This is tax season. People will be preparing their income taxes for the first time under the 2017 tax cuts. Some early filers were outraged that their tax refunds are going to be lower than last year. Social media was fired up with complaints that
This is tax season. People will be preparing their income taxes for the first time under the 2017 tax cuts. Some early filers were outraged that their tax refunds are going to be lower than last year. Social media was fired up with complaints that
As Democrats fall off the deep end, some progressives are saying that unlimited abortion on demand has to be the key, defining issue for progressivism. Not economics, not the environment, not social justice, but aborting babies. Unborn, viable, being born, already born–it doesn’t matter. Progressives
Even many pro-lifers concede that an abortion might be justified in order to save the life of the mother. The reasoning is that in such rare tragic dilemmas, either the mother or the child will die, so it is morally legitimate to choose which one
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I love this season of the church year, which is odd because it is a time for self-denial and repentance. I try to observe all of that, painful though it be, and yet I love Lent. This
As the Mueller investigation draws to a close, perhaps not living up to Democrats’ expectations, the House of Representatives is starting an even bigger investigation of President Trump. Led by New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the investigation will
One by one, our sexual taboos have been falling. According to our pop culture, premarital sex is now the norm. What used to be called “self-abuse” is served by the vast world of internet pornography. Sadomasochism has become the topic of best-selling romance novels.
Researchers have attempted to quantify the sinfulness of the various states in the union. Yes, this is absurd, as if one could measure the depravity of the human heart. But the methodology, the findings, and the rankings are interesting nonetheless. The researchers measured “Anger &
I’m in a reading group that just finished discussing Luther’s Two Kinds of Righteousness. Friends, you have got to read this brief tract based on one of Luther’s sermons from 1519. It’s from the early days of the Reformation, two years after the 95 Theses
Title X of the Public Health Service Act pays for birth control for low income and uninsured women. The program, started in the Nixon administration in 1970, is currently budgeted for $286.5 million for this year (down from a high of $317 million in 2010). Between
As we blogged about, the United Methodists have been meeting in a special General Conference in St. Louis to decide on their teachings on homosexuality. The vote Tuesday was to uphold the traditional position, not allowing same-sex weddings or non-celibate gay clergy! The traditional option
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