Commenters on the Orlando shooting have been calling for more gun control. But now, in the aftermath of the attack, many gays are arming themselves for self-defense. (more…)
Commenters on the Orlando shooting have been calling for more gun control. But now, in the aftermath of the attack, many gays are arming themselves for self-defense. (more…)
Pope Francis has elevated Mary Magdalene’s saint’s day to a “major feast,” putting her on the same level liturgically as Christ’s apostles. The pope wants Christians to consider Mary, who first told the apostles about Christ’s resurrection, as “a paradigm of the ministry of women
Remember the study, still cited by liberals, that found that a correlation between “psychoticism” and conservative political beliefs? It said qualities such as “dogmatism,” “intolerance of ambiguity,” the “fear of threat or loss” manifest themselves in conservatives, who “are more uncooperative, hostile, troublesome, and socially withdrawn,”
Rev. Matthew Harrison was re-elected today for his third term as president of the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod. This means the leadership of the LCMS remains in confessional, conservative, orthodox, culturally-engaging hands. (more…)
Gallup has released a new study of Americans’ moral beliefs, and it’s full of surprises and good-news/bad-news. Acceptance of abortion (43%) , same sex relations (60%), stem-cell research on human embryos (60%), and physician assisted suicide (53%) is actually down from last year. Though a majority still
David Harsanyi asks, referring to the technical word for free societies, “Why is it that so many of the same people who are skeptical about exporting liberalism (count me as one) are perfectly content with the idea of importing illiberalism?” (more…)
In a piece for Rolling Stone, Drexel constitutional law professor David S. Cohen calls for repealing the Second Amendment. He argues that the right to keep and bear arms “is outdated, a threat to liberty and a suicide pact.” (more…)
The “Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church” will be held in Crete, June 16-27. The Council, which will be attended by the leaders of all of the world’s 14 Orthodox bodies (though two are threatening boycott), is being described as the Orthodox equivalent
The sports world obediently accepts the new cultural mandates about gender. That means transgendered men can now compete, as women, in women’s sports. Consider this case study: Fallon Fox is a man who has transitioned into being a woman. He, now called she, competes in
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Since we left the World Table comment system and went back to Disqus, the discussions have gotten bigger and more vigorous, with wider participation. Of course, with that has come the problem of trolls, bad language, and obnoxious behavior. I’ve tried to do a better