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January 2018

January 30, 2018

Liveblog Trump’s State of the Union Address Tonight

President Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address tonight at 9:00 p.m....

January 29, 2018

Postliberal Theology

George Lindbeck has died at the age of 94. The Lutheran (ELCA) theologian and...

January 29, 2018

Trump’s Immigration Reform

President Trump has released his new proposal for immigration reform. Right now, one side attacks it...

January 26, 2018

Why Secularists Have Problems with Forgiveness

There is currently no real concept for forgiveness in the secular world, no mechanism for...

January 26, 2018

Trump’s Testimony Under Oath

President Trump has said that he is willing to testify under oath in Special Counsel...

January 25, 2018

How Should Churches Respond to the New Findings about American Religion?

In our recent post "Only Moderate Religion Is On the Decline," we reported on new research...

January 25, 2018

Investigating the Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Trump administration is being investigated by the FBI. But now the FBI is also...

January 24, 2018

Technology, Sex, & Totalitarianism

Augusto Del Noce was an Italian thinker from back in the 1960s who predicted much...

January 24, 2018

Who Gets the New Amazon & Apple Campuses?

Two of the biggest tech companies, Apple and Amazon, are planning new "campuses," planning to...

January 23, 2018

“Only Moderate Religion Is On the Decline”

We keep hearing statistics about religious decline in America. But new research has shot that...

January 23, 2018

The Secularist Case Against Abortion

You don't have to be a Christian to be pro-life. You don't have to be...

January 22, 2018

Has Trump Come Through for Pro-Lifers & Evangelicals?

President Trump won the support of most evangelicals and other pro-lifers, some of whom had...

January 22, 2018

Federal Government Shuts Down

The federal government shut down on Saturday when its funding expired, due to the Senate...

January 19, 2018

An Interview About Our New Book

The Concordia Publishing House blog has posted an interview with Rev. Trevor Sutton and me...

January 19, 2018

Should We Bring Back Earmarks to Make Congress Effective?

Our nation's legislative branch is stalemated on issue after issue, from the complexities of immigration...

January 18, 2018

The Philosophy That Opposes Birth and Being Born

In researching policies that are "antinatalist"--that is, "anti-birth," discouraging having children--I found that there is...

January 18, 2018

And Now a TV Series about the Trump White House?

Get ready to fall through the postmodernist looking glass, in which all distinctions between fiction...

January 17, 2018

Should Federal Disaster Funds Rebuild Churches?

Formerly, federal disaster funds helped with the rebuilding, but not for churches. Yet now FEMA...

January 17, 2018

Google’s Arts & Culture Site

Do you know about Google's Arts & Culture site? It's a rather remarkable virtual treasure...

January 16, 2018

Requiring Pro-Life Clinics to Promote Abortion

Not content with having legalized abortion, some pro-abortion extremists want to force pro-lifers to promote...

January 16, 2018

Aristotle on What’s Wrong with Today’s Movies

I finally realized what's wrong with movies today. What Aristotle described as the least important...

January 15, 2018

Visiting Churches When I Was Seven

Was my response an indication that I would eventually leave the bland, liberal mainline Protestantism...

January 15, 2018

Trump’s Mouth

On Tuesday, President Trump invited cameras into his negotiations with lawmakers over immigration and the...

January 12, 2018

“The Church of Tomorrow” Is For Sale

The church had no creeds. You could believe whatever you wanted! Surely that's a formula...

January 12, 2018

The Embarrassing Twitter Video on Censoring Conservatives

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas makes undercover videos of leftists freely admitting to what they do. Whereupon...

January 11, 2018

The Protestant Reformation & the Protestant Revolution

Yesterday's post on the Reformation of America, made me realize that the distinction between revolution...

January 11, 2018

The Osage Murders

We often say of a good book that "I couldn't put it down," a hyperbole...

January 10, 2018

The Reformation of America

A revolution approaches problems by overthrowing the old order and replacing it with something completely...

January 10, 2018

President Oprah Winfrey?

Talk show host and TV tycoon Oprah Winfrey gave a powerful speech on sexual harassment...

January 09, 2018

Spiritual Abuse?

The phenomenon is real, though I worry that it will be used as a club...