Fifteen million people signed the petition to remove the Brotherhood from power, and many more were involved in demonstrations up and down the country. In the absence of a parliament, how else was the will of the people to be expressed? http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaelnazirali/100232089/when-egypt-emerges-from-its-bloody-chaos-it-needs-true-democracy-not-a-dictatorship-of-the-majority/ Read more

Today’s decision highlights the increasing concern many have that anti-discrimination laws and the pressure for same-sex marriage will run roughshod over the rights of conscience and religious liberty http://www.nationalreview.com/article/356539/clashing-claims-ryan-t-anderson?utm_source=RTA+NRO+NM&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

To understand why most residents of Cairo feel that these sit-ins should not continue, you should imagine how long residents of New York – or your own city – would tolerate the following scenario:- Imagine more than 10,000 protestors camped for six weeks in Times Square in New York. No traffic can go through the square and, as a result, all other traffic in the area becomes congested, especially at rush hour. People and businesses in the surrounding buildings have... Read more

To defend marriage, we must reframe the narratives that shape our culture and our minds. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/08/10775/?utm_source=RTA+Brown+Haters&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

Recent Pew Research studies provide insights into 5 things about Egypt that help put recent events in context. http://theweeklynumber.com/1/post/2013/08/5-things-to-know-about-egypt-as-churches-burn-a-mosque-is-sieged-hundreds-die.html?goback=.gde_2949795_member_266605207#! Read more

The new leader of the Southern Baptist political arm says Christians have lost the culture and need to act accordingly. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324769704579010743654111328.html?mod=hp_opinion Read more

Joseph Epstein When James Farl Powers died in 1999, the New York Times headline on his rather brief obituary read: “J.F. Powers, 81, Dies; Wrote About Priests.” Wikipedia describes Powers as “a Roman Catholic American novelist and short-story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church, and was known for his studies of midwestern Catholic priests.” Sounds narrow, provincial, claustral, unpromising. Not, it turns out, so. In the American priesthood J.F. Powers found a subject that... Read more

most of the Christians in Israel are not Arabs, nor were they ever. They are former Greeks, or former Romans, or former Assyrians or even former Jews. They were here, alongside the Jews, when the Muslims conquered the country and made it a desert. They and all other dhimmis have ever since groaned under the yoke of Muslim oppression. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-good-father-322942 Read more

It used to be the perfect peak of idleness, but we’ve ruined the month with work, school and calendars run amok http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324085304579010883992581404.html?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks Read more

Dallas died on May 8, 2013. I’m not sure if anyone has told him yet. But I know that for the lives touched by his mind and heart, there is a void. A philosopher at the University of Southern California (USC) for nearly five decades, he was the smartest man I have ever known. But it was the quality of his life—the extent to which he lived in the reality of the kingdom—that shaped the people who knew him the... Read more