Election years tend to incite fevered reactions because it seems as though everything is at stake. There’s much at stake, to be sure, but we should put it in a trillion-year perspective that can allow us not to panic. No one and nothing will take our country away from us—if we define correctly what we... Continue Reading

The authors called this effect “ego depletion” and said it revealed a fundamental fact about the human mind: We all have a limited supply of willpower, and it decreases with overuse. Eating a radish when you’re surrounded by fresh-baked cookies represents an epic feat of self-denial, and one that really wears you out. Willpower, argued... Continue Reading

Sen. Abiodun Olujimi presented the Gender Parity and Prohibition of Violence against Women bill during the Senate’s plenary session. The bill focused on prohibiting all sorts of violence against women and eliminating gender-based discrimination in politics, education, employment, and marriages. “Widows shall not be subjected to inhuman, humiliating, or degrading treatment,” the bill stated. “A... Continue Reading

I posed this question to him: “Dr. Schaeffer, what is your biggest concern for the future of the church in America?” Without hesitation, Dr. Schaeffer turned to me and spoke one word: “Statism.” Schaeffer’s biggest concern at that point in his life was that the citizens of the United States were beginning to invest their... Continue Reading

“The transgender lobbying organization ‘Freedom Massachusetts’ is backed by dozens of insurance companies, law firms, big banks and San Francisco tech companies trying to force their values on all of us,” according to the Massachusetts Family Institute, which is also fighting the bill. But Ryan says the teachers unions’ support calls into question the underlying... Continue Reading

“For years people have been discussing the issue of pornography from a moral perspective—right and wrong,” said Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), the organization that drafted the bill. “But while that is still important, what’s changed now is there is a plethora of research showing pornography has long-lasting... Continue Reading

Speaking to reporters in Washington that morning, Kerry said he had completed his review and determined that Christians, Yazidis, and Shiite groups are victims of genocide and crimes against humanity by ISIS militants. “In my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in territory under its control,” Kerry said, using the Arabic acronym for... Continue Reading

Charlotte’s city council passed the divisive ordinance in February to update rules for local businesses. The update, which would have taken effect on April 1, added gay, lesbian, and transgender classifications to existing non-discrimination provisions for race, age, religion, and gender. McCrory quickly vowed to intervene. The push from North Carolina’s Republican leadership highlights old... Continue Reading

“Our city is in pain today,” said Deal, founding pastor of The Well, a church that meets in four ethnic neighborhoods in Brussels, including near his home in Schaerbeek. Deal also directs Serve the City, an evangelical ministry that began years ago as an outreach of the church and now operates independently, serving homeless and,... Continue Reading

“The idea that a lost world of paganism, bubbling under the thin veneer of Christian practices and traditions that had supplanted–even copied–it, had become firmly rooted in popular culture.”   In the late nineteenth century, a Cambridge scholar sat at his desk and wove a brilliant story about comparative religious practices. “ALL over Europe,” he... Continue Reading