To understand today’s leftists–including why they shut down free speech on university campuses–you need to understand “intersectionality.” And to understand “intersectionality,” you need to see it as a religion. As a worldview, intersectionality understands all things in terms of identity politics. Specifically, the patterns of
After getting married, the next step for most couples is having children. Now that we have same-sex marriage, there is the impulse for same-sex parenting. But natural law still holds for reproduction, so two married men who want to be parents must find a woman who
The conventional wisdom among liberal theologians and higher critics of the Bible is that the deity of Christ was a concept that grew up out of a long oral tradition that gradually elevated the historical Jesus, culminating in the Council of Nicaea, which defined the
Ronald Reagan promoted a “supply-side economy,” focusing on increasing the supply of goods and services, thereby bringing prices down and increasing prosperity. Donald Trump is promoting what could be called a “demand-side economy,” cutting supply while increasing demand, thereby increasing wages and raising prices. Here
In the current debates over gun ownership and self-defense, we would do well to consider how the doctrine of vocation applies. On the most basic level, according to Romans 13, we are not to impose justice by taking personal “revenge.” Rather, God protects us and
“All politics is local.” According to that maxim, both parties catered to local issues and local sensibilities. But now, according to one observer, “All politics is national.” Formerly, when politics was local, Democrats in the South tended to be conservative when it came to issues
Lots of church members believe in abortion. That’s understandable, I suppose, since lots of churches are liberal in their theology and officially approve of the practice. But lots of members of conservative churches, whose teachings are clearly pro-life, also believe in abortion. D. C. McAllister,
President Trump announced that he will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum, sending the stock market plummeting. Next week, steel imported from other countries will be assessed a tax of 25%. Foreign-produced aluminum will be assessed 10%. Here are some details from Dow closes more
It appears that Pope Francis is trying to reverse the Catholic Church’s unpopular and widely-ignored ban against artificial birth control. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae (“Of Human Life”), Pope Paul VI’s encyclical forbidding contraception. Two years ago, Pope Francis released another encyclical
President Trump defied the National Rifle Association and opponents of gun control, urging Republican congressmen to pass stricter gun laws in light of the Parkland school shooting. The president chastised his fellow Republican politicians for being in thrall to the NRA. “They have great power over
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