Should “casual” ever be someone’s impression of the miraculous Presence of God Incarnate in our midst in Word and Sacrament?

There’s a better option than simply discriminating for the other side.

In Psalm 119:104, the psalmist declares, "Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way." We explore what it means to hate false ways in light of God’s Word, with a particular focus on the often-ignored topic of birth control.

A repeated lament in LCMS circles - usually coming from the non-liturgical contingent - is that “we don’t trust one another in the LCMS.” And it is lamentable. But it should be understandable.

“The traditional liturgy is the real “best practice” that provides a tried and true guardrail to assure that our worship is biblical, evangelical, Christocentric, cruciform, and in accordance with our shared Lutheran confessions. Far from limiting our evangelical freedom, guardrails provide a range of freedom while at the same time protecting us from crashing the vehicle by veering too far off course.”

Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code.

"For the Christian, then, a man-made utopia is truly “no place,” and the failure to bring it about is to be expected—and even in a sense desired, as any attempt to perfect man by natural means will necessarily be forced, violent, and totalitarian. Only God who has made man can perfect man. It was the desire of our first parents to grasp at that perfection for themselves that put us on this long road. Defeat in this life, far from threatening our faith, is one of its basic assumptions. As is the conviction that God has already won the victory."

Florida voters are being denied the opportunity to make distinctions between abortion regulations at the ballot box.

On September 24, 1979, Columbus-based CompuServe launched its online service for consumers. Its subscribers were among the first to have access to email, online chat, digital newspapers and the ability to share and download files.

Remember when progressive governments outlawed church gatherings but sanctioned sex orgies? Yes, it really happened. As more Covid authoritarianism comes to

It wasn’t abortion bans, but medical error and the cavalier regulation of abortion pills that killed Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.

Closed Communion is a difficult doctrine and practice. Much of the difficulty comes from the different assumptions the Bible has about our faith (is it individual or corporate, private or...

The fact that the Lord created the universe in six days is not to be underestimated. After all, Almighty God could have made the universe in an instant, as some of the ancient philosophers thought. He could also still have been in the process of bringing it into being after 13.787±0.02 billion

Despite talk of 'emergency abortions,' under no condition would the mother's health benefit from the death of her unborn child.

During the debates over the ratification of the Constitution, Antifederalists repeatedly warned that the President would become like a king - and the worst kind of a king - an elected one.

Members of Congress are besides themselves over the testimony of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle regarding the near-assassination of former president Trump. They are upset that Cheatle was unable to provide them with adequate explanations as to what appears to be incompetence at best and willful blindness, conscious indifference, or…

CrowdStrike released a Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) on the faulty Falcon update explaining that a bug allowed bad data to pass its Content Validator and cause millions of Windows systems to crash on July 19, 2024.

State of the Union: Senator Vance is correct—sometimes we ought to stay out of conflicts that are none of our business.

This guide details creating a secure Linux production system. OpenSCAP (C2S/CIS, STIG). - trimstray/the-practical-linux-hardening-guide

Simple checklist to help you deploying the most important areas of the GNU/Linux production systems - work in progress. - trimstray/linux-hardening-checklist

While J.D. Vance has his own controversies, his close connection to billionaire Peter Thiel, who is poised to have unprecedented influence in a new Trump administration, should deeply unsettle every American who cares about freedom, privacy and reining in the surveillance state.

‘Today, there’s only three companies that control global access to internet trade and commerce,’ a tech analyst said.

Advocates of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and Digital ID systems should consider these lessons...

"By making policy the focus of presidential elections, Americans have weakened the foundations of our government. The genius of the Constitution is that it protects Americans from the power of the majority. Now that our rights are up for debate every four years, it’s no wonder that we’re losing so many of them."

David Gordon reviews William Hogeland's "The Hamilton Scheme" and finds some accounts close to what Mises Institute President Tom DiLorenzo wrote about

In the thirty years since the end of the Cold War, conservatives of various stripes have, with decidedly mixed results, sought to shape the parameters of the national debate over the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. These include such foreign policy blueprints as the Wolfowitz Doctrine (1992); the Project for the New American Century’s “Rebuilding…

"So although we take our stand in different ways with different theological underpinnings, we stand together with St. Augustine, who only finds the Roman bishop authoritative so long as he conforms to Holy Scripture. And as it is defined by the Athanasian Creed (Quicunque Vult), catholicity is not demonstrated by any particular bishopric or bureaucracy, but by the confession of the catholic faith as articulated in, as Augustine puts it, “the sacred scriptures.” And in the Athanasian Creed, this biblical, catholic faith is found centered on the confession of the Most Holy Trinity, and the two natures - and the work and ministry of - our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ."

As evidence mounts about the dangers of smartphone use, the number of parents refusing to give their children smartphones is growing. 

The return to a Taft-lite American foreign policy in Europe is a much needed change.

Worst of all is that most of it's legal

We live in an empire of lies, propped up by the mainstream media. And seeking the truth in this empire of lies is the greatest challenge for us in the moral bankruptcy in which we live.

Throughout suburban America each day teams of roofers are replacing old shingles with new on house roofs. Carrying tools and building materials, they move and work with sure footedness approaching that of mountain goats, and typically without the use of safety ropes to prevent falls. These workers came to mind…

"Unity in the hands of most politicians is a word that should send shivers down one’s spine. Political unity means bipartisanship, the triumph of the regime. National unity gave us the New Deal, the Civil Rights Act, the Patriot Act, and the Iraq War, among other disasters. It is wrapped up in the state’s most powerful propaganda, usually some form of paternal patriotism."

"It should also give us pause that the closest Trump came to a “unity” moment during his first term was the nation’s response to covid-19, resulting in the canonization of Fauci and prompting the greatest wealth transfer in modern history."

The pro-life cause has been sidelined by the Republican Party. This undermines the battle for life.

In his tome Icons of Christ, William G Witt compiles a great list of arguments against Christian priestesses and sets out to refute them all. Reviewing this book has recently become considerably easier, because Witt has declared what he believes is the most important part of his book. He did this because another reviewer for...

Happy Independence Day to our American readers!

Last week, Julian Assange was freed and the Chevron doctrine was overturned. These are huge wins for liberty. Not long ago, they felt completely out of reach.

Back in December of 2020, then United Staes President Donald Trump was touting the supposed great accomplishment of his Operation Warp Speed quickly producing coronavirus “vaccines.” Trump and politicians, bureaucrats, and media members at the national, state, and local level then did everything they could to maximize the number of…

The Picasso Museum in Paris has released a digital portal featuring the Spanish painter and sculptor's art

Wyoming ranchers applauded Tractor Supply's decision to eliminate DEI roles, quit sponsoring LGBTQ pride festivals, and drop carbon goals after a…

The Texas Rangers are staying loyal to their fans by declining to celebrate 'pride night,' despite pressure from media.

But it can readily be judged that nothing would serve better to maintain the dignity of ceremonies, and to nourish reverence and pious devotion among the people than if the ceremonies were observed rightly in the churches.

When a warplane monopoly shatters, it can seed a bunch of successful efforts to replace it. That’s what happened in the 1960s with the F-111. What are the chances it will happen now that the AIr Force is discussing developing a new, affordable lightweight fighter?

We were told the Osprey, LCS, and F-35 were cutting edge. But they turned out to be boondoggles and deathtraps.

‘It was blatantly unconstitutional, and the country may come to regret the Court’s failure to say so,’ Alito wrote in his dissent.

Unless we presume politicians have a divine right to deceive the governed, America should honor individuals who expose federal crimes.

The GOP’s flirtation with pulling up the federal restriction plank underlines the post-Dobbs crisis.

Alex Pertsev, a developer of Tornado Cash, has been sentenced to prison by a Dutch court for helping build a platform that guarantees financial privacy.

A pastor run out of his native Canada for protesting lockdowns is now president of a classical college in Wyoming.

I would encourage everyone to take a look at this video and consider how much overlap there is with our own contemporary American context of confessional Lutheranism.