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January 2026

January 08, 2026

Collapse of a Shared Reality

Our postmodern relativism and constructivism, combined with our technology, threaten to bring on the collapse...

December 2025

December 29, 2025

A Year-in-Review Miscellany, 12/29/25

Top 10 news stories of 2025. Top 10 religion stories of 2025. The funniest news...

December 17, 2025

Secular Protestantism

Daniel Hummel believes that America, however secular it has become, has a Protestant culture. And...

December 08, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 12/8/25

Free money for investment accounts for babies and children. Quebec's new secularism law. And the...

December 03, 2025

The Center of the Universe

According to today's cosmologists, one can say that the universe has no center, so that...

November 2025

November 27, 2025

Thanksgiving, Entitlement, & Grace

The opposite of gratitude is entitlement. But thanksgiving involves a sense of grace. That connection...

November 24, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 11/24/25

Court forbids mom from taking her daughter to church. Beware contributions with a pre-checked box. ...

October 2025

October 24, 2025

Much of the World Puts Its Trust in AI

In less than a year, we have moved from "AI as a tool" to "AI...

October 14, 2025

“In Killing God, We Kill Man”

Having repudiated God, our society is now repudiating humanity.

October 03, 2025

On the Antichrist and the Necessity of a Sacred Order

Novelist Paul Kingsnorth, the former radical environmentalist turned Eastern Orthodox Christian, has been saying that...

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 26, 2025

Prayer and God’s Name

The Lord’s Prayer reminds us that it makes a huge difference whom we are praying...

August 2025

August 06, 2025

Re-enchantment or More Disenchantment?

With the rise of science over religion, "disenchantment" has become a hallmark of modernity. People...

July 2025

July 16, 2025

On Protestant Denominations

Denominations are being attacked from both a Catholic and a Protestant direction. Here is a...

June 2025

June 26, 2025

“Commitment to Follow Jesus” Surges

Barna has found that 66% of Americans say, "I have made a personal commitment to...

June 20, 2025

Surprises from a Major Study of World Religion

The most Christian region of the world is sub-Saharan Africa. The world's fastest growing religion...

June 19, 2025

What Comes After the Knowledge System Collapse?

if Gioia is right that our existing knowledge system is collapsing, what might we expect...

June 10, 2025

The Hidden Christians

In the 16th century, Jesuit missionaries brought Christianity to Japan. But then the Shoguns exterminated...

May 2025

May 28, 2025

The Nicene Creed & Worship

On the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed, a patristics scholar explains...

May 09, 2025

The Three Modes of Religion (and What May Come Next)

If we are moving into a post-secular era, a broad-based recovery of religion in society,...

May 08, 2025

Surprises from a Huge Study on Human Flourishing

An international study of human flourishing has been released, and it is full of surprises.

May 02, 2025

DISCUSS: Make America Religious Again

President Trump has said he wants to help make America more religious than it has...

April 2025

April 30, 2025

The Stoic Revival

Christians have been discussing the evident decline in affiliations with Christianity. Well, other religions are...

April 25, 2025

The Faith-Religion Cycle

Researchers note that while church affiliation has plummeted, religious beliefs have not. They conclude that...

April 24, 2025

The Every-Hundred-Years Revival

Great Britain has had the reputation as one of the most secularized nations in the...

April 10, 2025

The Nones Are Actually Declining

A brand new study found that 24% of Americans were "Nones" in 2023. But one...

April 07, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/7/25

Upending the economy. The Marxist comic book. And how to thwart a black mass.

March 2025

March 14, 2025

“Mainline” Protestantism Is No Longer Mainstream

The new "Religious Landscape Survey" findings about "Mainline Protestantism" herald a significant development in the...

March 13, 2025

What Is an Evangelical?

The new Religious Landscape Survey says that 23% of American Christians are "evangelicals." But that's...

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...