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September 2026

September 04, 2026

Luther vs. Kuyper on Christianity & Culture

Both Luther and Kuyper agree that Christ is Lord over all things. A Kuyperian approach...

June 2026

June 02, 2026

“The Ideological Pursuit of the Machine God”

At first, AI was developed as a focused tool for specific uses. But the major...

November 2025

November 27, 2025

Thanksgiving, Entitlement, & Grace

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

July 2025

July 28, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 7/28/25

Minneapolis is also going for a socialist mayor. Europe is making itself go extinct. And...

May 2025

May 30, 2025

DISCUSS: Do You Feel Free?

Do you feel free? Are you satisfied with your personal freedom? Why do you think...

April 2025

April 11, 2025

The Common Order of Christian Love

Luther's doctrine of the estates is an important facet--in addition to the Two Kingdoms and...

December 2024

December 18, 2024

“They Will Say, ‘Blessed Are the Barren'”

Jesus gives a number of signs that signify that the End Times. One of them...

October 2024

October 28, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 10/28/24

Withholding the evidence about transgender treatments. Where are the government-funded EV chargers? & From MAGA to...

August 2024

August 15, 2024

How Postmodernism Infects Conservative Churches

"Even in churches that have stayed faithful to biblical orthodoxy," observes Christian historian Thomas Kidd,...

July 2024

July 25, 2024

Kamala Harris on Life Issues & Religious Liberty

With her record of opposing religious exemptions, punishing prolifers, and seeking to require pro-lifers to...

May 2024

May 03, 2024

The Post-Liberal University

We shouldn't be surprised at the campus protests in support of Hamas terrorists over Israel,...

March 2024

March 29, 2024

Bach’s “St. John Passion”

If you went to the Good Friday Vespers service at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig...

February 2024

February 28, 2024

“Welcome to the End of Democracy!”

Getting rid of democracy is not just the agenda of radical political theorists. Now grassroot...

November 2023

November 10, 2023

DISCUSSION: What Books Have Changed Your Way of Thinking?

Name a book that was not only informative or enjoyable but paradigm-shifting, that changed your...

August 2023

August 30, 2023

Victories in the Language Wars

Whoever controls the language, it has been said, controls how people think. The left has...

June 2023

June 15, 2023

The Openness to “Big Brother”-style Government Surveillance

George Orwell's novel "1984" projected a terrifying dystopia in which the government installs cameras in...

April 2023

April 21, 2023

DISCUSSION: Electability

Instead of asking whom you want to be president, this time I am asking a...

April 03, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 4/3/23

The six martyrs of Nashville, Getting Trump, and the Metaverse goes bust.

March 2023

March 29, 2023

Human Intelligence Is Going Down

As Artificial Intelligence is getting better, human intelligence is getting worse. A study has found...

March 07, 2023

Euthanasia for All

If there is a "right to die," then that right must extend to everyone. Not...

December 2022

December 30, 2022

Your Predictions for 2023

Today we invite you to make predictions for 2023. We will check them at the...

December 09, 2022

DISCUSS: “Cool Sites I Found on the Internet”

Several decades ago, when the Internet was new, a common topic of online conversation was...

December 02, 2022

DISCUSS: Books That “Set You on Fire”

What books have not only influenced you but inspired you?

October 2022

October 06, 2022

“Religion Stands on Tip-toe in Our Land”

Projections that Christianity will dwindle in America call to mind George Herbert's poem "Church Militant,"...

September 2022

September 27, 2022

What Evangelicals Believe–and Don’t Believe–about Theology

The new "State of Theology" study shows that large percentages of evangelicals are heretics, universalists,...

August 2022

August 22, 2022

How to Be Really Transgressive

Earlier this month, The New York Times, no less, published an opinion piece by Julia...

August 19, 2022

DISCUSS: Prospects for Midterm Elections

As the midterm elections on November 8 get closer, the races may be tightening. Republicans...

August 05, 2022

Deconstructing Faith and the Theology of the Cross? (Part 2)

"Deconstructing" one's faith assumes that the faith is a construction, rather than a revelation of...

July 2022

July 15, 2022

Prayer List

Considering today's post about praying for others, what are some things and people that we,...

July 04, 2022

Celebrating–Not Boycotting–the Fourth of July

Some people are calling for a boycott of Independence Day celebrations due to the overturn...