The FBI raided Donald Trump's home at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, looking for evidence that the former president violated the law by keeping classified documents, a violation whose penalty includes disqualification from holding future offices. But should the Justice Department and the FBI be used to determine political outcomes?
Some experts are saying that a war between the United States and China is quite possible within the decade or even sooner. Why and how that could happen, even if Americans have little interest in defending Taiwan.
Kansas is a reliably conservative state, but its citizens overwhelmingly voted to keep the "right" to an abortion. Meanwhile, the Indiana state legislature banned abortion, but with some exceptions. What is the best pro-life political strategy?
"Deconstructing" one's faith assumes that the faith is a construction, rather than a revelation of objective truth. And far from manifesting the theology of the cross, it exemplifies the theology of glory.
This weekend's discussion: Many Christians supported Donald Trump, despite his bad qualities, because he would appoint pro-life judges, which might lead to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now that has happened. So is there any distinctly Christian or moral reason to still support him?
Many Christians today--especially evangelicals--say that they are in the process of "deconstructing" their faith, scrutinizing their beliefs in light of their disillusionment with the church. James Walden relates this to Luther's Theology of the Cross as opposed to a Theology of Glory.
Conservatives used to be the insiders, the staid guardians of our institutions and the moral order. Progressives used to be the outsiders, wild and shocking enemies of the Establishment. Now, those roles have reversed.
White Southerners who no longer attend church have pretty much the same political and culture war beliefs that their church going neighbors do. Except when it comes to sex. These findings by historian Daniel Williams complicate the conventional wisdom about evangelicalism and conservative politics.
Kemi Badenoch, described as "England's New Conservative Superstar" who came close to being elected Prime Minister, is a 42-year-old black woman from Nigeria.
Thaddeus Williams tells of discovering Nietzsche and his ideal of personal autonomy as a teenager. But he found a different message in Bob Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody," one that corresponds to what the Bible says about the slavery of sin and freedom in Christ.
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