A funny thing happened on my way to retirement. (more…) Read more

In antebellum America, abolitionists got a bad rap. (more…) Read more

Walt Heyer is a man who has undergone sex-change surgery, and been injected with hormones to try to make him a woman. He reports that it was a disaster. He also reports on the founders of what has become the transgender movement, biologist Alfred Kinsey and psychologist John Money.  Both operated in dishonest and manipulative ways.  They wound up ruining the lives of those they encouraged to change sex. One chilling datum: there is a high rate of suicide among... Read more

Robert George, the courageous professor of constitutional law at Princeton, explains today why saying that gay marriage is not marriage is nothing like old arguments against interracial marriage. For one thing, such arguments and laws were used rarely in the history of civilization and only to keep races apart.  In contrast, laws upholding the marriage of a man and a woman have been made by every culture to bring men and women together. George also shows that the constitution does... Read more

On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on gay marriage. What transpired was very encouraging, as Ryan Anderson reports. Anderson, one of the most courageous men in America because of his willingness to make the case against gay marriage in the most hostile environments, explains how Justices Alito and Scalia and Roberts registered important concerns about letting gay marriage be declared a constitutional matter: 1. It will suggest that we know the results of gay parenting, when we really... Read more

Peter Leithart is one of our wisest theologians.  At First Things Online he advises on how how to pray for such bloodthirsty enemies of God as ISIS (I would add Boko Haram, Al Quaeda,  North Korea’s government, and the Iranian government). Basically, he says we can pray as the imprecatory psalms pray.  They pray for God to rain judgment on his enemies. Now we are to love our enemies.  But Paul also tell us to “hate what is evil.”  These... Read more

We often hear that we are involved in a spiritual battle.  And on good authority–that of the apostle Paul. In a verse that should be invoked more often than it is, Paul advises, We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (Eph 6.12). It is actually reassuring to know it is not people who oppose... Read more

Academics get behind an Israel that God will use for the good of all. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/april-web-only/not-christian-zionism-youre-thinking-of.html Read more

Martin Thornton was an Anglican theologian of the mid-twentieth century whose Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation (SPCK 1958; Wipf and Stock 2014?) is both refreshing and liberating. (more…) Read more

Cubans are ready for change. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/04/14642/ Read more