The New Secession Movement
States increasingly look to ban travel and business with other American locales.
It’s tempting these days to see a secessionist movement coming out of the sharp divide between Trump and Biden supporters. But long before Trump ran for office, back when Biden was a grandfatherly senator and later vice president, state officials began acting as if their colleagues in other states were the moral equivalent of leaders... Continue Reading
Elite Evangelicalism’s Allergy to Complementarianism
Are present day Evangelicals seeking approval from culture and selling their souls and theology for acceptance?
“I don’t know that evangelicals have been sufficiently self-reflective to admit their basic and personal insecurities. It’s just no fun being an outsider to mainstream culture. We all just want to be loved, and if not loved, at least liked and respected. Elite evangelicals are not just savvy evangelists but also a people striving for acceptance.” ~Mark... Continue Reading
A Response to David Cassidy’s ‘PCA At the Crossroads’
He thinks it unfair for others to call his faction progressives, but he is glad to intimate his opponents have “fundamentalist impulses.”
…that for the PCA to allow its ministers to teach their own doctrine alongside of its official doctrine would be to lay the groundwork of its own destruction as a confessional denomination, the assertion of multiple doctrines serving to engender confusion and to allow the official position on many matters to be crowded out by... Continue Reading
Critical Race Theory Distracts from Widespread Academic Underachievement
The real issue in American education is a failure to enable the majority of students—regardless of race—to achieve academic excellence or even, in many cases, basic skills.
Yes, debate critical race theory, but let’s keep our eyes on the prize. We should spend far more time in the pursuit of excellence—implementing reading instruction that would improve literacy outcomes for kids of all races. That would erase the stain of racism far more than endlessly debating critical race theory. With a new... Continue Reading
Saving Your Child From The Village
It used to be that it takes a village to save a child.
This is what totalitarianism means: the infiltration of politics (cultural and otherwise) into every aspect of life. In Huxley’s Brave New World, the Savage was the only sane person there because as an exile, he had been raised ignorant of the corrupt totalitarian culture and its values. I heard the other day about a family —... Continue Reading
Remote Learning Killed The Myth That Homeschooled Children Are The Ones Who Lack Socialization
For decades, the education establishment has used the need for socialization to argue that kids are better off in government-run schools than being taught at home.
Homeschooled children are certainly not immune from depression or other forms of mental illness, but their situation allows for greater social stability and positive interaction in the face of COVID-19. Their social circle is founded not on a massive faceless institution, but on the more intimate confines of the home and family. The greater degree... Continue Reading
Uncle Sam’s Hamartia = Your Early Death
Government agencies spend billions funding ways to kill you, or bleeding your wallet when you get sick, but precious little on how to keep you well.
If Tony Fauci et al really cared about Americans, they would have funded more studies about what enhances or inhibits natural immune response, not funded bat virus research in China. They would have tried to boost Americans’ overall health, not shut down gyms and force masks onto their faces. Most importantly of all, they would have left... Continue Reading
The Self-Malediction of “In Gay We Trust”
A malediction is to speak (diction) a curse (mal = bad), and that’s what the LGBTQers are doing. They are cutting off their future.
The Democratic Party has been pushing Planned Parenthood, abortion, and birth control. Big-name philanthropists are putting their money behind birth control efforts. Liberals have been pushing birth control and abortion for decades. While pro-abortion liberals are pushing the abortion and contraception wagon, Christian conservatives with their large families could dominate the culture in a generation... Continue Reading
The False Gospel of Cultural Marxism—Part 1
Paul alerts us to the fact that there is such a thing as a false gospel, one that is counterfeit of the real gospel that leaves people accursed.
Paul’s epistle to the Galatians was written to a specific church at a specific time and the fake gospel they were dealing with was also very specific: Judaizing. Notice, however, how Paul does not say, “this particular other gospel.” He rather says: any other gospel. This, I believe, allows us to apply his warning to... Continue Reading
The Black Death and the Ever-Present Judgment of God
It is oddly comforting to revisit past plagues, perhaps because it gives me greater perspective to see through the silliness of describing our current moment with a word like “unprecedented.”
Beyond the economic concerns are the religious questions that seep through the story from start to finish. Hatcher is wise to transport us to the medieval world of Christianity by making a priest the main character. Through the eyes of “Master John” and the stories of his parishioners, we learn how important it was to... Continue Reading
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