Leading Democrats in the Senate have introduced a bill that would amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), so that it could not be used to protect Christians who refuse to approve of gay marriage and other LGBT causes. The RFRA was passed in 1993
President Trump is bringing back a Reagan-era rule that would prevent federal “family planning” money from going to organizations that provide for or recommend abortion. This will hurt Planned Parenthood, but it stops far short of defunding the abortion franchise completely. The federal government has
I quite randomly stumbled upon this quotation from Lutheran theologian Hermann Sasse*, the anti-Nazi activist who settled in Australia. Paul McCain nailed it to the door at First Things eight years ago. Nota bene: By “evangelical,” Sasse is using the European terminology for what we
We had yet another high school shooting, with 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis in Santa Fe, Texas, prowling the hallways shooting 23 teachers and classmates, killing 10 and wounding 13. Most discussions about this and all of the similar cases are focusing on the “how”; that is, the
Yesterday was another major holy-day: Pentecost, fifty days after the resurrection of Christ and ten days after His ascension, at which time the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the church. There are many misconceptions about this particular person in the Holy Trinity. The Holy
In a review of Jonah Goldberg’s The Suicide of the West in The Federalist, John Daniel Davidson quotes from C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. Lewis is showing the similarity between magic and technology, and, in doing so, brings up two different assumptions about
In our recent post, The Vocation of a Spy, we discussed whether espionage is a legitimate vocation from God, and, if it is, does the vocation authorize the morally problematic activities that a spy must engage in–deception, lying, tempting others to betray their country, etc.
According to a new study, the number of white evangelicals is dropping precipitously, to the point that there are now more Americans who profess “no religion” (21%) than there are who claim to be “evangelicals” (13%). So finds the study sponsored by ABC News and the
In the jungles of Brazil, some tribes kill children who are disabled, who were born to single mothers, and who are twins. The Brazilian legislature is considering a bill outlawing these practices. But anthropologists and other postmodernists are opposing the bill on the grounds that
Tom Wolfe, 88, has died. The pioneer of “New Journalism,” which uses fictional techniques–an interior point of view, dialogue, thoughts, action, description, and a creative style–to write non-fiction, Wolfe later turned to fiction. At a time when most novelists were writing interior narratives of consciousness, Wolfe
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