March 26, 2024

Netflix has started production on a new series of "Chronicles of Narnia" movies that will reportedly include all seven of C. S. Lewis's Christian fantasy novels. The director of the first two films will be Greta Gerwig, fresh off her triumph with "Barbie." Netflix and Gerwig say the movies will be faithful to the sources, including their Christian themes.

March 25, 2024

Only 8% of white evangelicals approve of Christian Nationalism; what's good about American evangelicalism; and the divorce rate is down and the marriage rate is up.

March 22, 2024

When we hear of attacks on religious freedom, we usually think of government restrictions or overt persecution.  But another kind of attack on religious freedom is emerging in the academic world from legal scholars who are arguing against the very concept of religion being a basic human right.

March 22, 2024

After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen human embryos, engendered in fertility labs, are human beings with a right to life, panic was stirred up that the ruling would endanger the practice of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). So many Republicans are backtracking on the issue, making pro-life organizations turn against them. What do you think about this controversy?

March 21, 2024

Capitalism is dead.  And technology has killed it.  What is taking its place is a reversion to feudalism.  So argues Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis in his book "Technofeudalism:  What Killed Capitalism."

March 20, 2024

Humanism has given way to "posthumanism," the blending of humans and machines. Robert Lazu Kmita argues that human beings now think of themselves as machines.  Which makes it easy to think of machines as human beings. 

March 19, 2024

I review a new book by the Catholic thinker R. J. Snell entitled "Lost in the Chaos: Immanence, Despair, and Hope."  It's a devastating critique of secularism.  As such, it makes an important contribution to contemporary Christian apologetics. [A free post, to be shared.] Read more

March 18, 2024

Imprisonment without trial for a "hate crime" before it's committed, the UK bans puberty blockers, and walking back defunding the police.

March 15, 2024

We have been blogging about the different kinds of conservatism contending today--National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, Cultural Conservatism, etc. Southern Baptist theologian Andrew T. Walker argues that ALL types of conservatism need to be grounded in the reality of God. 

March 15, 2024

Last Sunday we switched to Daylight Savings Time, bringing back the great debate about whether to make it permanent, make Standard Time permanent, or keep switching depending on the season.


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