Wednesday, June 30, 2021

PART I The Supreme Court Dodged the Transgender Question Again, But It Cannot Avoid the Issue Forever — And It's a Problem of Its Own Making

PART II California’s Game of Virtue Signaling and Moral Coercion: CA Bans State-Funded Travel to 5 More States—Now 17 Total—Because of LGBTQ-Related Policies

PART III The Destruction of the English Language Continues: The F.A.A. Recommends That All Aviation Terminology Be Gender-Neutral

PART IV Where Are Americans on the Issue of Abortion? Definitely Not Where the Abortion Rights Movement Claims

PART V Critical Theory Invades the Tolkien Society: The Ruthless Army of Ideologues Comes for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beloved Works

PART VI Apple Pie Is a Symbol of Genocide and Colonial Oppression? Deconstruction Now Comes After Your Dessert

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

PART I A Crucial Moment for the Future of Religious Liberty in America: Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop Fined Again in Colorado

PART II Is Religious Liberty Just One of Many Government Interests? A Look at the Response to the Fulton v. Philadelphia Decision

PART III Why Did the IRS Deny a Christian Organization Its Tax-Exempt Status? Well, Essentially for Holding to Christian Values

PART IV Despite the Unanimous Fulton Decision, KY Governor Andy Beshear Won’t Back Down from His Administration’s Policy Denying Sunrise Children Service Its Right to Operate by Christian Convictions

Monday, June 28, 2021

PART I Heartbreaking Tragedy in Surfside, Florida: 9 People Confirmed Dead and More Than 150 Missing in Wake of Condominium Collapse in Miami

PART II Sometimes a Deal is Not What it Appears to Be: Biden Celebrates Bipartisan Agreement on $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan, Then Undermines the Agreement

PART III U.S. Report on UFOs Is Released to the Disappointment of Many: Why Are We Always Looking for a Story Bigger Than Ourselves? Christians Know the Bigger Story

Friday, June 25, 2021

PART I President Biden’s Sudden Silence on the Death Penalty: Why Has the President Gone Silent on His Campaign Promise to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty?

PART II Why Do Atheists Oppose the Death Penalty More Than Religious Persons? There’s A Lot of Theology Here and It’s Openly Acknowledged

PART III Have You Noticed How the Conversation on Crime and Policing Has Changed? Why Order and Trust Is Required for a Society to Thrive

PART IV We Never Quite Know What’s Lurking in the Depths, Do We? Diver in Cape Cod Scooped Up by a Whale. Sound Familiar?

Thursday, June 24, 2021

PART I Is “Coming Out” Soon a Thing of the Past? Not Yet, But The Sexual Revolutionaries Want to Take Down the “Heteronormative Patriarchy” So That Everyone On Earth is “Out"

PART II What Does the Utopian Culture of the Sexual Revolution Look Like? Well, USA Today Gives Us a Glimpse, Writing About a Day When Heterosexuality Is No Longer the Norm

PART III Are We Witnessing the End of Gendered Clothing? Despite the Push from the Fashion Elites, It’s Hard to Imagine a World of Men in Their Summer Dresses

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

PART I Do Human Beings Have An Unlimited Right of Autonomy? Millions of Americans Seem to Think So and the Consequences of This Claim Are Deadly

PART II The Radical Claim of Autonomy Threatens Human Dignity at the Beginning and End of Life and Confuses Human Gender and Sexuality at Every Point in Between

PART III The Olympics No Longer Knows the Difference Between Male and Female: A Reminder That Ontology Always Trumps Autonomy

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

PART I New York City Holds Primary Election Today: What Will the Election Results from the American Epicenter of Culture, Economics, and Influence Tell Us?

PART II What Is Ranked Choice Voting? How This Form of Voting Weakens Democratic Process

PART III Always Pay Attention to the Vocabulary: The Department of Veteran Affairs Will Begin Offering “Gender Confirmation Surgeries”

Monday, June 21, 2021

PART I Debate Continues in the Roman Catholic Church Over Communion Rights for Politicians Who Support Abortion: The Necessity of Moral Coherence in One’s Personal and Public Life

PART II Benjamin Netanyahu Is Out as Prime Minister of Israel — And There’s Theology Here Under the Headlines

PART III Ebrahim Raisi, Radical Islamist, Elected as New President of Iran: Theology Always Matters and Christians Know Why

Friday, June 18, 2021

PART I A Huge Win for Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court: What Signal Does the Unanimous Decision in Fulton v. Philadelphia Send?

PART II Education Department Announces Protection for Transgender Students Under Title IX: A Reminder That Supreme Court Decisions Can Have Seismic Effects

PART III The Moral Issues of World War II Come Rushing Back Decades Later: What Happened to Hideki Tojo’s Remains After His Execution?

Thursday, June 17, 2021

PART I A Rebound of Toxic Ideas in France: What’s Behind the French Claim That Americans Are Exporting Bad Ideas?

PART II A Clash of Secular Worldviews in France: What Happens When a Secular Society Can No Longer Take Any Theological Argument Seriously?

PART III What Will the Political Future of the United States Look Like If the Nation Continues to Secularize? Why There Can Be No Rescue from Ideology by Ideology