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July 2015

July 31, 2015

Camille Paglia unchained

Camille Paglia is a leftist who lambastes leftists and appreciates conservatives. She is a feminist...

May 2015

May 11, 2015

Jesus vs. Christ

Chuck Queen, a progressive Baptist, says that "Jesus is not the same as Christ." The...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

Cancelling church

Yet more weekend snow storms. . . .Local news where we are, on the road...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

More martyrs for faith & freedom

ISIS now has a presence in Libya, and the group has beheaded 21 Coptic Christians...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

State of the Union

So what did you think of President Obama's State of the Union address? Notice how...

January 13, 2015

Two songs, two kinds of piety

On the road over the holidays, I heard on the radio these two songs, one...

January 07, 2015

Boehner holds on and takes revenge

The Republicans took over the Legislative Branch today. Despite an attempt to oust him as...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

September 2014

September 12, 2014

Cooking for your family as “tyranny” or as “vocation”

Slate has published a column by Amanda Marcotte on "the tyranny of the home-cooked family...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Accounting for the “pause” in global warming

Scientists admit that there has been no global warming between 1998 and 2013, even though...

July 16, 2014

Targeting the taboos against pedophilia & incest

Michael Avramovich writes about efforts in academia, psychiatry, and the law to normalize pedophilia and...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Your one-stop Superbowl blog

We must celebrate our national holiday, Superbowl Sunday, so use this blog to make predictions,...

January 30, 2014

Luther and bowling?

Martin Luther's influence goes far beyond the theology of the Lutheran Church. His putting the...

November 2013

November 11, 2013

Veterans Day

This is Veterans Day, so let us honor those who have served in the military...

September 2013

September 09, 2013

Boy Scout dissidents form alternative organization

Now that the Boy Scouts of America have accepted homosexuality, veterans of the scouting movement...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

Liturgical Baptists

A principle of the evangelical church growth movement is that worship should change to reflect...

June 21, 2013

We posted about Glenn Stanton's "Fact Checker" post at Gospel Coalition challenging the notion that...

June 10, 2013

The Surveillance State is also Bugging the Internet

As we posted about last week, the federal government has been secretly monitoring millions of...

June 05, 2013

Funeral update

Well, we are getting back to normal now. Our ill-fated road trip is over, and...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

The fiscal cliff choice

Here is the choice that Congress has, as we approach the "fiscal cliff" next Tuesday,...

December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas

Dear readers, I wish all of you the joy of the season and every blessing...

December 14, 2012

Slaughter of the innocents

Mass murder of little children! Matricide! Unfathomable evil. What can be said about the school...

December 07, 2012

This blog’s next step

I started blogging when I wrote small posts for World Magazine's blog back when blogs...

October 2012

October 02, 2012

Questions for the debates

Tomorrow is the first presidential debate. If you were one of the moderators, what questions...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

Confessional Anglicanism

My colleague Dr. Roberta Bayer, editor of The Anglican Way (the publication of the Prayer...

September 21, 2012

Sitting out the election?

I've talked to quite a few people who say they are planning to just sit...

July 2012

July 21, 2012

The Batman killings

So what can we say about the shootings in that Aurora, Colorado, movie theater? I'm...

May 2012

May 11, 2012

Things that didn’t happen

But that we thought might happen. . . . . Apparently, Fidel Castro did NOT...

May 04, 2012

These technical difficulties

No sooner had I trumpeted the return of this blog than the whole thing went...