WSJ: Thousands pack the services of the evangelical Redeemer Presbyterian Church, most of them single and under 35. (more…) Read more

After being given a little drug, I was feeling relaxed. My surgery was about 30 minutes ahead of me. (more…) Read more

Jody Bottum Christmas isn’t tasteful, isn’t simple, isn’t clean, isn’t elegant. Give me the tacky and the exuberant and the wild, to represent the impossibly boisterous fact that God has intruded in this world. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/12/14206/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=62a45afc9a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-62a45afc9a-84107317 Read more

One option for pro-marriage business owners: obey the law and serve gay weddings, but make it known publicly that you believe that the law forcing you to do this is unjust, needs to be changed, and is obeyed only out of your respect for law and the democratic process. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/12/14190/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=fbf75901b8-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-fbf75901b8-84107317   Read more

While visiting the town of Walsingham, however, a procession of the Blessed Sacrament passed them by. Dunstan—who had shown no signs of religiosity for years—instinctively fell to his knees, bowed his head and made the sign of the Cross. Philip was stunned. “At that point, I thought I had lost Dunstan forever. But I soon realized that I’d actually been blessed, by seeing who Dunstan really was—and that revelation, in turn, enabled me to re-discover my own spiritual calling.” http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/12/a-witness-in-life-and-letters... Read more

Robert Oscar Lopez The dream of a sex-positive socialist Catholicism based on Marx and liberation theology tells kids to stop complaining when they suffer the consequences of adults’ sexual selfishness. Sexual radicalism and extreme pro-LGBT advocacy have no positive role to play in Catholic higher education. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/12/14182/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=d19d358c8f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-d19d358c8f-84107317 Read more

Christians typically say we were saved by Christ’s death. But the apostle Paul does not. (more…) Read more

WSJ Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky famously postulated that the test of a free society is the ability to express opinions in the town square without fear of reprisal. Most American colleges wouldn’t pass that test, according to a new report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire). (more…) Read more

Victor David Hanson People see Muslims ravaging and killing as merely an extended bad hair day for them, a departure from their enlightened and peaceful past.   But the truth is the reverse:  the period of tolerance toward Christians in Muslim lands is an exception and the present attacks on Christians are the norm. http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=7989#more-7989 Read more

May I make two requests? Love me, but remember that you cannot be more merciful than God. It isn’t mercy to affirm same-sex acts as good. Don’t compromise truth; help me to live in harmony with it. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/12/14149/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=299480ba99-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-299480ba99-84107317 Read more