Robert Benne It is educated people (our elites) who press forward the sexual revolution. They are ones who produce the entertainment and do the advertising. They are creators and supporters of internet pornography. They are the ones—many in academia—who themselves live fairly conventional lives but would not be caught dead defending the institution of marriage. The negative effects of their actions or lack thereof are borne by those below them on the social class ladder, leading one commentator to characterize... Read more

Is the High Church the Christianity of the future? http://www.virtueonline.org/why-millennials-long-liturgy Read more

Mark Regnerus A new study gives in-depth information about Americans’ view about sex, religion, marriage, and family. Though there’s lots of bad news, there are also some encouraging results. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/12/14131/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=41cdfe7808-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-41cdfe7808-84107317 Read more

 Never in my life has the world seemed to be so much on the brink. Not since the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis has the world seemed to be on the brink of such major confrontations. Think of North Korea, Ukraine, and the Middle East. (more…) Read more

“This is the first time that such an influential Islamic institution openly declares that theories used by terrorists and extremists to justify with the Qur’an violent activity are a perversion of genuine Islam.” http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=23442 Read more

Mark Tooley “In the Middle East today, there is one country where Christians are affectionately granted freedom of expression, freedom of worship, and security,” Naddaf told his Washington audience. “In Israel, Christians enjoy good education, employment, welfare, health care, and high socioeconomic standing. In Israel, Christians have freedom, which no Muslim power has ever offered us.” http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/israeli-priest-defends-israel_819715.html Read more

If any American writer was ever great, popular, and religious, surely it was John Updike. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/12/13916/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=78a42a16ea-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-78a42a16ea-84107317 Read more

In 19 BC  the master-builder, King Herod the Great, began the most ambitious building project of his life, the rebuilding of the Temple and the Temple Mount in lavish style. To facilitate this, he undertook a further expansion of the Hasmonean Temple Mount by extending it on three sides, to the north, west and south. Today’s Temple Mount boundaries still reflect this enlargement. http://www.ritmeyer.com/2014/11/24/the-temple-mount-in-the-herodian-period-37-bc-70-ad/   Read more

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Heroes of 2014. Read other perspectives here. How could it be? That the friend and colleague of African-American leftist philosopher Cornel West, with whom he team-teaches seminars at Princeton, and presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, is called a racist? (more…) Read more

Ron Sider We need a better approach to the traditional biblical ethic on sexuality. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/november-web-only/ron-sider-tragedy-tradition-and-opportunity-in-homosexualit.html?utm_source=ctdirect-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=9488316&utm_content=315705950&utm_campaign=2013&start=1 Read more