Thursday, April 22, 2021

PART I Will Christian Prayer and Preaching and Parental Conversations Be Declared Illegal? Urgent Questions Arise in Great Britain and Australia — And Will Not Stop There

PART II Threats to Religious Liberty Increase Around the World as Governments Bans on “Conversion Therapy” Extend to Basic Christianity and Gospel Ministry

PART III Banning the “Pernicious Power of Prayer”? Faithful Christians Must Not Be Told How to Pray, Preach, or Parent Our Children from Secular Governments

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

PART I The Achievement of the Rule of Law and a Commitment to Justice: Jury Convicts Derek Chauvin in the Death of George Floyd

PART II Do We Really Believe in the American Project and the Rule of Law? The Importance of Respecting American Courts and Our System of Justice

PART III It’s Very Dangerous to Be a Retired Dictator: Vladimir Putin Sets Himself Up to Continue Autocratic Rule in Russia Until 2036 (or Longer)

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

PART I Huge Moral Questions Raised by a Heartbreaking Story about IVF Technology: Recognizing the Moral Significance of Every Single Human Embryo

PART II The Wild, Wild West of Reproductive Technology: Why Is American Society So Unconcerned about the Wanton Destruction of Human Embryos?

PART III A Custody Battle Over a Dog? A Turtle? An Iguana? Welcome to Divorce in the 21st Century — Confusing the Categorical Distinctions Between Humans and Animals

PART IV Former Vice President and Minnesota Senator, Walter F. Mondale, Dies at 93: Remembering a Bygone Era of American Politics

Monday, April 19, 2021

PART I Abortion Rights Means Abortion for Any Reason: A Horrifyingly Honest Argument from the Editorial Board of The Los Angeles Times

PART II “Faith Leaders” Join Planned Parenthood’s Clergy Advocacy Board: What Could “Faith” Even Mean When Advocating for the Killing of the Unborn?

PART III Planned Parenthood Is Distancing Itself from Its Founder in 2021 — Why Has It Taken So Long?

Friday, April 16, 2021

PART I President Biden Announces Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Afghanistan: The Great Game and the Lessons of History

PART II What Is More Right and Honorable, To Stay or To Leave? Old and Morally Difficult Questions Accompany the Decision to Leave Afghanistan

PART III Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Dies at 99: The Frame of History in One Single Lifetime

Thursday, April 15, 2021

PART I Bernie Madoff, Architect of the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in American History, Dies at 82: What Exactly Is a Ponzi Scheme and Why Do People Fall for Them?

PART II A Modern Parable of American Depravity: What Do We Learn from the Parable of Bernie Madoff?

PART III ‘The Quick Fix’ — Why Do Americans Tend to Be Particularly Gullible When It Comes to Psychological Fads?

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

PART I The Constitutional Right of Religious Liberty Squares Off Against the Newly Invented “Rights” of the LGBTQ Revolution at the Supreme Court

PART II A Shocking Reality Worth Grieving and the Tragic Results of Releasing a New Technology Upon a Society Redefining Marriage and Sexuality

PART III Living in a Society at War: Why Christians Must Declare the Christian Truth about the Value of Human Life

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

PART I Free Exercise of Religion Vindicated: A Big Victory for Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court

PART II Amazon Workers in Bessemer, Alabama, Vote Against Forming Labor Union — Who Knows Best for Workers?

PART III A Major Divide in the United States — And the Issues Are Larger, Not Smaller, Than You Might Have Expected

Monday, April 12, 2021

PART I China Wants to “Sinify” Christians: Why the Gospel Is So Threatening to Totalitarian Regimes

PART II How Much Should Christianity Be Contextualized in Various Cultures?

PART III What Is “Satanic Panic”? Why Christians Should Never Give the Satanic Too Much or Too Little Attention

Friday, April 9, 2021

PART I Robert Mundell, Nobel-Winning Economist, Dies at 88: A Look at Mundell’s Thought on the Growth of the Economic Pie

PART II Hans Küng, Theologian Lionized by the Left, Dies at 93: A Lesson in How to Become a Hero in an Ever-Secularizing Culture

PART III Godzilla vs. King Kong — Who Should Win and Why Do We Care? Why the Moral Imagination Needs Monsters