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October 2026

October 14, 2026

Gen Z Wants Evildoers to Be Punished, Not Forgiven

A religion professor notes that his Gen Z students tend to want evildoers to be...

October 06, 2026

Bible Reading and My Life

Reading the Bible, chapter by chapter, from Genesis to Revelation, over and over again, made...

July 2026

July 23, 2026

Clarifying the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms

Part IV of our series on the Lutheran doctrine of the Two Kingdoms: Summing up the...

August 2025

August 26, 2025

Trump Wants to Go to Heaven

Ten years ago, Donald Trump said that he has never asked God for forgiveness because...

February 2025

February 11, 2025

Reading the Bible vs. Reading Anything Else

Sometimes we Christians approach the Bible like any other book, reading it as we would...

December 2024

December 19, 2024

Pardons without Crimes?

President Biden, having extended clemency to over 1,500 offenders, is now, out of fear of...

October 2024

October 25, 2024

Must Reads, 10/25/24

Beginning an occasional feature highlighting articles and posts worth reading: The third wave of dog...

October 09, 2024

“Reformation Begins with Ourselves”

Herman Bavinck, another Dutch Reformed theologian who worked with Abraham Kuyper in the Anti-Revolutionary Party, urges...

February 2024

February 22, 2024

The Alternative to Christian Nationalism & Integralism

So if both Integralism and Christian Nationalism are wrong, what is the Christian conservative to...

February 21, 2024

Can Integralism Make People Good?

A book review brings out an aspect of Integralism--indeed, of at least some strains of...

January 2024

January 04, 2024

On the Pope’s Approval of Same-Sex Blessings

Pope Francis has approved a policy that will allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples,...

September 2023

September 28, 2023

Why Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Seminars Don’t Work

The approach DEI seminars typically use is first to make participants feel guilty by exposing...

August 2023

August 04, 2023

What Is Love?

The one theological virtue that is still in favor today is love. According to Peter...

June 2023

June 01, 2023

The Elder Brother Syndrome

Tim Keller, the former pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan who brought the Gospel...

September 2022

September 12, 2022

The Disappearance of the Redemption Arc

The "redemption arc"--a plot line in which a character changes from bad to good--is disappearing...

June 2022

June 23, 2022

What the Gay Hymns Tell Us

A collection of hymns for LGBTQ worshippers shows their spiritual yearnings. But it also shows...

February 2022

February 01, 2022

Hamann’s Conversion

J. G. Hamann's "Thoughts on the Course of My Life," in the "London Writings," translated...

February 24, 2021

The Word, the Holy Spirit, and Failure

The Swedish Lutheran bishop and novelist Bo Giertz cites three things that help us to...

February 17, 2021

An Evangelical Discovers the Need for Lent & Confession

A minister calls for his fellow evangelicals to recover the disciplines of Lent and the...

December 2020

December 08, 2020

Purity Tests

Many secularists are reverting to an insistence on purity, for themselves and others. Not moral...

October 2020

October 09, 2020

Two Different Understandings of “Justice”

Justice is an important theme of Scripture, so Christians can resonate with today's calls for...

September 2020

September 04, 2020

Recovering the Atonement

The doctrine of the atonement--that on the cross Christ bore our sins and endured the...

August 2020

August 13, 2020

The Problem with Coveting

How is it that "coveting" rates inclusion in the Ten Commandments? After all, it doesn't...

March 2020

March 18, 2020

The Bible on Plagues & Pestilence

As we face the coronavirus, the Bible has much to say about plagues and pestilences....

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Reformation Then and Now

The Church is discredited: plagued by corruption, including sex scandals. Trusting human leaders whose failures...

September 2018

September 17, 2018

The Unattainable Perfectionism of Millennials

The young adults of the Millennial generation are showing a higher rate of mental problems...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

Confession and Absolution

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has just issued a major study of the doctrine and...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

An Example of a Christian Nation

Poland officially crowned Jesus Christ as its king. It also remains resolutely pro-life. Christian morality...

June 19, 2018

The View That Everybody Goes to Heaven

We don't hear much today about Hell or the prospect of eternal punishment, do we? ...

June 07, 2018

Nearly Half of Americans Believe Pornography Is “Morally Acceptable”

The annual Values and Belief Survey from Gallup has found that nearly close to half Americans--with...