Should the laws against religious discrimination prevent employers from being able to terminate employees who refuse to work on Sundays or other holy days?
Should the laws against religious discrimination prevent employers from being able to terminate employees who refuse to work on Sundays or other holy days?
Parents and civil rights activists concerned about declining reading ability are pointing out that scientific research has determined the best way to teach children to read. And yet the educational establishment is resisting "the science of reading" movement in favor of approaches that just don't work.
My review of "The Gates of Hell" by Matthew Heise, about the persecution of Lutherans under Soviet Communism. The book is a gripping and instructive account of the state’s efforts to use economic, cultural, legal, and violent means to exterminate a church. (a free post) Read more
Some believe that Trump's cooling support for the pro-life movement may lead religious conservatives to revert back to their prior faith-and-values political interests. Others say that the "values voter" is dead, that evangelicals want a "fighter" to defend them against woke ideology and progressive culture. Do you think evangelicals' politics is changing for 2024?
Shoplifter catch-and-release, Trump goes easy on Disney, and euthanasia moves beyond "choice."
Democrats won the recent election in purple Wisconsin not just with the abortion issue but with nuanced tactics: Don't just play to your base. Vary your message according to your audience. Try to reach the whole range of voters. In line with the dominant political mood today, present your opponent as an "extremist." Republicans need to learn how to be so shrewd.
Instead of asking whom you want to be president, this time I am asking a completely different question, one that is objective and unconnected to your personal preferences: What candidates, from both parties, do you think would be the most electable?
Of the 38 most popular praise songs--those that made the Top 25 charts for that category between 2010 and 2020--36 came from only four megachurches, all but one of them being Pentecostal. This reflects the homogenization of contemporary worship. Why, though, would non-Pentecostal churches buy into that?
Al Jaffee has died at the age of 102. He was the last living cartoonist from the golden age of Mad Magazine. Why that humor magazine, with its equal opportunity satire, was important--to me personally, to others who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, and to the culture as a whole.
What with the Nones, declining church membership, declining church attendance, and consistently bad PR, Christianity seems to be fading from American culture. But experts are foreseeing a resurgence of Christianity due to the large number of Christian immigrants.
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