional series for Lent that...

February 14, 2018

A Serious Call to Ban Pornography

Some of you may remember that in our predictions for 2018, I said that the...

February 13, 2018

The Lutheran artist, Carl Bloch

In looking for an illustration to go with yesterday's post Transfigured, I came across a...

February 13, 2018

Gentry Liberals

America's major cities are being transformed by "gentrification," as affluent white people move in, bidding...

February 12, 2018

Transfigured

Yesterday was the last and climactic Sunday of Epiphany, in which we contemplate the ultimate...

February 12, 2018

Mallory Millett’s Critique of Her Sister’s Feminism

Kate Millett, who died last year, has been called the Karl Marx--or even the Mao...

February 09, 2018

A Tribute to James Sire, Who Got Me Started

James W. Sire, the former editor of InterVarsity Press, has died at the age of...

February 09, 2018

A Budget Both Parties Can Live With?

In a rare show of bipartisan agreement, Congressional leaders of both parties agreed on a...

February 08, 2018

Spiritual but Not Religious, but actually Hindu?

Those who describe themselves as "spiritual, but not religious" may in fact be practicing a...

February 08, 2018

The Olympics & the Disenchantment of Sports

The Winter Olympics start today. Are you all fired up about that? No? The entire...

February 07, 2018

Coveting as the Root of the Other Sins

The Jewish scholar Leonard Greenspoon of Creighton University (a Catholic institution) explores the concept of "coveting" in...

February 07, 2018

Adding Heterosexuals to the LGBT Category

It's being reported that some activists want to expand the LGBT category so that it...

February 06, 2018

Pope Sells Out Persecuted Catholics to Communists?

In effect, the Pope is unifying the Catholic church in China by granting authority to...

February 06, 2018

“All Economic News Is Bad”

"All economic news is bad," said George Will, "especially good economic news, because it gives...

February 05, 2018

Why Don’t Churches Try to Reach the Biggest Demographic of the Unchurched?

My granddaughter invited a friend to church yesterday. She was nine years old and she...

February 05, 2018

Get the Memo: Democrats Support Police & Republicans Support Civil Liberties

The memo from the House Intelligence Committee on the FBI's use of the discredited Steele...

February 02, 2018

The Movie About the Apostle Paul

Yesterday we blogged about the upcoming film The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection. But that won't be...

February 02, 2018

The End of Anonymous Access to Pornography?

The pendulum is swinging against sexual permissiveness, as the reaction against sexual abuse and sexual...

February 01, 2018

The Sequel to “The Passion of the Christ”

The challenge will be in turning the Resurrection appearances of our Lord into a story....

February 01, 2018

Hypocrisy at the Grammys

The Grammy Awards last Sunday, the music industry's award show, featured the by-now familiar litany...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Catholic Exorcism Resources Are Now Available in English

The Roman Catholic Church has developed a specialty in the exorcism of demons. Though this...

January 31, 2018

The Question That Defines the Culture Wars

David French observes that the different perspectives in the culture wars hinge on the way...

January 30, 2018

And now Generation Z

Churches were told to make adjustments for Generation X. Lately, new adjustments had to be...