Are We the Bad Guys?
Reflections on Churchill.
It’s easier, in a sense, to accept that we were never morally good and never civilizationally great than it is to accept that we had something great, and we squandered it. But that’s the truth. Two inconceivably destructive World Wars destroyed Europe’s soul, killed off many of its best men, and devastated the old aristocracies.... Continue Reading
It’s Better to Be Respected Than Liked
Popularity is often simply a reflection of our willingness to compromise. Let’s do better than that.
While it may be easy to embrace the beliefs of others to gain approval, we know the courageous path requires us to point others to the truth, even when it’s inconvenient or unpopular. It’s time for the Church to take this second path. We’ve spent far too much time trying to become like the world... Continue Reading
The IVF Gendercide
The growing U.S. trend to select girls over boys.
Parenthood is widely seen as a consumerist activity. Children are viewed in the same way as pets or plants. They are objects to be acquired rather than persons whose intrinsic dignity must be respected. For many parents, children exist to serve their happiness, whether to be a parent’s “bestie” or to fulfill their parent’s hopes... Continue Reading
Let Boys Be Boys
Fragile feminist boymoms misdiagnose the problem.
Wherever you want to lay the blame for the disintegration of male and female relationships—the industrial revolution, the sexual revolution, the tech revolution, the invention of the birth control pill, the legalization of abortion, any moment will do well enough—the point is that women have been trying to redress their grievances without facing the spiritual... Continue Reading
Kentucky Dem Gov Bans ‘Conversion Therapy’ For ‘LGBTQ+ Youth’
Critics say the order “will hurt children, trample the fundamental rights of Kentucky parents, and suppress free religious expression.”
Allowed under the law is any therapy that is either “neutral” regarding “sexual orientation or gender identity” or helps “facilitates an individual’s coping, social support, and identity exploration and development, so long as such practice, treatment, or intervention does not seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.” Critics say the order undermines... Continue Reading
Imbedded Deceit in Florida Amendment 4
While we should vote “no” to this amendment, we can’t stop there. The opportunities to bless our cities go well beyond voting.
Doesn’t a woman have the right to choose what happens to her body? Yes, to an extent. But none of us can legally do whatever we want with our bodies. U.S. laws prevent organ sales, public nudity, and prostitution. We also aren’t only talking about the mother’s body. We’re talking about the baby’s body inside... Continue Reading
Curriculum Battle in Texas
The Lone Star State strikes the right balance in bringing the Bible into the public schools.
Richard Land, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said it well, “You should never want the state to be deciding what is the correct understanding of religion. The last thing any devout follower of Jesus should want is government control of religion. The government will always get it wrong... Continue Reading
Children and Bad Therapy
Our kids need good parenting, not ‘experts’ and endless medication.
Really loving your child might well mean telling the experts to get out of the way – or telling the drug pushers to butt out because there might be better ways to proceed. And good parenting will often mean just letting our kids be kids: letting them learn by trial and error, by failure, by... Continue Reading
Why I Do Not Use the Word Ethnicity
The four common marks of a biblical nation are a common birth, a common border, a common language, and a common religion.
To pursue this objective the word nation was replaced by the word ethnicity. But it won’t work! It may have some success in Christian families, in the church were members of various nations all change their allegiance to Christ, and it may have some success within a common geographical boundary where the Ten Commandments of... Continue Reading
The Christian Nationalist Panic
Though I have held out hope that the “Christian nationalism” discourse would start to die down as its shortcomings became evident, I presently see no signs of such relief.
Christianity should not only influence what we support but also how we engage in the political sphere, namely, in a spirit of humility, charity, and good-faith deliberation. Christians should reject Christian nationalism, but not allow the moral panic surrounding it to shame them out of fully engaging in the public square, and doing so as... Continue Reading
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