2018-07-04T16:20:59-04:00

Even as Democrats denounce President Trump for violating political norms, some of their number are saying that they need to do the same thing once they get into power. The main norm they want to break is the one against using your time in power

2018-07-03T18:15:17-04:00

Among the heroes of the American Revolution, which we celebrate on this fourth of July, was a Lutheran pastor, Peter Muhlenberg.  An article in The Federalist tells his story.  And there was more to his career than his famous disvesting in the pulpit. He became

2018-07-03T16:38:10-04:00

On this Independence Day, I would like to offer you words from G. K. Chesterton on patriotism.  For him, love of country was like love of family.  You don’t necessarily love them for all of their wonderful qualities, as if you would stop loving them

2018-07-03T09:19:17-04:00

Many Christians are attracted by Roman Catholicism, with its universal scope, its living authority, its unchanging moral and theological teachings, and its intellectual and aesthetic traditions.  Some take the step of converting to Catholicism, only to find in actual American parishes not Aquinas and Chesterton

2018-07-02T20:07:11-04:00

Here in conservative Oklahoma, we have just passed the nation’s most liberal medical marijuana law, allowing users to buy a license that will allow them to use the drug for any reason whatsoever as long as they get a doctor’s permission.  And doctors are lining

2018-07-01T18:39:24-04:00

As progressives are moving further and further to the left, some are not stopping at socialism or even at the identity politics of post-Marxism.  Some are embracing old-fashioned Cold-War-era, Soviet-style communism. Slovenian thinker Slavoj Žižek is such a communist.  He is described as an author of

2018-07-01T17:15:45-04:00

“Palliative care” refers to medical treatments that ease pain and suffering, particularly for the terminally ill.  But in jurisdictions that have legalized euthanasia, palliative care is becoming less and less available.  This, in turn, causes more patients to turn to physician-assisted suicide. So observes Wesley

2018-07-02T14:13:26-04:00

I finally read Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option:  a Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.  It’s a good book, an important book, one that all Christians would do well to read.  I just have a few friendly criticisms. First of all, he shoots down what

2018-06-28T21:00:16-04:00

The tax legislation passed by Congress was a long, complex bill that hardly any lawmakers read all the way through.  Some surprises are coming out.  Though the effect of the tax bill was to cut taxes dramatically for most Americans, at least one provision will

2018-06-27T13:17:30-04:00

The doctrine of creation means more than opposing evolution.  It teaches that there is a “created order” that we belong to.  As Christians wrestle with the controversial issues of our day, we often forget this fact. So says Breakpoint writer and Patheos blogger G. Shane

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