The Empirical Case against “Conversion-Therapy” Bans
A compassionate approach to trauma requires that individuals ought to be able to access therapy, in order to explore the relationship of adverse experiences to their sexuality.
A compassionate approach to trauma requires that individuals ought to be able to access therapy, in order to explore the relationship of these adverse experiences to their sexuality. Currently a bill to ban “conversion therapy” is being considered in the Canadian Senate (Bill C-8), as well as in multiple states in the US. Unfortunately, in most... Continue Reading
New Chief Chaplain At Harvard University Is An Atheist
Author Greg Epstein, the 44-year-old writer of "Good Without God," is the Ivy League university's new chaplain.
“Described as a ‘godfather to the [humanist] movement’ by the New York Times Magazine, Epstein was also named ‘one of the top faith and moral leaders in the United States’ by Faithful Internet, a project coordinated by the United Church of Christ with assistance from the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, for... Continue Reading
Ryan Anderson on Gender Ideology and Taking on the “Woke Elite”
Parents need to realize that “LGBT” content is flooding the public schools, not just in coursework, but in the school culture.
Policymakers should do everything in their power to legally prevent the promotion of a harmful ideology, especially as directed to children. Just as citizens have rightly pushed back on critical race theory being mandated in K-12 schools, so, too, should we push back on the various transgender-ideology mandates taking place in public schools. Last... Continue Reading
France Moves to Ban Homeschooling: “Protect Children From Religion”
French President Emmanuel Macron said the government would inspect private schools and strongly enforce a new law that requires teaching a "common core” defined by the state.
Although the President said he intends to end the system that allows Imams to train overseas, some have suggested he may be using “radical Islam” to garner public support for the move which would simultaneously undermine the freedoms and rights of Christian parents. French President Emmanuel Macron has announced on Friday his intention to... Continue Reading
American Protestants and Conservative Politics: A Q&A with Dr. Gillis J. Harp
Some will be surprised at how Christian conservatives in early American history look very different from conservatives of the past 20 years.
One is a major change in the understanding of what constituted authentic conservatism. This transformation occurred during the final couple decades of the 19th century. Political scientist Clinton Rossiter referred to it as the “Great Train Robbery” of American intellectual history wherein leading conservatives switched to embrace classical liberal ideas of economic laissez-faire. Editor’s... Continue Reading
43K Nigerian Christians Killed, 18K Disappeared in Last 12 Years: NGO Report
More Christians are killed in Nigeria than anywhere else globally.
Human rights activists have warned Nigeria is headed toward Christian “genocide” if global action is not taken quickly. A Nigerian civil society organization estimates around 43,000 Christians have been killed by Nigerian Islamic radicals in the last 12 years, while 18,500 have permanently disappeared and 17,500 churches have been attacked. The Anambra-based International Society for Civil... Continue Reading
Guided by Faith, Divinity Student Fought His ‘Anti-Racist’ Princeton Seminary — and Won
Princeton Seminary’s concept of justice clashed with Keiderling’s conscience when PTS required him to attend “anti-racism” training sessions that he considered a form of indoctrination.
Keiderling’s case matters because – at a time when critical race theory and anti-racism training are routinely described in the media as benign ways to encourage meaningful conversations – his experience opens a window into the often coercive and radical nature of those efforts. His willingness to push back against being told what he must... Continue Reading
Transition as Treatment: The Best Studies Show the Worst Outcomes
Many children and adolescents are being diagnosed with gender dysphoria, are undergoing medical treatment prior even to completing puberty; objections are met with: “Trust the experts.” If you don’t, “you’re a bigot.”
Given that treatment of gender dysphoria currently includes such drastic measures as the removal of healthy, functioning body parts, the protracted and experimental use of cross-sex hormones, and the permanent circumvention of the normal pubertal process, this is nothing short of scandalous. The treatment for this particular disorder is severe: lifelong experimental medicalization, sterilization, and complete... Continue Reading
Will the Sexual Revolution Crash And Burn–Or Is The Worst Yet To Come?
When sexual energy is not channeled towards marital monogamy, it is diffused uselessly outwards.
The Sexual Revolution has liberated everyone from the very things that make us happy—commitment, self-sacrificial love, children, family—and it has convinced us that those very things were the source of our misery. It is gaslighting on a civilizational scale, and it cannot last. In 1934, Oxford anthropologist J.D. Unwin published his mammoth magnum opus Sex... Continue Reading
The UMC’s Drag Queen Clergy Candidate
Vermillion River District Committee on Ordained Ministry (DCOM) has recently unanimously approved Isaac Simmons, an openly gay man and publicly practicing drag queen, as a candidate for ministry.
While Isaac Simmons’s case is an exception to the norm in many ways, the post-separation United Methodist Church is headed for a future where we can expect such clergy candidates will be affirmed. With the United Methodist Church’s recently announcing its General Conference would be rescheduled, further examples of the denomination’s rift over human sexuality... Continue Reading
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