The Roman Catholic Church has been shaken by revelations of rampant sexual abuse among its clergy. Now the Southern Baptist Church is being shaken by a similar scandal. The Houston Chronicle has uncovered 380 church workers–pastors, but also youth ministers, Sunday School teachers, and other
The Democratic primary is being conducted in a new climate, that of identity politics, intersectionality, and the necessity to be “woke” (that is, to be sensitive to every nuance of privilege and oppression). Thus we are already seeing from nearly every candidate a ritual of
At the Pope’s recent visit to Abu Dhabi, he and the Muslim Grand Imam of al-Azhar signed a document entitled “A Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together.” Among other things, it said this: The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour,
Concordia Publishing House has a good blog going, with sections titled worship, read, study, teach, and serve. I came across a post by Mason Vieth (no relation!), who quoted Luther’s commentary on the Christmas text in Luke. He considers this verse: “And this will be a sign
As virtually every declared Democratic candidate for president has pledged fealty to the Green New Deal, questions have arisen as to what it actually calls for. When conservative TV host Tucker Carlson interviewed an advisor to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) about the proposal’s provision to
Sam Anderson is a writer for the New York Times Magazine who came to Oklahoma City to write about the curious story of the town’s NBA team, the OKC Thunder–how an unlikely place like Oklahoma City managed to score an NBA team; how to account
Medicare for all! Free college for all! A guaranteed job for all! Such proposals are firing up progressive Democrats. Such promises appeal to lots of voters, maybe enough to win the White House and the government as a whole. Maybe the progressive agenda could become
The Freedom of Religion is enshrined in the United States Constitution, the fundamental law of the land. Nevertheless, it is still possible to thwart religious liberty. One way is to permit religious liberty but restrict what people with certain beliefs are allowed to do. This
Those of us who criticized the disgraced Virginia governor Ralph Northam for describing his abortion-until-birth bill as permitting the killing of a child who is born if the mother goes into labor during the abortion were told that we mischaracterized what he said. Well, fine.
Ideologies often get pushed so far that they start contradicting themselves. If sexual identity is based solely upon how a person “self-identifies”–so that a man must be accepted as a woman if he says so–what does that do to feminism? Or what if a woman
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