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February 2019

February 11, 2019

Running Away from the Crazier Parts of the Green New Deal

As virtually every declared Democratic candidate for president has pledged fealty to the Green New...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Replace the Commandments with the Sermon on the Mount?

Andy Stanley is a prominent megachurch pastor in Atlanta who has become known for stirring...

December 2018

December 14, 2018

World’s Favorite Verses from Digital Bibles

The Bible has always worked well with new information technology, from the printing press--which took...

November 2018

November 14, 2018

The Widow and Her Bad Investment

One of the speakers at the Rural and Small Town Ministry conference I attended was...

November 07, 2018

A Divided Government for a Divided Nation

In the midterm election--which had been turned into a midterm examination for President Trump--Democrats took...

November 05, 2018

The Brand Preferences of Liberals vs. Conservatives

As we get ready for election day tomorrow--which we will discuss then--we all know...

August 2018

August 17, 2018

Grand Jury Accuses 301 Priests of Child Sexual Abuse

A grand jury in Pittsburgh investigating just six Pennsylvania dioceses accused 301 Roman Catholic priests...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

Kansas City BBQ & Anthony Bourdain

I recently wrote a post called My BBQ Pilgrimage about my five days in Texas visiting acclaimed...

June 11, 2018

My BBQ Pilgrimage

The week before last I found myself in Texas at the very epicenter of the...

February 2018

February 07, 2018

Adding Heterosexuals to the LGBT Category

It's being reported that some activists want to expand the LGBT category so that it...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

The LCMS Adult Conversion Rate & Other Surprising Statistics

Per capita, the LCMS has one convert for every 44 adult members. That is a...

November 03, 2017

Russia Bought Ads Against Both Sides!

The Russians are being accused of intervening into the U.S. presidential election in support of...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

And now “rethinking” free speech

The zeal to support the LGBT cause has led to a "rethinking" of the...

May 2017

May 12, 2017

Repealing chivalrous laws

The Oklahoma state legislature, supposedly a conservative lot, has repealed the criminal seduction law, which...

May 10, 2017

The immigrant converts in Finland

I have been blogging quite a bit about the Muslim immigrants in Europe who are...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

The Resurrection on the Isenheim altar

On Good Friday,I posted a picture of Christ on the Cross from the altarpiece in...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

Conform to reality or subdue reality?

Justin Taylor quotes from C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man. Peter Kreeft calls these...

February 01, 2017

“Pregnant people”

The British Medical Association has issued guidelines saying that to avoid offending the transgendered, health...

January 2017

January 06, 2017

Democrats hope to come back by going left

Democrats strategizing over how to overcome their recent defeats now have a plan: go left....

December 2016

December 14, 2016

Gift ideas: Reading Romans with Luther

Let's start a series of posts on ideas for Christmas presents! Here is a good...

December 13, 2016

Macy’s drops Planned Parenthood

Macy's department store no longer funds or matches contributions to Planned Parenthood. Neither do AT&T,...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

What Trump will do on his very first day

Donald Trump announced a series of executive actions that he will put in place on his...

November 14, 2016

Leon Russell dies

Another icon of my youth, Leon Russell, passed away at age 74. A piano player...

November 10, 2016

Putting together a Trump administration

There is running for office and then there is governing, two distinct tasks requiring two...

October 2016

October 19, 2016

Liveblogging the final debate

This is the last presidential debate, for which we can all be thankful. I'll give...

October 08, 2016

The drama around Sunday’s debate

The second presidential debate will be held Sunday at 9:00 p.m. ET, to be covered...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Oberlin students demand end to grades below C

Students at Oberlin, which has the reputation as a good school, are demanding that the...

March 2016

March 04, 2016

Thus passes the glory of the world

Aubrey McClendon, founder of Chesapeake Energy, was one of Oklahoma City's most prominent citizens. So...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

Zika virus or pesticide?

The Zika virus is associated with rare birth defect microcephaly, but no causal connection has...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

The life uniform movement

Have you heard of the "life uniform" movement? It involves wearing the same kind of...