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October 2024

October 08, 2024

The Anti-Revolutionary Party

As Christians are trying to figure out how they should pursue politics and cultural influence...

October 03, 2024

Baptism & Vocation; Identity & Purpose

There is a connection between baptism and vocation, which in turn connects to our identity...

October 01, 2024

The Cult That Grew Out of Mainline Protestantism

We usually associate religious cults with some bizarre made-up religions or with some kind of...

September 2024

September 25, 2024

What Happened When the Protestant Mainline Collapsed

The Mainline Protestant churches had long played the role as America's conscience. After their collapse,...

September 12, 2024

The Woke Right?

There is a woke left. But there is also a woke right. And the two...

September 11, 2024

“Incomplete Religions”

Many observers have noticed that when religion declines, other things--most noticably politics--rush in to fill...

September 10, 2024

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”

Synonyms are two words that have the same meaning. They are often used interchangeably. And...

September 09, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 9/9/24

The problem with 15-week abortion bans; Switzerland is reconsidering its neutrality; and leftist dictator changes...

September 03, 2024

Praise for the LCMS Victory Over Liberal Theology

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the split in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod...

August 2024

August 28, 2024

From My New Book “Embracing Your Lutheran Identity”

(A free post.) A sample from my new book "Embracing Your Lutheran Identity." In our...

August 27, 2024

The Book You Asked For Is Now Available

(A free post.) Two years ago, I wrote a post entitled "Teaching Lutheran Identity" about...

August 21, 2024

“Ready for Either”

Tracing the origin of the story from yesterday's post about the ox who is ready...

August 14, 2024

“Who Proceeds from the Father and the Son”

When we confess the Nicene Creed, we say that the Holy Spirit, "proceeds from the Father and  the Son." But...

August 13, 2024

A Lutheran Vice-President?

Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, is a Lutheran. This will doubtless...

August 09, 2024

DISCUSS: Christianity and the American Identity Debate

How does Christianity apply to the controversy over "America as an Idea" vs. "America as...

July 2024

July 12, 2024

DISCUSSION: Cutting Off Their Own Heads

Jeffrey Blehar tells a story from ancient China: "Yue’s most devoted warriors would march forward...

July 10, 2024

Solzhenitsyn’s Conversion

The Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" exposed the evils of Soviet Communism by...

July 02, 2024

Cold War II–and We Are the Soviets

Niall Ferguson has been arguing that a new cold war is emerging, with the alliance...

June 2024

June 27, 2024

The Constitution Is About Managing Disagreements

As a reaction to our political polarization and associated dysfunctions, all sides are expressing a...

June 26, 2024

What Does “Establishment of Religion” Actually Mean?

Louisiana's law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms is designed to cause...

June 21, 2024

DISCUSS: When Was America at Its Best?

Historians can debate when America was at its best. Was it in the era of...

June 20, 2024

Repairer of the Dung Gate

I would like to commend to you as a Biblical patron saint of vocation Malchijah...

June 19, 2024

The Loss of Language, Culture, & Relationships

Language is what makes culture and all human relationships possible. We are seeing a broad...

June 14, 2024

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Stages of Subversion

Aayan Hirsi Ali draws on the work of a KGB defector who testified about Soviet...

May 2024

May 28, 2024

The Barmen Declaration Then and Now

FREE POST: This year marks the 90th Anniversary of the Barmen Declaration, the statement of...

May 23, 2024

Conservatives Conserving a Liberal Status Quo

Brad Littlejohn says that, yes, Americans on the whole tend to be conservative, but only...

May 14, 2024

How “The Lutheran Hour” Countered the “Religious Depression”

A new book shows how the Catholic priest Fulton J. Sheen and the Lutheran pastor...

May 13, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 5/13/24

Originally, the progressive Methodists were supposed to leave. Why the pro-Hamas protesters are targeting liberals....

April 2024

April 24, 2024

Christianity without Transcendence

Carl Trueman warns against a Christianity that loses its transcendent focus when it is drawn...

April 18, 2024

Babyboomer Childhood

I came across some clickbait on things kids did in the 60s that parents would...