It’s not in Israel.  Nor is it caused by Jews. Here is the Palestinian journalist Khaled Abu Toameh: Nearly 3,500 Palestinians have been killed in Syria since 2011. But because these Palestinians were killed by Arabs, and not Israelis, this fact is not news in the mainstream media or of interest to “human rights” forums. How many Western journalists have cared to inquire about the thirsty Palestinians of Yarmouk refugee camp, in Syria? Does anyone know that this camp has... Read more

“First time was at the orphanage, and then later in my teens I stuttered.  And I was elected secretary of the minutes of the English class . . . . Then I’d say, [to announce] the minutes of the last meeting, I’d go m-m-m-m-m . . . Oh, it’s terrible.”     Marilyn Monroe Stuttering was the least of Marilyn Monroe’s (1926-62) problems.  She suffered through a lonely and traumatic childhood.  Her father abandoned her mother before Marilyn was born; neither... Read more

We have heard many stories in the media by same-sex attracted people who have “come out” and proclaimed that finally they feel liberated.  Typically, they say that living openly as a gay person brings new freedom. But there are other stories the media do not carry.  I mean the stories–and actually there are many of them–of people who have come out of the gay lifestyle and now live as celibates or else in relationship to someone of the opposite sex.... Read more

Two of the nation’s most distinguished experts on mental health recently published a major study contradicting what our cultural elites have been telling us about sexuality. The report, “Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences,” is co-authored by Dr. Lawrence Mayer and Dr. Paul McHugh. Mayer is a scholar-in-residence in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and a professor of statistics and biostatistics at Arizona State University. Here is the executive summary: (more…) Read more

A recent op-ed in the New York Times argues that God is transgender and we have never seen it. That’s right.  After two and a half millennia, we are now seeing what has never been seen before.  Leave it to the New York Times to publish such an argument. Robert Gagnon, perhaps the world’s best authority on sexuality in the Bible, takes the argument apart piece by piece.  It is worth quoting a bit from his analysis. (more…) Read more

Zionism is kind of a hot-button issue? What drew you to this topic? After twenty-four years and fourteen trips to Israel, and becoming friends with both Arabs and Jews in Israel, I was becoming increasingly disturbed by the discordance between what I saw there and read in Scripture on the one hand, and today’s narratives about Jesus and modern Israel on the other.  I also became convinced that the best way to approach this was academically, since many of what... Read more

Finally, the book has come out: The New Christian Zionism. Two ideas: This is a perfect birthday or Christmas gift. Here is the basic idea. We all know the OT is Zionist (predicting the return of Jews to the land of Israel). But most of the church has presumed that the NT is not Zionist, that the focus in the NT is exclusively on the whole church for the whole world, and that interest in the Jews as Jews and the... Read more

Advocates of religious freedom just dodged a bullet in California.  Since California often influences the rest of the nation, we all have benefited from the work there.  And we all can learn how to fight for religious freedom in the days to come. Darren Guerra and Andrew Walker outline today at Public Discourse the recent battle in California. (more…) Read more

Just when mainstream culture thought acceptance of gay marriage was a done deal, and that it is indisputably true that gay marriage is equal in every way to heterosexual marriage . . . along comes disturbing news.  A new Swedish study, using government data, finds that people in gay marriages are almost three times as likely to commit suicide as those in opposite-sex marriages. And this is in Sweden, where there is near-universal celebration of gay marriage.  So the results... Read more

It is de rigeur among academics to disparage the unwashed masses who are suspicious of Darwin’s theory.  Darwin-skeptics are thought to be unscientific and fundamentalist.  (For those who wonder if any scientists are also Darwin-skeptics, I recommend David Berlinski, The Devil’s Delusion.) It is also unfashionable for scholars to link Darwin’s scientific theory to Social Darwinism, the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals.  It is often claimed that Darwin would have... Read more