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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 ...

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Religious Liberty and the Right to be Christian

Moral revolutions require legal revolutions. This is certainly the case with the sexual revolution and its various causes of sexual liberation. A revolution is only complete when the legal structure aligns itself with a new moral understanding. This ...

July 19, 2016

Heresy and Humility — Lessons from a Current Controversy

I have spent my entire adult lifetime concerned with the danger of heresy. As a young theologian, I worked through the early centuries of church history and understood that knowing the difference between orthodox Christianity and heresy is really a m ...

June 28, 2016

Character in Leadership — Does it Still Matter?

In the 1976 presidential campaign, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, then the Democratic nominee, made headlines in the United States and around the world merely by granting a single interview. That interview was with Playboy magazine. The interv ...

June 24, 2016

Good Books for Warm Days — The Summer Reading List for 2016

Different seasons seem to bring different ambitions and opportunities for reading. Just as summer represents a season for rest and a needed change of pace, it also brings a sense of permission to spend time reading a stack of books you could not spar ...

June 10, 2016

That the Word of the Lord May Speed Ahead

If you want to know what people really believe, the philosopher Roger Scruton once explained, listen to them pray. It is one thing to ask a person what he believes, but it is another thing to listen to him pray. Prayers reveal the underlying theology ...

May 20, 2016

The Moral Revolutionaries Present Their Demands: Unconditional Surrender

Now that the moral revolutionaries are solidly in control, what is to be demanded of Christians who, on the basis of Christian conviction, cannot join the revolution? The demands have now been presented, and they represent unconditional surrender. ...

May 12, 2016

Crisis in American Democracy

For nearly two and a half centuries, Americans have enjoyed the enormous privilege and responsibility of forming our own government—a privilege rarely experienced throughout most of human history. For most of history, humanity has struggled with the ...

May 5, 2016

Keeping the Faith in A Faithless Age: the Church as a Moral Minority

"The greatest question of our time," offered historian Will Durant, "is not communism versus individualism, not Europe versus America, not even East versus the West; it is whether men can live without God." That question, it now appears, will be answ ...

April 7, 2016

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Reality of the Gospel

The pattern of the Christian year is an exercise of the Church's discipline. The annual celebrations of Christmas and Resurrection Day force the Church to ponder again the truths of Christ's incarnation and resurrection. Christians understand that ...

March 25, 2016

The Withering of Vice and the Sexual Revolution

This post is the final in a four part series on Secularization and the Sexual Revolution. How Did We Get Here? The question remains, how did all this happen? As already noted, the sexual revolution did not emerge in a vacuum. Modern societies c ...

March 15, 2016