Damned be the Ties that Bind
Oregon Wants to Destroy the Family, Literally
The majority of Americans remains Christians, even at this late hour. It is depressing and demoralizing to realize that a state once founded on the “Natural right, to worship Almighty God” according to conscience now weaponizes the law against those who would raise children in the fear and admonition of that same God. William... Continue Reading
Review: “Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot”
Did God create the earth with functional maturity?
The book was an apologetic exercise in harmonizing the position that creation occurred several thousand years ago with the presence of geologic structures that seemingly suggested a longer timeframe. Although the book is quite long, the central premise is easy to describe. Gosse’s observations led him to believe that the mature forms of all natural... Continue Reading
Israel the Oppressor vs. Hamas the Oppressed: The Inverted World of Western Cultural Marxists (Part 2)
Whether they are willing to admit it or not, for Leftists, their Marxist oppressor-oppressed ideology is their righteous cause, their essential religious belief system notwithstanding the formal religion with which they may identify.
Significant as the combat is between Hamas and Israel, more crucial is the battle for the mind and heart of billions. This is why I have devoted such close and extensive attention to understanding and explaining the true war that is being waged between two antithetical worldviews, the biblical-Christian view and the anti-Christ view which... Continue Reading
Christianity and Civilisation: Science
Science as we know it today would not be the same without its Christian roots.
“Some religions, like Judaism have made many contributions to the civilised world. Others have been much less involved in Western progress. As [historian Rodney] Stark and others have demonstrated, only those religions that have had a place for reason and logic have had a real impact on science, progress and technology. The Judeo-Christian worldview certainly... Continue Reading
What Counts as “Religion”?
Religious liberty is never absolute religious liberty. And yet it is worth preserving because religious language aims—ultimately—at saying true things.
Treating religious claims as strictly experiential-expressive can help carve out a space for religious free exercise, over against its cultured despisers. But this is a profoundly unstable space. For one thing, it generally abandons the possibility of giving a normative account of the good of religion as such. One can point to the meaningfulness of... Continue Reading
Motherhood Myth Busting
Why second and third wave feminism has caused millennial women to dread having children, and God’s beautiful path to parenthood.
Women have been led to believe that having children will destroy the possibility of fulfillment and happiness. This narrative is so dominant that many women feel stigma from finding any joy in motherhood. Cohen described as much in a remarkable section of her Vox piece: “When I started asking women about their experiences as mothers,... Continue Reading
Myths We’re Told about Politics
The two sides are not the same.
While those siding with the left’s narrative of church and politics point to evidence that Americans have a general, theoretical preference for religious leaders to avoid politics,11 when the question becomes practical, few notice it in their own congregation, let alone find it bothersome. When the Pew Research Center asked Americans attending church services at... Continue Reading
Will New York Force Chick-fil-A to Open on Sundays?
We should not be surprised when remaining faithful to our God in heaven brings us into conflict with those who would seek to take his place of influence here on earth.
I bring this story up today less because the potential plight of hungry New Yorkers warrants our consideration than because the way that Chick-fil-A has handled this and other controversies offers us a helpful reminder of what it looks like to stand for Christ in a way that honors our Lord without compromising our Christian... Continue Reading
Bishops around the World Are Divided over Vatican’s Same-Sex Blessing Declaration
In at least three countries — Kazakhstan, Malawi, and Zambia — Church leaders are refusing to implement the Vatican declaration in any way.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement that highlighted the “distinction between liturgical (sacramental) blessings and pastoral blessings” and said: “The Church’s teaching on marriage has not changed, and this declaration affirms that, while also making an effort to accompany people through the imparting of pastoral blessings because each of us needs... Continue Reading
The Pope, Same Sex Blessings, and Protestants
The argument will be that, if Rome can change, why can we all not change?
There are two kinds of leaders: those who see their role as remaking their organizations in their own image, regardless of the collateral damage done to those further down the totem pole; and those who seek to protect the interests of the weakest and most vulnerable of those dependent upon them. Throughout his papacy, Francis... Continue Reading
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