DEI’s “Grape-Nuts problem”
The University of Florida jettisons its DEI office—and more of us should, too.
DEI delivers the opposite of what it promises. It delivers not diversity but a narrow ideology. It delivers not equity but different advantages and disadvantages based on pre-judged hierarchical group identities. It delivers not inclusion but the systemic coercion and exclusion of those who dare question its methods. On March 1, the University of... Continue Reading
Resetting Global Anglicanism as Reformed and Catholic
For Anglicans Scripture is not the only authority in the church or the Christian life, but it is the final and highest authority, governing other authorities.
The Global Anglican Future Conference and the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches–which combined represent an estimated 85% of Anglicans worldwide in predominately non-Western countries–gathered in April of 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda to produce the Kigali Commitment, which has urged the leadership of the Church of England to repent, and called for a significant reset... Continue Reading
It Eventually Comes to This
A prominent LGBTQ activist now faces blowback from the left.
In an embedded conference lecture, delivered last fall, Vines warns that the goals of queer theorists are at odds with the goals of the Reformation Project. “We don’t need to ‘queer’ the Bible,” he says. “We just need to interpret it more accurately and faithfully. And we don’t need to ‘queer’ the church.” Where the... Continue Reading
Woeful Woke Wonders Weakening the West
Now even this classic pic is verboten.
In the 2005 interview, Zimmer said, “It was just somebody really celebrating. But it wasn’t a romantic event. It was just an event of ‘thank God the war is over’ kind of thing. It wasn’t that much of a kiss, it was more of a jubilant act that he didn’t have to go back, she... Continue Reading
The Left’s Convenient Scapegoat
Hyperbolic attacks on “Christian nationalism” do nothing to make our country less polarized.
The notion that white evangelicals as a group are more desirous of political power than other religious groups is simply a myth. So why all the attention to white evangelicals instead of other politically active religious and non-religious groups? The shock of Trump’s victory in 2016 sent much of the media and academia looking for a... Continue Reading
Alabama Supreme Court, Embryos, and the Confusing Ethics of IVF
Some moral clarity for an industry that has been an ethical Wild West.
In the Alabama case, the court established that the moral nature of an embryo gives it the same legal protections as a born human under the state’s “wrongful death” statute. Why, then, should the same embryos not be afforded protection from imprisonment, trafficking, experimentation, and eventual destruction? Strictly speaking, IVF can be done in a way... Continue Reading
Wordsmithing Versus Reality
Abortion Is a Death, Always, not a Birth
The University of Notre Dame—a “private research university inspired by its Catholic character to be a powerful force for good in the world”—invited an abortion doula to guest lecture. Never mind that doulas usually help women usher their children into the world, now they usher in death. It gets worse. The guest speaker referred to abortion as... Continue Reading
Divine Rights
Do our freedoms come from the state?
The founders insisted that our rights are derived from God. If our rights are derived merely from state diktat then they can be taken away by the state under any pretext (or none at all). It is obviously the case that our rights can be taken from us even when we acknowledge that they come... Continue Reading
The Useful Delusion of Christian Belief
My father fails to see that his love of the law is ungrounded (and therefore unfounded) as an atheist.
Steinrucken rejects the claims of “religionists”, even as he enjoys the world they have created. “The fact is, we secularists gain much from living in a world in which excesses are held in check by religion. Religion gives society a secure and orderly environment within which we secularists can safely play out our creativities. Free and... Continue Reading
Not Whether, but Which
On the civilizational nature of the confessional Christian College.
The question is not whether a college or university should be civilizational, but rather which sort of civilization it ought to cultivate and how that project can be pursued most effectively. Although the cultural fragmentation of our age has rendered these questions highly contested within the secular academy, the answers are far more straightforward in... Continue Reading
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