We had our Tenebrae service on Tuesday, here in Australia, and the Scripture readings struck me with their irony. It’s excruciating, I thought, using an adjective often used to describe irony in its extremest form. Then I realized that the very word “excruciating” comes from
The young anti-school shooting crusaders are discrediting the NRA and influencing public opinion to support gun control. Opponents of gun rights are coming out of the woodwork, organizing boycotts, shaming companies, and trying to make gun rights advocates social pariahs, almost as despicable as opponents
Years ago, I read the book I and Thou by the Jewish theologian Martin Buber. I have found it very useful in understanding human relationships and how things can go wrong. Peter Leithart writes about it for First Things, and I appreciate being reminded about it. Briefly,
Pro-abortion advocates wrap themselves in the mantle of “the woman’s right to choose.” But many women don’t choose to get abortions. Their husbands, boyfriends, or other men pressure them to do so. Pro-abortion advocates make abortion a hallmark of feminism. But they don’t say much
Our new granddaughter, Hannah Grace Hensley, was baptized on Palm Sunday. Now comes Holy Week. Christmas celebrates the Incarnation, God becoming a human being. But this week and the events it commemorates shows, in rapid succession, why this happened and how it was all “for
Back in February, with great effort, Congress passed a budget agreement, but the details and actual appropriations were not worked out. That required an “omnibus spending bill.” After helping to negotiate the bill, then threatening to veto it, Trump finally signed the $1.3 trillion spending bill
Traditional atheists argue that God does not exist. The “new atheists” employ a moral argument against God, trying to make the case that God and believers in God are bad, then jumping to the non sequitur that He therefore does not exist. Then there is Friedrich Nietzsche,
According to the leftist tenets of intersectionality, the interlocking dynamics of power and privilege mean that members of one oppressed identity group should act as “allies” of other oppressed identity groups. Thus, women should support gays, who should support racial minorities, who should support the
The Pew Research Center has released a study of marital status in U.S. religious groups. It gives the percentage of those married, living with a partner, divorced or separated, widowed, and never been married, broken down by denomination or religious affiliation. The results are interesting, disturbing,
President Trump has been fending off lawsuits from three women accusing him of mistreating them on the grounds that the President of the United States is immune from civil litigation in state courts. His argument is based on the Supremacy Clause of the U. S.
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