The First Amendment and the Supreme Court
The court’s NRA decision gains importance.
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that government cannot use third parties to censor, cancel, or deplatform groups with which it disagrees. The court held that the National Rifle Association (NRA) plausibly alleged that New York’s Department of Financial Services head, Maria Vullo, had unlawfully pressured banks and other financial entities into debanking and stifling the NRA’s... Continue Reading
Idols in Our Midst
Christ, Caesar, or self: recognizing political idolatry – Part 1
Man is a worshipper who either worships the Creator-God, or Man worships what is not God, that which Paul characterizes as creation. And, when worship is false, that is, is directed toward the creation — idolatry results. The truth is exchanged for the lie. That false theology, according to Paul, correlates with unrighteous ethical conduct,... Continue Reading
What Is Transgenderism?
We must learn to be content in God and unsatisfied in the world as we define our identity in light of Scripture alone.
If transgenderism is related to the sin of envy, then genuine repentance can produce the virtue of contentment. Jeremiah Burroughs’ The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment helps us understand how contentment is the opposite of envy. Burroughs defines “contentment” as “the inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to and taking pleasure in God’s... Continue Reading
Why Is Darkness Settling over Our Land, and What Can We Do?
The one task that would bring advance for the kingdom of heaven is the unwavering, relentless sharing of the good news of Christ.
Our greatest offensive weapon (the one that will be used to win the day) is Word-driven prayer. ALL kinds of prayer, at ALL times, with ALL perseverance for ALL the saints. Why is prayer so effective? Prayer brings God into the equation, enlists the resources of heaven, and does what God can do. Satan’s hosts... Continue Reading
Why We Should All Struggle to Understand the Moral Consequences of IVF
The lack of suffering does not mean there is no sadness. Or no humanity.
Widespread endorsement of IVF emboldens an industry that prioritizes profit over people, adults’ selfish desires over children’s natural rights, quick fixes over long-term women’s health solutions, desirable traits above all, motherless and fatherless children, the erasure of women in reproduction, fertility fraud, and making human existence transactional. Renowned British-American columnist Andrew Sullivan made waves this weekend when he debuted an article grappling with the moral... Continue Reading
The Bible and Slavery
When someone brings up slavery as an excuse for rejecting the Bible as a reliable moral guide, I would recommend referring to the Apostle Paul’s commands to Christian masters (Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1).
Accepting what the Bible teaches on slavery does not mean condoning slavery as it was once practiced in America. Some, such as William Lloyd Garrison, assumed that it did and rejected the Bible altogether. Others didn’t go that far but did begin to regard their conscience as a more reliable guide to morality than the... Continue Reading
The “New” Antisemitism in America’s Universities
The antisemitic murder and mutilation spree in Israel and the antisemitic celebrations of it in America revealed to both Israeli and American Jews that despite their differences, they have a shared identity and a shared fate.
What is new about the “new” antisemitism is not the antisemitism, but the fact that it compels Jews to realize that they cannot escape their connection to Israel, because the attack against Zionism inevitably includes them. Israel’s enemies and Israel friends alike regard American Jews as Zionists. American Jews are thus made to understand that... Continue Reading
This Liberal Academic Wants Christians to Leave Politics to Leftists
Liberalism is not a neutral system but is really a totalizing ideology that will have no other gods before itself.
Lilla obviously is not objecting only to a small band of Catholic thinkers. Rather, he wants all Christians to give up and let self-admitted liberal failures like himself have their way in politics. But to take his advice would be a betrayal of both our citizenship and the love we ought to show to our... Continue Reading
A Speech to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 on a Christian Nation
Traveling back to July 4, 1787 to hear a proposed speech to the Constitutional Convention.
One purpose of the present language [on Article VI, Clause 3 on no religious tests] is to avoid a national church like the Church of England. All the states are opposed to a national church but not to a public recognition that this is a Christian nation. No denomination of the Christian Faith must rule... Continue Reading
Elon Musk Would Be Making a Disastrous Mistake to Allow Pornography on X
Turning X from the digital public square into a squalid pornography site would be a stunning collapse — and prove Musk’s critics right.
Some users have noted that pornography is already showing up more often on X, and that this new policy could open the floodgates. Musk has already responded to the backlash. When one user asked if there was an available function that could allow people to use X without being exposed to pornography, Musk personally replied,... Continue Reading
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