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November 2016

November 15, 2016

Trump and the culture war issues

An Associated Press story, excerpted and linked after the jump, says that Trump's election victory...

November 14, 2016

Vocation as the foundation of culture

I learned some things at the Two Kingdoms conference I spoke at, sponsored by Jordan...

November 03, 2016

Liberalism of the left & liberalism of the right

The well-regarded ethicist Stanley Hauerwas reviews a new book by John Milibank, of "radical orthodoxy"...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Reaching today’s idolaters of the self

How do you proclaim the forgiveness of sins to someone who doesn't think he has...

October 26, 2016

Conference on Christ, Culture, and the Two Kingdoms

I'll be speaking at the 2016 Just and Sinner Conference this Thursday through Saturday. The...

October 21, 2016

Restoring society by going to Church

In the course of a review of R. R. Reno's Resurrecting the Idea of a...

October 21, 2016

What Trump gets right

The empty factories have their windows broken and weeds are taking over the parking lots,...

October 17, 2016

“God punishes wicked subjects by wicked rulers”

Luther did not actually say the words attributed to him, that he would rather be...

October 07, 2016

Men who won’t work

Nearly a third of American men aren't working. These include the unemployed, men who can't...

October 07, 2016

Lennonism

Michael Barone says that many in our cultural and political elite follow the tenets of...

October 05, 2016

U.S. no longer makes the “free country” top 10 list

The United States is no longer in the top 10 of the world's most free...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

The left is “weaponizing” sports

In our polarized society, there are few safe topics when you strike up a conversation...

September 14, 2016

Moral decline update

"Radical and aggressive secularism and atheism have replaced religion in virtually every school and throughout...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

Spiritual crisis in the white working class

Heroin used to be a problem mainly for the big cities. Today it is also...

August 29, 2016

Defending that LCMS judge who opposes gay marriage

As we've blogged about, Municipal Judge Ruth Neely of Pinedale, Wyoming--a member of the Lutheran...

August 26, 2016

“The issue will come and find you”

Liberal Baptist theologian and LGBT advocate David Gushee says that there is no middle ground when...

August 26, 2016

Scandinavian welfare state reform

As I reported from my recent sojourns in Scandinavia, the vaunted "welfare state" the Nordic...

August 22, 2016

Are Christians the powerful or the marginalized?

In the course of a post on why so many evangelicals are supporting Donald Trump,...

August 12, 2016

Who’ll win the Irish vote?

We keep getting told that demographics favor the Democrats and look bad for the Republicans,...

August 10, 2016

The whole world’s gone hipster

Go into a "cool" coffee shop. Notice the reclaimed wood, big glass windows, subdued colors,...

August 03, 2016

Young men living the dream

Research shows that young men 18-30 are more likely to be living with their parents...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

The plight of religious traditionalists

Rachel Lu has written an important essay for National Review on the plight of religious...

July 29, 2016

The party of the rich

Democrats are now the party of the rich, and Republicans are the party of the...

July 01, 2016

Military will now accept the transgendered

The Pentagon announced that it will now allow transgendered individuals to serve in the military...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

The end of the written word?

Facebook is predicting the end of the written word--at least on Facebook, which the head...

June 15, 2016

Importing illiberalism

David Harsanyi asks, referring to the technical word for free societies, "Why is it that...

June 14, 2016

Transgendered men in women’s sports

The sports world obediently accepts the new cultural mandates about gender. That means transgendered men...

June 01, 2016

Correlation is not causation in study of ELCA racial diversity

More evidence that scientists--especially social scientists--need to study philosophy, particularly the complicated question of what...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Britain now has more “nones” than Christians

Great Britain now has more people who say they have "no religion" (48%) than say...

May 26, 2016

Looking for a new moral code

Barna has released a fascinating study on Americans' moral beliefs. Eighty percent are worried about...