Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Well, same-sex marriage has just celebrated a big milestone in the United States, what we might call its 20th anniversary. Molly Ball dates the onset of “same-sex marriage” in the United States to the first same-sex couple that was legally married in the United States, that would be in the state of Ma...
May 15, 2024
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Well, if you were looking at the headlines over the course of the last weekend, you might be tempted to think that the most important news story was the walkout of students at Duke University’s commencement. And there are all kinds of issues here that we need to take a look at. But the most impo...
May 14, 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024
Mother’s Day tends to bring out the very best in our culture, and simultaneously, to bring out the very worst. And on this Monday after Mother’s Day, it’s important that we look back at the landscape a bit. And on that landscape there’s a not insignificant amount of wreckage. A...
May 13, 2024
Friday, May 10, 2024
A couple of important things happened this week that we really need to note before we move on. One of them is a decision that was handed down by the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals. It’s seated in Richmond, Virginia. This has to do with a religious school, actually with a Catholic school, and...
May 10, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Sometimes things happen and all of a sudden you realize, that’s the world we’re now living in. It’s a fundamentally-changed world, and for Christians, it’s at least a baseline truth that if the world has changed, we better know it. It’s a good thing to know. And when it c...
May 9, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
In the Andreyevsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Vladimir Putin stood and he was formally inaugurated in elaborate ceremonies in a very elaborate setting for the very elaborate politics of the situation in which he’s now entering his fifth term as Russia’s president. But we’re go...
May 8, 2024
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Sometimes it is the intellectual, the theological responsibility of Christians to take an issue that looks to be very complex and say, biblically speaking, that’s actually a pretty simple, straightforward issue. It’s a matter of do this or do that. It’s a confrontation of good or evi...
May 7, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
Last week, the United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation known as the Antisemitism Awareness Act. That bill, now being sent to the Senate, would require the Department of Education to apply a definition of antisemitism, and furthermore, would instruct the Department of E...