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July 2023

July 19, 2023

Luther on NOT Obeying Rulers

In his treatise "Temporal Authority: The Extent to Which It Should Be Obeyed," Martin Luther...

June 2023

June 16, 2023

When a Culture Reaches the Stage of “Decadence”

The word "decadence" is a metaphor that derives from "decay," when something that was once...

June 08, 2023

Pentecost and the Fall of Civilizations

Is Western Civilization over? Has it come to an end like all of the others? ...

April 2023

April 26, 2023

Lutherans Under Communism

My review of "The Gates of Hell" by Matthew Heise, about the persecution of Lutherans...

April 14, 2023

DISCUSSION: What Could Bring Americans Together?

Does our nation need to overcome its polarization, and, if so, how might that be...

April 13, 2023

Racism and the White Working Class

The white working class is often assumed to be a hotbed of racism. And yet...

April 11, 2023

An Easter Puzzle & What ChatGBT Is Good For

A medieval Latin line--translated into English as “The love of Christ seeks many while injustice...

March 2023

March 30, 2023

The Author’s Intention

Textual editors are scholars who restore literary works by recovering the author's intentions. That involves...

March 21, 2023

Truth in Labeling

A writer observes that since "liberal" denotes freedom, tolerance, and individualism--values not typically honored today...

March 20, 2023

Monday Miscellany 3/20/23

Claiming that Shakespeare invented whiteness, the real Wakanda, the state's information war against its own...

March 14, 2023

The Revolution of ChatGPT

There is a major new development in online technology: ChatGPT, a chat system that uses...

March 02, 2023

The Conservative and Christian Resistance to Hitler

My review of "White Knights in the Black Orchestra" by Tom Dunkel, which tells of...

February 2023

February 22, 2023

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down

Contrary to what we have been told, "Ring around the Rosie" is NOT about dying...

February 21, 2023

The Black Church Reconsidered

It is often assumed that slaveholders imposed Christianity on their African slaves and that separate...

January 2023

January 25, 2023

The Difference Between Liberals and Progressives

There is a big difference between old-style liberals and today's woke progressives. A survey of...

January 23, 2023

Not Living Up to Values Does Not Mean the Values Are Lies

Critical race theorists are saying America's founding ideals of liberty and equality are lies, since...

January 13, 2023

Against “Caesarism”

The Left keeps charging conservatives with rejecting democracy. That's mostly a slander. But now a...

January 09, 2023

Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

Hermann Sasse, writing about Hitler's Germany, has some powerful words about the spiritual, cultural, and...

January 03, 2023

The Outlook for 2024

We made our predictions for 2024, but other people have been making predictions too. In...

December 2022

December 30, 2022

DISCUSSION: The Good Things That Happened in 2022

Looking back at the previous year is usually an exercise in reflecting on how bad...

December 29, 2022

Checking Our Predictions for 2022

Last year about this time, we made our Predictions for 2022. Now that year is...

December 27, 2022

The Year of Implosions

Kenzie Bryant says that 2022 has been the year of implosions. She gives some examples....

December 07, 2022

How Institutions Become Corrupt

Two historians say that institutions become corrupt when "they continue to function, but in ways...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

The Dream of Frederick the Wise

Frederick the Wise supposedly had a dream the night before Luther posted his theses in...

November 14, 2022

Luther’s Cultural Influence

Luther and the Reformation had a major cultural impact, from the promotion of universal education...

November 11, 2022

The Political Influence of the Reformation

A scholar details the influence of the Reformation on the rise of liberal democracy, showing...

November 03, 2022

Big Government Conservatism?

Most American conservatives believe in limited government, individual freedom, and free market economics. Some on...

October 2022

October 21, 2022

DISCUSS: What Will Future Generations Think of Us?

Looking back, we see that in many ways our ancestors were "deplorable"--in their acceptance of...

October 20, 2022

A Civilization Racing Backwards

What if our civilization is devolving instead of evolving? That is, what if we Westerners...

October 14, 2022

Salvation by Dying in Battle

In support of Vladimir Putin's order to mobilize Russians for the war in Ukraine, the...