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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 24, 2024

The Poet of Joy

Thomas Traherne is the great poet of joy. Or, to use his term, "felicity." We...

September 17, 2024

“Everyone Has a Vocation, But Not All Have Jobs”

"Everyone has a vocation, but not all have jobs," observes economist Anne Bradley. "Meaningful work,...

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 22, 2024

Why Price Controls Cannot Work

Kamala Harris has announced her economic policy, which includes price controls. But regardless of ideology...

August 06, 2024

BLOG NEWS: Cranach is #8!

Adrian Warnock has devised a set of criteria for Christian blogs and has asked the...

July 2024

July 05, 2024

Aborting the Elderly vs. Treasuring Them

Our society is anti-life both at its very beginning and at its very end. "Euthanasia,"...

June 2024

June 28, 2024

Agatha Christie and the Mystery of Mysteries

There is a connection between the great mystery writer Agatha Christie, controversies among Catholics about...

June 21, 2024

On the Death of My Mother

My mother died a few weeks ago. She was 93, had Alzheimer's, was ready to...

June 20, 2024

Repairer of the Dung Gate

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

June 04, 2024

An Open Letter to Pastors in a Post-Christian World

A pastor recently thanked me for my "Letter to Pastors" that I wrote several years...

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 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...

April 2024

April 25, 2024

“Rebrand Evangelicalism” by Bringing Back Denominations

Many Christians are saying that the term "evangelical" has acquired negative connotations and how that...

April 18, 2024

Babyboomer Childhood

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

November 2023

November 15, 2023

The First Combat in Outer Space

An Israeli anti-missile system shot down an Iranian-made missile beyond the earth's atmosphere, the first...

November 07, 2023

Beware of Definitive Answers from ChatGPT

I have found that when ChatGPT doesn't have access to the sources it needs to...

October 2023

October 02, 2023

The People Have Spoken!

In the great picture election, we have a winner. And this election was not polarized...

September 2023

September 29, 2023

DISCUSSION: My Picture

DakotaLutheran complained in a comment about my picture. He challenged me to put up some...

August 2023

August 11, 2023

UFOs

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

June 2023

June 09, 2023

Moving and Death Cleaning

We are moving to St. Louis! This requires downsizing, which involves a meditative reflection on...

June 09, 2023

DISCUSSION: Moving

We are moving to St. Louis! Do any of you have some wisdom to share...

May 2023

May 30, 2023

Businesses That Won’t Take Money

The refusal of businesses to take cash--as a way to eliminate having to give change,...

April 2023

April 26, 2023

Lutherans Under Communism

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

April 19, 2023

Remembering Mad Magazine

Al Jaffee has died at the age of 102. He was the last living cartoonist...

March 2023

March 31, 2023

ChatGPT Writes a Cranach Post

Here is what I got when I told ChatGPT to "Write a post for the...

February 2023

February 20, 2023

How Four Strains of Protestantism Approach Politics

The different strains of Christianity have different approaches to politics, based on their assumptions about...

February 16, 2023

In Praise of Boredom

I have always been an apologist for boredom. So I appreciate Matt Labash for arguing...