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July 2025

July 24, 2025

“Sex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies”

A number of tech start ups are devoted to the genetic screening and implantation of...

July 17, 2025

Liberal Theology & Eugenics

Eugenics--the attempt to improve the human gene pool by breeding for desirable traits and sterilizing...

July 11, 2025

Treating Feelings as the Source of Absolute Truth

People today are not really relativists; rather, they are dogmatic, to the point of demonizing...

July 07, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 7/7/25

Requiring schools to teach fetal development. Quantum computing and the end of cybersecurity. And Democrats...

July 01, 2025

New Rulings on Porn, Parental Rights, Injunctions, and More

The Supreme Court issued rulings that hinder porn, LGBTQ indoctrination in schools, Planned Parenthood, and...

June 2025

June 23, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 6/23/25

The U.S. attacks Iran. Supremes rule nuns don't have to pay for abortions for employees....

June 16, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 6/16/25

Israel's new war with Iran. Unemployment rate for computer engineering grads is double that of...

June 06, 2025

Why Suffering Does Not Negate the Goodness of Life

A FREE POST: The view that the fact of suffering negates the goodness of life...

June 05, 2025

“Pro-Mortalists” Actually Are Pro-Death

The terrorist who car bombed a fertility clinic recently was not pro-life, as was first...

May 2025

May 15, 2025

A New Book on Applying the Three Estates

A FREE POST: Rev. Paul Williams of the Lutheran Church of Canada has written a...

May 05, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/5/25

Canada's election. Only 11% of transgender "women," or fewer, get the operation. And the truth...

April 2025

April 21, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/21/25

The Pope has died. Illinois Bill Would Restrict Homeschooling. And Poland's Per Capita Economy to Surpass...

April 09, 2025

The War Against the Body

Underlying many of our moral and cultural issues today is a war against the body,...

April 04, 2025

Shifting the Abortion Debate

If two-thirds of women (67%) who get abortions didn't want to, and almost as many...

April 04, 2025

DISCUSS: Make Birth Free

Americans United for Life is promoting legislation they are calling "Make Birth Free." It would require...

March 2025

March 31, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/31/25

Trump's honeymoon is over. Abort the poor to save money. And Methodist schism sparks violence...

March 21, 2025

Luther on Wars of Necessity

While Luther in general accepted Just War Theory, he also redefined the criteria, to the...

March 12, 2025

The LCMS: Not as Conservative as We Think We are

The new Religious Landscape Study includes a wealth of data on denominations, including the Lutheran...

February 2025

February 24, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 2/24/25

In UK, the young are more religious than their parents or grandparents. The USA is back...

February 17, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 2/17/25

Pro-life laws are saving lives after all. The Mafia's complaints. And Iran doesn't want to...

February 04, 2025

A Heresy You Need to Know About

Catholic philosopher Edward Feser argues that "Wokism is the New Face of An Old Heresy," namely,...

February 03, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 2/3/25

Despite Stargate, China pulls ahead in the AI race. An executive order against transexual treatments for...

January 2025

January 30, 2025

Hating the Vulnerable

The classics scholar Nadya Williams says that behind the push for abortion and euthanasia is...

January 27, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 1/27/25

Trump's "shock and awe." The breakdown of conservative, liberal, or moderate. The woes of cable...

January 17, 2025

The Duties of the Collective Magistrate

Citizens in a democratic republic have the vocation of both subject and ruler. In a...

January 06, 2025

Epiphany Miscellany, 1/6/25

Jimmy Carter's genuine accomplishments; independence for Greenland; and indulgences for the Jubilee Year.

November 2024

November 18, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/18/24

What did NOT influence the election; the most pro-Trump racial group; and Catholics elected Trump.

November 08, 2024

Trump Wins and So Does Abortion

Cultural conservatives shouldn't feel too giddy over Donald Trump's victory. The election also marked the...

November 04, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/4/24

Medical AI is hallucinating; a salient question on transgenderism in sports; and a bunch more...

October 2024

October 23, 2024

Convicted for the Crime of Silent Prayer

After two years of legal proceedings, an Afghanistan war veteran, Adam Smith-Connor, was found guilty...