In this era of “identity politics,” we would do well to read what the Bible says about our identity. Here are the passages that direct the issue most directly: For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek,
One of the superpowers most of us have but often take for granted is reading. How amazing that attending to tiny marks on a page or on a screen can plug someone else’s mind into our own, so that the thoughts and imagination of the
Some observers believe the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Masterpiece Cake case will do little to protect religious liberty. If government agencies are simply more polite about the way they talk about religion, the ruling implies, they can discriminate against religion all they want. Justice
At President Trump’s summit meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, our president showed him a video. Here it is. (It’s only 4 minutes.) The genre of this particular video is the propaganda film. It is very much like the ones Kim shows to his people,
Australia is working through how to guarantee the freedom of religion in light of their new same-sex marriage law, approaching it from a slightly different perspective than the U.S. Part of the difficulty is in defining religion. That’s not as easy as it might seem. From
One of the bêtes noires of the hard, hard left is “heteronormativity,” the view that heterosexual relations, marriage, and child-bearing are “normal,” which means that other lifestyles are not. Now some radicals are criticizing homonormativity, in which gays emulate heterosexual “normalcy” by getting married and having
TV bon vivant Anthony Bourdaine committed suicide last week, just days after fashion mogul Kate Spade did the same. The same week the Center for Disease Control issued a study about suicide, which noted that taking one’s own life is the 10th leading cause of
The week before last I found myself in Texas at the very epicenter of the barbecue world. So I took advantage of that opportunity by undertaking a five-day food pilgrimage. I’ve got to tell you about it, but lest you worry that you will be
The Pew Research Center has carried out a study of religion in Europe, finding that the picture is far more complicated than had been assumed. The different conclusions drawn from the study are evident in the different news stories that have been written about it.
As we blogged about before, Brazil is attempting to outlaw the practice of some indigenous tribes of killing children whom they think are bad luck–children born of single mothers, babies with blemishes or handicaps, twins, etc. But anthropologists are up in arms trying to block
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