Thursday, December 12, 2019

PART I Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Kentucky’s Mandatory Ultrasound Rule: The Sacredness of Life Revealed in an Image

PART II ‘Climate Emergency’  — Oxford’s Word of the Year Is Actually Two Words

PART III ‘Existential’ — How an Animated Spork Named Forky Revived the Use of Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year

PART IV The Moral Revolution in a Pronoun — Merriam-Webster Dictionary Calls the Non-Binary ‘They’ Its Word of the Year, Although It Only Officially Recognized That Word in September

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

PART I House Democratic Leaders Release Two Articles of Impeachment: What Happens Next?

PART II One Report, Two Interpretations: What the New Report on the FBI Means Depends on Where and How You Read the Story

PART III Why Was the FBI Established in the First Place? The Expanding Nature of Both Crime and the FBI Throughout American History

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

PART I A Secular Culture Looks for Meaning Everywhere: Four Articles in Sunday’s New York Times Illustrate the Modern Search for Meaning

PART II The Post-Christian Character of Society: Humanity’s Deep Spiritual Hunger on Full Display

PART III What Is a Banana and a Piece of Duct Tape Worth? Apparently $120,000 — An Unsettled Culture Clearly Seen in Subversive, Modern Art

Monday, December 9, 2019

PART I The Clash Between Religious Liberty and the New Sexual Liberty Continues: Fairness For All Legislation Introduced on Friday

PART II The Infectious Logic of the Fairness For All Act: Why This Proposed Legislation Actually Weakens the Case for Religious Liberty

PART III Getting in Line with the Sexual Revolution: The Problem of a Theology of Subsequent Revelation

Friday, December 6, 2019

PART I New Demands to Remake Christianity: Understanding the Challenge We Face

PART II Christian Colleges and the LGBTQ Revolution: The Pattern of Disaster Looms Before Us

PART III The Christian Mandate of Clarity: For Christian Institutions, There Is No Chance of Faithfulness Without Clear Convictions

Thursday, December 5, 2019

PART I America’s Political Divide as an Impeachment Divide: House Intelligence Committee Releases Impeachment Report

PART II The Drama of the Impeachment Process Continues: Testimony from Constitutional Scholars Reveals Both Constitutional and Political Divide

PART III Disney+ Launches with Cultural Warnings on Some Content: The Changing Moral Landscape

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

PART I Kamala Harris Ends Her Presidential Campaign: The New Liberal Senator of 2016 Wasn’t Liberal Enough for the Democratic Party of 2019

PART II Elizabeth Warren Wants to Abolish the Electoral College: What that Really Means and Why it Matters

PART III The United States Is Not and Has Never Been a Direct Democracy: The Logic of American Constitutionalism

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

PART I Mormon Church Supports Utah’s New Ban on Conversion Therapy: The Moral Revolutionaries Won’t Stop with This New Policy

PART II Moral Liberalism on the Ballot in New Zealand: The Secularizing Nation Will Vote on Legalizing Abortion, Euthanasia, and Recreational Marijuana

PART III Nihilism in a Test Tube: Sperm Bank for HIV-Positive Donors Opens in New Zealand

Monday, December 2, 2019

PART I How Was a Convicted Terrorist Free and Able to Carry Out Last Week’s Attack on London Bridge? The Secular Mind and the Problem of Moral Evil

PART II A Father’s Nazi Past Makes Headlines Today: History Never Forgets

PART III World War Two Era Espionage Is in the Headlines in 2019: How Do You Rewind Moral Questions in History? Who Can?

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

PART I Michael Bloomberg Officially Enters the Presidential Race: An Unlikely Candidacy Driven by Contradictory Social and Fiscal Policies

PART II Pope Francis Makes Appeal to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on Visit to Japan: The Moral Problem of Knowledge When Discussing Nuclear Disarmament

PART III A Biblical Theology of Thanksgiving: True Thankfulness Is an Act of Worship to God the Creator