“Every American, especially those who wear the uniform, should be allowed the religious liberties given by God and protected by our Constitution. We want to see dignity restored to our military personnel and no longer see the military used to promote social agendas. We hope the Democratic Party Platform Committee will take similar actions.”  ... Continue Reading

The appeals court decision lifts a temporary injunction that “called for the funding to continue pending an October trial on Planned Parenthood’s challenge to the law.” Texas may now implement its ban on clinics affiliated with abortion providers while the case is pending.   Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas will likely lose state funds following... Continue Reading

Wolfe said people in less religious states "view the tax money they're paying not as something that's forced upon them, but as a recognition that they belong with everyone else, that they're citizens in the common good. ... I think people here believe that when they pay their taxes, they're being altruistic."

The Huguenins are Christians who believe that God designed marriage as one man and one woman, and that defining marriage is the best way for societies to help children and adults. They could not in good conscience allow their company’s photography services to be used to promote the message of the ceremony – that it... Continue Reading

To throw someone under the bus” is defined as meaning “to sacrifice; to treat as a scapegoat; to betray,” but . . . the key to the phrase really lies in the element of utter betrayal, the sudden, brutal sacrifice of a stalwart and loyal teammate for a temporary and often minor advantage.”    ... Continue Reading

The Rev. Michael Keller, who grew up in Manhattan and who leads the Reformed University Fellowship City Campus ministry at Redeemer, said New York’s commodified approach to sex makes life more difficult for the abstinent. “If everyone else is using sex as something to consume, you will too,” he said.     Trinity Laurel moved... Continue Reading

Biola University and Grace College of Indiana on Thursday filed suit against the Obama administration and its contraceptive mandate. Now eleven colleges and universities have sued the federal government over the issue, including major schools like Wheaton College, the University of Notre Dame, and Catholic University. The federal government is facing 25 lawsuits across the... Continue Reading

I’m concerned that so many people seem willing to let others carry the supposed burden of vaccination so that they don’t have to. To me, that’s a failure of the commandment to love our neighbors: our infant neighbors, our elderly neighbors, and our immune-compromised neighbors. That’s a disease of the soul for which the only treatment is love—best shown in the God who became man to bear our infirmities in his own body.

So you need parental consent to contract a state-sanctioned marriage under the age of 18 in the U.S., but you, all by yourself, can give full consent to the irreversibility of sterilization at 15? Chances are, you do not even know your future spouse, yet you're already determining his or her fate as well?

We also neglect the theological doctrines that once breathed life into our democratic capitalistic system. Consider the incarnation, God born of a woman into political chaos and socioeconomic oppression. The incarnation of Jesus gives us hope in every possible circumstance, but guards us against false hope and utopian promises. I like the way Novak phrases it: "One of the most poignant lessons of the Incarnation is the difficult teaching that one must learn to be humble, think concretely, face facts, train oneself to realism."