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November 2025

November 19, 2025

Items of Interest 11/19/25

A Psalm about AI. Martin Luther's handwriting font--and more. And my book on George Herbert...

October 2025

October 22, 2025

On the Vocation of a Postal Worker

Let us now praise vocations that are not necessarily fulfilling but are more in the...

October 01, 2025

Christianity in Ecuador

We Americans were moved and inspired by our Ecuadorian hosts' piety and devotion--their zeal for...

September 2025

September 30, 2025

Classically Educated in Ecuador

In our accreditation visit to a school in Cuenca, Ecuador, I found that not only...

September 16, 2025

A Tale of Two Funerals

On two funerals I attended and the different ways they responded to grief: emotional catharsis...

September 15, 2025

The Cranach Blog While I’m in Ecuador

By the time you read this, if all goes well, I should be in Cuenca,...

September 15, 2025

The Wrong Kind of Enthusiasm

This is my very first contribution to "Tabletalk," published in June 2001. I wrote about...

September 05, 2025

DISCUSS: What Books Shaped You in High School?

NPR asked listeners, "What books shaped you in high school?" Some who responded cited books...

August 2025

August 29, 2025

How to Make Natural Law Arguments

[A free post] Is it possible to argue rationally and persuasively about moral and cultural...

July 2025

July 15, 2025

The Texas Floods & Christ

The Texas floods that killed at last count 160 people, including 36 children, hit kind...

July 11, 2025

DISCUSS: What Do You Miss?

What do you miss? What do you recall that you value from your past, but...

July 10, 2025

Revulsion against AI

As companies, apps, agencies, and even schools are proudly announcing that they are going AI, the...

July 09, 2025

How C. S. Lewis Helped Make Me a Lutheran

[A Free Post] The online journal SIMUL was putting together an issue on C. S....

July 03, 2025

The Importance of Boredom & Daydreaming

We cannot handle being bored, so we use our cell phones to fill every moment...

June 2025

June 27, 2025

Knowing God by Knowing God Incarnate

The person of Jesus is uniquely compelling even to non-believers. We Christians believe Him to...

June 04, 2025

Picking Up a Piece of Paper

Our lives are filled with small, seemingly insignificant moments. But they can turn out to...

May 2025

May 20, 2025

The Whirlwind

I grew up in Oklahoma, the tornado capital of the world, so I had seen...

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 12, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/12/25

Trump apparently stopped a new war that had broken out between India and Pakistan, both...

May 07, 2025

Changing the Culture from Above or Below?

Is culture changed primarily from below, by masses of people transforming their thinking and behavior,...

April 2025

April 22, 2025

My AI Buber-Buddy

While working on my new book on "Technology and Vocation," I had an uncanny, ironic,...

April 18, 2025

My Song Is Love Unknown

The popular Good Friday hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown" is based on two poems...

April 17, 2025

The “Vast and Spacious Things” at Gethsemane

I owe a lot to the great Christian poet George Herbert: my dissertation, my career,...

January 2025

January 14, 2025

The Anti-Social Society

In today's culture, doing things with other people has become rarer and rarer. People are...

January 09, 2025

Luther Classical College & Other New Schools

Yesterday we discussed the prospects of reform in higher education, concluding that founding a new...

January 08, 2025

Reforming Higher Education

Woke ideology emanates from America's universities, which turn out the political activists, corporate executives, and...

December 2024

December 25, 2024

My Christmas Presents to You, 2024

Merry Christmas! A custom of this blog has been to give Christmas presents to my...

December 05, 2024

Eisenhower on the Vocation of Staffer

General and President Dwight Eisenhower laid out some principles for the vocation of staff member....

October 2024

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 26, 2024

Confessions of an Ex-Mainline Protestant

I grew up in mainline Protestantism and experienced it from the inside. I witnessed its...