The decision we face

At last, Election Day arrives and we will soon (we sincerely hope) know the results of the 2024 presidential election. I’ll start by putting my cards ...

December 4, 2024

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Will Your Church’s Preaching and Counseling Be Criminalized? Will Parents Be on Wrong Side of the Law Just for Talking to Them About Sexuality and Gender? A Warning from the American Heartland

It seems that no matter where you turn, threats against religious freedom continue to surface—and sometimes, those pressures against this precious liberty appear in unexpected places. You expect to see the rights of conscience suppressed in China, No ...

January 21, 2022

The Grinch who stole Joe Biden’s Christmas: Joe Manchin’s grand act of defiance

The White House was lighted with candles and such, but President Joe Biden simply wanted too much. For Christmas he wanted a very long list, “I’ll transform society! You get the gist. But even as POTUS sent Congress a letter, demanding the deal ...

January 21, 2022

Sir, you are not a conservative

Writing about his intellectual pilgrimage, New York Times columnist David Brooks once described himself in the 1980s like this: “What followed over the next decade was a journey from one conservative institution to another, as I tried to figure out e ...

January 13, 2022

Yesterday was D-Day against abortion in America

“Roe versus Wade and Planned Parenthood versus Casey haunt our country.” Those were the opening words of the oral argument presented by Mississippi’s solicitor general, Scott G. Stewart, as he stood before the Supreme Court of the United States yeste ...

January 2, 2022

Now thank we all our God

Martin Rinkart was a pastor during the Lutheran Reformation, and his arrival as minister in the Saxon town of Eilenburg came as the Thirty Years War was ravaging Europe. The merciless war was no stranger to his town or to his church members, and the ...

December 25, 2021

Will the last conservative please turn out the lights?

Fox News reported the story as if it made perfect sense—just a routine news account of a political happening. But this political event was actually a moral earthquake disguised as a social celebration. The festivities were held at Mar-a-Lago and amon ...

December 11, 2021

Is the pope Catholic?

As President Joe Biden’s 85-car motorcade made its way to the Vatican last Friday, the stage was set for an epic public relations event. The media gushed that the world’s two most famous Catholics would be meeting in a much-anticipated spectacle, but ...

December 3, 2021

The death penalty and the American conscience

The death penalty is back in the headlines and back before the Supreme Court. It is the issue that erupts again and again, revealing a basic moral fault line that runs right through the American people—and perhaps through the American heart. The situ ...

November 27, 2021

Jesse Jackson turns 80

Jesse Jackson celebrated his 80th birthday on Oct. 8, and the eight decades of his lifetime reveal an America that is utterly changed, and still changing. What does the life of Jesse Jackson tell us about our nation? Jackson was born in Greenville, ...

November 12, 2021

What the “Build Back Better” bill is actually about

Americans now hear the noise of battle in Washington and the conflict is described as a debate over taxation and spending. Money is certainly on the line in the debate—trillions of dollars, in fact—but the Biden Administration and Democratic leaders ...

November 5, 2021

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