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November 2023

November 21, 2023

The Decline of Christianity Causes the Decline of Liberalism?

We have been worrying about the decline of Christianity, and we have also been worrying...

October 2023

October 25, 2023

On Trying to Make the Sexes Indistinguishable

Responding to the Vatican's Synod on Synodality and its discussions on sex and gender, Anthony...

October 16, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 10/16/23

The cost of Ivy-League radicalism; "preserve, protect and defend" doesn't mean "support"; and Bigfoot makes...

October 13, 2023

From the Battle for the Bible to the Battle for the Body

A few decades ago, Christians were torn over a controversy that became known as "the...

October 12, 2023

Does Everything Have Consciousness?

Science has uncovered a huge amount of information about the universe. But some areas are...

August 2023

August 22, 2023

The Beauty of God

Jonathan Edwards is best known for his hair-raising fire and brimstone sermon "Sinners in the...

August 21, 2023

Monday Miscellany 8/21/23

Trump's 91 felony charges, hybrid genders, and 22 states outlaw sex change surgeries for children.

August 11, 2023

UFOs

A former high-level intelligence official told a congressional committee that he has classified evidence that...

July 2023

July 25, 2023

Salvation from Being “Spiritual”

Today people claim to be "spiritual but not religious." Even many religious people seek to...

June 2023

June 30, 2023

Our Pagan Theocracy

While progressives keep raising the specter of a Christian theocracy--as if that could happen--the real...

June 07, 2023

“What can we do when there’s nothing left to conserve?”

British novelist Paul Kingsnorth, who moved from radical environmentalism to Orthodox Christianity, has published an...

May 2023

May 04, 2023

Traits of Paganism

A rabbi sees a reversion to paganism in contemporary thought and culture. He looks at...

May 02, 2023

How a Cat Glorifies God

Christopher Smart was an 18th century poet who was locked up in an insane asylum,...

March 2023

March 23, 2023

Light and Christ

Old science purported to dispel mysteries. New science shows reality to be more mysterious than...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

And now the “Transabled”

Some people have the desire to be physically disabled--to be blind, deaf, paralyzed, or an...

January 20, 2023

DISCUSSION: Weird Coincidences

Some researchers are conducting studies on "weird" or "meaningful" coincidences. Are they random flukes or...

January 05, 2023

Christianity and Matter

St. John Damascene has been recommended as the patron saint of science, for his writings...

December 2022

December 28, 2022

The Next World-Changing Technology?

Most of us here have lived through the development of a technology that can be...

December 06, 2022

An Alien Programmer? Or a Creator God?

Another thing many of our tech lords believe: The universe and we ourselves are actually...

October 2022

October 26, 2022

Worship in the Metaverse

Lutheran pastor and media scholar Trevor Sutton discusses the efforts of some churches to hold...

October 25, 2022

Luther at the Movies Destroys the Metaverse

Anthony Sacramone, of Luther at the Movies fame, is the editor of Religion & Liberty,...

October 19, 2022

Back to Animism

The latest rage among those who are "spiritual but not religious" is animism. That is...

July 2022

July 25, 2022

How Environmental Extremism Is Destroying a Nation

Sri Lanka was once one of the most highly-developed nations in South Asia. But now...

June 2022

June 07, 2022

The Conversion of a “Spiritual but Not Religious” Secularist

British novelist Paul Kingsnorth has written "an essay-length account of my journey from atheism to...

May 2022

May 06, 2022

The Father Almighty, POET of Heaven and Earth

A Psalms commentary points out that "poet" comes from the Greek, meaning literally "maker," so...

April 2022

April 04, 2022

Touch This Tree and You’ll Want to Die

A close encounter with the stinging tree of Australia, which, to touch, creates such excruciating...

March 2022

March 16, 2022

Lutheran Mercy-Work in Ukraine and Ethiopia

Lutheran churches are mobilizing to help refugees in Ukraine and drought victims in Ethiopia. This...

March 09, 2022

“You’ll Be Able to Create Worlds with Just Your Voice”

Mark Zuckerberg's description of how we will be able to create our own worlds parallels...

March 08, 2022

The Goal Is to Make the Metaverse our “Primary” Reality

The Metaverse may seem ridiculous, but its designers hope for its virtual reality to become...

December 2021

December 17, 2021

“The Biggest Disruption to Human Life We Have Ever Seen”

We've blogged about the Metaverse--which promises to let us live our lives inside shared virtual...