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February 2018

February 16, 2018

Culture Against Christ

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

February 15, 2018

Cultural Pressure vs. Religious Liberty

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

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

Gentry Liberals

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

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 08, 2018

The Olympics & the Disenchantment of Sports

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

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 02, 2018

The End of Anonymous Access to Pornography?

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

January 2018

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...

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 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 24, 2018

Technology, Sex, & Totalitarianism

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

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 10, 2018

The Reformation of America

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

January 09, 2018

Warnings Against the “Re-Moralization” of Sex

People are fighting to keep the sexual revolution alive, even as it falls apart. They...

January 04, 2018

New Religions Rushing into the Void

Is the criticism of religious “politicization” really fair? Could the problem be that politicians have...

January 03, 2018

How the Sexual Revolution Morphed into a Religion

If traditional religions are receding, and yet much of the population remains “spiritual but not...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

The Top Religion Stories of 2017 Are Mostly About Trump

Continuing our look back at 2017, we turn our attention to developments in religion. A...

December 27, 2017

LCMS Missionary Battling Witch-Burnings in New Guinea

An LCMS missionary is getting attention for battling "sanguma" in Papua New Guinea, the practice...

December 25, 2017

The Day Even Non-Believers Honor Jesus Despite Themselves

It's Christmas, hailed in at least one secular song as "the most wonderful time...

December 22, 2017

“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” “Do They Know What Christmas Is?”

Back in 1984, British musician Bob Geldof put together "Band Aid," a "super-group" of pop...

December 20, 2017

A Solution to the Pronoun Problem

At this moment in the long history of the language, English speakers and writers are...

December 13, 2017

The Different Meanings of “Happiness”

One of our inalienable rights, according to the Declaration of Independence, is "the pursuit of...

December 08, 2017

Political Ideology as Our New Religions

Nancy Pelosi describes sexual abuser John Conyers as an "icon." Environmentalists prophecy an apocalyptic last...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

The LCMS Adult Conversion Rate & Other Surprising Statistics

Per capita, the LCMS has one convert for every 44 adult members. That is a...

November 28, 2017

A New Sexual Identity: The Digisexuals

Add to the panoply of sexual preferences, orientations, and identities a new term, one that...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

What the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation is NOT About

The 500th anniversary of Luther's posting of the 95 Theses is soon upon us (next...

October 27, 2017

Conservatives–and Christians?–for Marijuana Legalization

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans support the legalization of marijuana. More than half (51%) of...

October 25, 2017

Higher Criticism, Darwinism, & the Loss of Western Culture

Western civilization seems to be committing suicide. What else to call it when a culture...