Male and Female: Shouldn’t Different Sexes Mean Different Sports Competitions?
In many sports, at all levels, we have separate men's and women's (and boys' and girls') competitions.
There are only two coherent positions (1) abolish separate men’s and women’s competitions and teams and let women (try) to compete with men in all sports; or (2) separate the sexes in athletics by, well, *sex*–a biological category–not by “gender” or “gender identity.” In many sports, at all levels, we have separate men’s and... Continue Reading
Opposing Modern History’s Most Persistent Bad Idea: 5 Ways Marxism Is Influencing Us Today
Marx’s ideas never work but remain perennially popular for the young and the naive.
If we could get people off the drug of paradisical statism, we would help them tremendously, queueing them up to appreciate the free market, free speech, free governments, and a free church. In yet simpler terms, we would liberate them—at least for now—from the clutches of history’s most persistent bad idea: Marxism. Karl Marx’s... Continue Reading
Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America
“My responsibilities as a black man, as an American, and as an intellectual are not in conflict.” I defend this position as best I can in what follows.
The invocation of “structural racism” in political argument is both a bluff and a bludgeon. It is a bluff in the sense that it offers an “explanation” that is not an explanation at all and, in effect, dares the listener to come back. So, for example, if someone says, “There are too many blacks in... Continue Reading
Suicide Risk and Gender Transition: The Facts
The “threat” of suicide is being used against responsible leaders trying to protect children from risks associated with gender transition procedures.
Suicide should never be used as a tool, by any group, to strong-arm policymakers and the psychological and medical communities into both allowing and providing questionable practices that have somehow gained a monopoly on “standards of care” for gender dysphoria. Especially when those practices involve onboarding children, who have not fully developed physiologically, psychologically, and... Continue Reading
What Does “Demisexual” Say about Christian Hope?
It’s difficult to keep up with these new identifications and all the rules governing them. Someone recently suggested, perhaps we should just change the acronym to “LGBTQ-TBA”
We must be prepared also to offer the far better vision of identity, love, sex, and friendship found in the Christian account of reality. To not offer the better way of the Gospel would be heartless and foolish. Not only do we have a better story to tell, but the timing is right. This late... Continue Reading
Why Wokeness is a Christian Heresy
Christianity is the sole historical source of concepts now taken for granted: human dignity, human equality, and universal human rights.
Wokeness is built on a worldview without salvation and offers an eschatology with no real hope. Though the proclaimed goal is to end oppression, it’s what the late sociologist Philip Rieff called a “deathwork,” dedicated to tearing down things but unable to build, or offer, anything better. Advocates of critical race theory, for example, argue... Continue Reading
A Landmark Civil Rights Lawsuit
Private litigation against critical race theory in Evanston public schools is necessary because the Biden administration won't enforce federal law as written.
The Biden administration’s abdication of equal protection is why legislation known as “critical race theory bans” are necessary. Passed in a number of states, these bills do not, by and large, directly target curricula. Rather, they tend to prohibit CRT-inspired pedagogy that creates what should be universally recognizable as a racially hostile learning environment: promotion... Continue Reading
The RTS Professor Against Social Justice
Social justice, then, confuses different conceptions of justice, of merit, chases after an undeserved and jealous-based equality that never leads to equality, but only tyranny.
Dr. Ronald Nash spent much of his academic career assessing and critiquing social justice. After years of research he offers three arguments against the growing cancer: 1. It is reductionistic and far too simplistic in its formula 2. It invariably chokes freedom and life from society and 3. Social justice inevitably gives power and money... Continue Reading
The Beautiful Meaning of Marital Sexual Intimacy
Since marital intimacy is holistic, the marriage bed can offer a good indication of how the marriage-wide intimacy is faring.
In the end, the beauty of complementary, life-uniting intimacy should progressively develop in quality and skill over the fifty years or more after saying “I do.” Fifty years later, not only will the gospel reenacting husband and wife have become more skilled covenant renewers, their whole lives and not just their creaking bodies will display... Continue Reading
Christians Create In Response to Creation
Don’t create to draw attention to yourself. Use your creative energy to draw other people’s gaze to the glory of God.
Christians can create in countless ways beyond flower arranging, painting, and poetry. These are just examples to give you ideas for how you might respond to God’s creation. Certainly enjoying nature and praising God for it is a good first step. But God is glorified not only when you enjoy His creation, but when you take... Continue Reading
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