I first became aware of Fentanyl a few years ago as part of an “end of life” question in hospital. There I was told that Fentanyl is a powerful, even dangerous drug and everything I have seen since supports that view. Police officers and other first responders now must carry NARCAN in their vehicles to... Continue Reading

“Patients can experience moral conflict when they seek abortion and they believe that life begins at conception and that abortion is an act of murder,” reads a section in the chapter “Pregnancy Option Counseling Techniques” in “Early Abortion Training Workbook,” published by the university’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, according to The College Fix.   The University... Continue Reading

It starts in the womb, in places like India and China, where boys are valued more than girls for reasons of religion, family, and economics. This leads to girls being aborted at alarming rates. In other countries, we see the practice of female genital mutilation to assure sexual purity for marriage.   As a theologian... Continue Reading

According to religious liberty scholar Thomas Berg, law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, the Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling opposes outright religious hostility but offers little indication on how future cases would pan out in different contexts. “This is a narrow, fact-based ruling, resting on two sorts of indicators that the Colorado state... Continue Reading

Borrowing from the work of Charles Taylor, James K.A. Smith speaks about expressive individualism when he writes, “Emerging from the Romantic expressionism of the late eighteenth century, it is an understanding ‘that each one of us has his/her own way of realizing our humanity,’ and that we are called to live that out (‘express’ it) rather than... Continue Reading

Can you spot the problem? If gender is a social construct, then playing with dolls and preferring pink instead of blue doesn’t count as evidence of some individuals having a different gender identity than their biological sex. Assuming what the transgender community would have us believe about gender as a social construct, dolls and pinkness... Continue Reading

The sweeping legislation would make “advertising, offering to engage in, or engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with an individual” unlawful and a form of consumer fraud, if the effort is connected with the sale of goods or services. Those “efforts” include any discussion of changing behavior or even seeking to reduce same-sex attraction.  ... Continue Reading

Porn is everywhere, and the research is grim. States are lining up to declare it a public health hazard, and while a handful of people might mock the wave of legislation, Americans on both sides of the aisle are realizing: this is an actual catastrophe. These sites, the same ones teaching kids a distorted and twisted... Continue Reading

Privilege-checking has its roots in academia (of course) but when it first emerged three decades ago it was a minority pursuit. Back in 1988, Peggy McIntosh, professor of women’s studies, wrote a paper called “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies.” In it, she... Continue Reading

“The number of births in the U.S. today is simply not enough by itself to keep the population stable,” Mosher said. Noting the fertility declines over the past three years were mostly among women under 30, Kasey Buckles, an economics professor at Notre Dame, said the data indicated the decrease most likely came from a drop... Continue Reading