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May 2016

May 24, 2016

We aren’t as busy as we think we are

Chaucer describes a bustling lawyer (the Sergeant of Law) like this: Nowhere so bisy a man...

May 16, 2016

The transgender mandates

President Obama has commanded all public schools to open their bathrooms and locker rooms to either...

May 05, 2016

The Anti-Culture and its Unholy Trinity

We talk about engaging or changing the culture. Carl R. Trueman says that this is...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Christians’ transition from majority to minority

Josh Daffern says that all of the current controversies Christians are facing over religious liberty, sexuality,...

April 26, 2016

“The Smug Style in American Liberalism”

There is an astonishing article in the (liberal) Vox by the (liberal) Emmett Rensin entitled "The...

April 18, 2016

Applying what the Bible says about slavery

Jordan Cooper has an excellent discussion of what the Bible says about slavery. You need...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Moral relativism gives way to a new moralism

Moral relativism is over. Moral absolutes are back. The problem is, these are new moral...

March 23, 2016

Millennials are moving to the suburbs

Contrary to the free-floating urbanite stereotype of millennials, that under-35-year-old generation is now preoccupied with...

March 16, 2016

Hostility to religion

In 2012, the First Liberty Institute documented over 600 overt cases in America of "legal, social,...

March 07, 2016

Making America great again through vocation

Mark Hemingway excoriates the left's denigration of work and says that the lack of respect...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Reforming the Calendar

Do we need to reform the calendar to eliminate anomalies like Leap Year? Two Johns...

February 26, 2016

Democrats too are voting with their middle fingers

Just as grassroots Republicans are voting for Donald Trump as a defiant protest against their...

February 25, 2016

“We’re voting with our middle finger”

Donald Trump supports Obamacare, higher taxes, and gun control. He is weak on abortion, private...

February 23, 2016

Lutheranism & ethnicity

Lutheran churches in America have an ethnic origin--they were usually started by communities of German,...

February 17, 2016

PC police go after Martin Luther King

The University of Oregon has a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr., in its student...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

The end of the “noble savage”

Archaeologists have discovered the site of a deadly massacre in which 27 people were killed...

January 14, 2016

Episcopal Church (USA) suspended from Anglican Communion!

American Episcopalians have been booted from the Anglican Communion for allowing same-sex marriage! The conclave...

January 14, 2016

How Americans protect themselves from Christianity

Another brilliant analysis of the challenges facing American Christianity by James R. Rogers, Texas A&M...

January 13, 2016

If you are truly politically correct, take on these

If our cultural masters are serious about identity politics, blaming capitalism, and cultural oppression, there...

January 11, 2016

Germany’s second thoughts on immigrants

No country has been more welcoming of Middle Eastern immigrants than Germany, which has looked...

January 07, 2016

Small Terror

In the course of a larger essay on the world's political woes, David Brooks points...

January 04, 2016

The new colonialism

The left continues to condemn colonialism. Western nations taking over "third world" countries was indeed...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

The Year that Nothing Worked

It's been a rough year. Bloomberg's Lu Wang, referring specifically to economics and investing, has...

December 24, 2015

“Happy Federal Holiday”

A Florida professor is proposing in the name of inclusivity a season's greeting that will...

December 21, 2015

Less than half of American children live with both parents

There are lots of disturbing statistics that get thrown out by every latest study. Phil...

December 18, 2015

Letting the culture do the work of the church

Political scientist James R. Rogers (a member of the LCMS) argues that a big part...

December 11, 2015

The death of relativism?

Can the West keep up its postmodernist ideology of relativism--that there is no moral truth...

December 07, 2015

Barbie for boys

Mattel is jumping on the fluid gender bandwagon by marketing a Barbie to boys. Not...

November 2015

November 27, 2015

Most illegal immigrants are shielded from deportation

Although the Supreme Court struck down President Obama's amnesty program that he was imposing by...

November 23, 2015

Could the Scandinavian model work here?

Bernie Sanders is proposing that the United States adopt the "democratic socialism" of the Scandinavian...