And So It Begins. What Was Predicted on Assisted Dying Has Come to Pass
Despite all the current rhetoric from those who support assisted dying and the terms on which they want to bring it in, history tells us that is not where it will stay.
If you want to see how liberalism is wrecking everything, this is it writ large. Don’t think I mean “liberal” like America uses it. I mean hyper-individualist liberalism. Neoliberals, driven by nothing but economic output, salivate over this stuff. Matthew Parris said quite bluntly, it is time we realised economically useless lives should end and... Continue Reading
Solzhenitsyn at Harvard: A Graduation Speech to Remember
Soviet dissident Nobel Prize winner had prophetic words for America.
Solzhenitsyn pointed to the lack of great statesmen as evidence of cultural collapse. While there were, he said, courageous individuals worthy of respect, consider how differently greatness was defined in the past. One rightly wonders what Solzhenitsyn would think about who is called “hero” and what is called “historic” today. A few years ago, for... Continue Reading
Honorable Conduct in the “Negative World”
Crenshaw has decided that America in 2024 is analogous to Jericho in redemptive history and worse than first-century Rome.
Perhaps Crenshaw thinks Biden’s America is more of a “negative world” than Nero’s Rome and that the New Testament’s normative expectations of Christian behavior therefore do not apply. Or perhaps he thinks New Testament ethical teaching represents a kind of slave morality in our current political moment. If so, QED. The conclusion of Crenshaw’s article is,... Continue Reading
No, It’s Still Not Right
Twenty years later, you still cannot redefine marriage.
Same-sex marriage has also fueled the redefinition and imagination around how we conceive of family structure and how children are to be brought into this world. While a child with two moms or two dads may seem commonplace now, nature persists in telling us that it is unnatural. Children need moms and dads in conjoined... Continue Reading
This, Too, Could Pass: Christian Group’s Rule Keeping Beaches Closed on Sunday Mornings May End
The Sunday morning beach closures dismay some but delight others.
“I feel less comfortable because of the imposition of their religion on everybody that lives here,” Bernstein said. Referring to images of a cross on the badges people are required to purchase in order to use the beach, she said, “I’m Jewish; I don’t wear crosses.” The association did not respond to repeated requests for an... Continue Reading
Foster Children: The New Pawn in the Gender Wars
A foster-care regulation from the Biden administration conditions federal funds on support for a child’s transgender identity.
Emerging evidence suggests that “social transition” may interfere with the natural resolution of gender dysphoria and greatly increase the chances that a passing phase becomes the basis for lifelong and potentially harmful medical interventions. The Cass Review alludes to this possibility, emphasizing that social transition is “an active intervention because it may have significant effects on... Continue Reading
How Pop Nietzscheanism Masquerades as Christianity
Pastoral ministry goes on, day to day, year to year, whatever the political officer class, right and left, are debating.
The threat to religious liberty remains and has indeed expanded, but a new one has also emerged: the temptation to combat this by fusing Christianity with worldly forms of power and worldly ways of achieving the same. For want of a better term, it’s a kind of pop Nietzscheanism that uses the idioms of Christianity.... Continue Reading
Target Audience
A geofencing controversy highlights growing efforts to silence pro-life activism in the digital space.
It’s become much more challenging for pregnancy resource centers to advertise on Google and Yelp, with the latter even requiring consumer alerts notifying searchers that pregnancy resource centers do not provide abortions. Trudden said Heartbeat International hasn’t been able to advertise its abortion pill rescue network on Google since the platform deemed it “misinformation” in... Continue Reading
Why “Deconstruction” Isn’t the Right Word
Putting the right perspective on the trending term.
The problem with the word deconstruction, at the risk of committing an etymological fallacy, is that it carries the philosophical baggage of postmodernism, particularly the denial that truth can be known. It also carries the assumption of permanent doubt and the skepticism of authority. That’s why, when applied to Christian faith, so much deconstruction is... Continue Reading
The NFL’s Condemnation of Harrison Butker Exemplifies the Left’s Anti-Christian Bigotry
If you just want to be left alone, to live and let live, you need to understand that the left is not going to allow that.
Anti-Christian, and especially anti-Catholic, bigotry is the last acceptable prejudice in America. For such people, there can be only one faith in post-Christian America. They are not going to share a republic with people like Butker, and will do whatever they can to silence, deplatform, and discredit every prominent Christian who stands against them. At the same... Continue Reading
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