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September 2022

September 07, 2022

The Price of Secularism

Does it seem to you that our society is mentally ill? There is a word...

July 2022

July 22, 2022

The Self-Destruction of Progressivism

Christians today can be pessimistic about their prospects in the face of the seeming triumph...

June 2022

June 20, 2022

Declining Belief in God

In the 1960s, 98% of Americans believed in God. According to the latest Gallup Poll,...

June 07, 2022

The Conversion of a “Spiritual but Not Religious” Secularist

British novelist Paul Kingsnorth has written "an essay-length account of my journey from atheism to...

June 06, 2022

The Opposite of Christianity?

In a penetrating critique of contemporary culture, the novelist Paul Kingsnorth argues that the Christian...

June 01, 2022

Churches as the Biggest Threat to Religion?

We usually assume that threats to Christianity come from the outside--the forces of secularism, postmodernism,...

April 2022

April 11, 2022

Secularists Seeking Forgiveness

Vox has been running a series on the importance of forgiving and finding forgiveness. Though...

January 2022

January 20, 2022

How the Loss of Family & Church Gave Us Identity Politics

Mary Eberstadt argues that the decline of the family and of the church--the traditional sources...

January 10, 2022

Post-Christian Christianity

The problem is not just a secularized culture, but a secularized church. Russell Moore warns...

December 2021

December 20, 2021

The “Ecosystem” of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

The "institutional church" is derided by just about everybody. But few people have encountered a...

May 2021

May 20, 2021

Is Secularism Crumbling?

Is secularism starting to lose its appeal? A European evangelist thinks so, citing five specific...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

The Crises in the West and in Islam

The new spate of Islamic terrorism in France, due to more Charlie Hebdo cartoons, demonstrates...

November 20, 2020

The USA is 1/3 Religious, 1/3 Secularist, & 1/3 in between

When it comes to religion, the best way to describe the nation overall is that...

September 2020

September 25, 2020

Count von Zinzendorf Did Not Lead a Vampire Sex Cult

A television drama on PBS described Count von Zinzendorf as a strange mystic who worshiped...

August 2020

August 27, 2020

Protestant Integralism

Integralism is a Catholic political theory in which the church--through the Pope and the Emperor--exercises...

July 2020

July 08, 2020

A Great Awakening without Christianity

Some people who were zealous for social distancing, mask wearing, and avoiding crowds to counter...

July 07, 2020

Protestantism without the Christianity

"Post-Protestant" refers to the Protestant mindset that continues, even though the Protestant religious beliefs that...

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Can We Have Christian Influence without Christianity?

A new book by a secular historian demonstrates how Christianity gave our civilization such values...

May 2020

May 08, 2020

Reversing Religious Decline

Religion waxes and wanes in a culture and throughout history. It can fade away, but...

April 2020

April 16, 2020

The Religion of Desire

According to a book entitled "Is Europe Christian?" the secularism of contemporary Western culture comes...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

My New Book on Secularism

My new book from Crossway has been released. It's entitled "Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary...

January 10, 2020

Millennials Are Staying in Church if They Went as Children–Unless They Marry Outside the Faith

Millennials are increasingly leaving the church and, unlike other generations, they are not coming back...

December 2019

December 27, 2019

Christianity in 2019

My list of religious developments, focusing on Christianity, that took place in 2019 and that...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

Home Alone

Americans increasingly have stopped going out, choosing to just stay home, preferably by themselves. This...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

“The Myth of the Dying Church”

We keep hearing that Christianity--particularly conservative, evangelical, orthodox Christianity--is dying out. We are told that...

June 2019

June 20, 2019

Lost in a Meaningless Universe

We Christians often speak of non-believers as "lost." That is no metaphor today. For all...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

Notre Dame and the Two Kinds of Secularism

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is iconic for lots of reasons. Modernism began, according to...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

The Growing Need for Exorcisms

Following up with our recent post on exorcism, The Atlantic--which is far from being a Christian or...

November 02, 2018

Most “Nones” (& Lots of Christians) Believe in New Age Religion

The growing number of "Nones," those who profess no religion, makes many observers assume that...

September 2018

September 20, 2018

The Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal Is Bigger Crisis Than the Reformation?

The priest sex-abuse scandal is the biggest crisis to hit the Roman Catholic church since...