Friday, August 29, 2025
Well, we are told America has a boy crisis. You probably knew that already. The lead on the Sunday opinion page of the New York Times just this week says, lonely, detached and isolated, today’s young men are adrift. We faced this problem a century ago. We can solve the boy crisis again. Two majo...
August 29, 2025
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Well, sex education’s back in the headlines. It’s never far from the headlines. In this case, the headlines have to do with a directive from the Trump administration that states “remove any transgender ideology from sex education materials.” Now these are for programs funded by the federal...
August 28, 2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Well, sometimes it’s reality TV, sometimes it’s just reality. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the one from the other. When you mention the Menendez brothers, all of this comes into a clearer focus, and in particular, in the last several days, the big news has come from California, where ...
August 27, 2025
The Ruin of That House Was Very Great
August 26, 2025
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Sometimes you get some interesting numbers that come in a research report, in a poll or a survey, and the numbers basically tell you what you already knew, but that doesn’t mean the numbers aren’t in themselves interesting. So I want to turn to a report that was just released by the Pew Re...
August 26, 2025
Monday, August 25, 2025
Well, the museum world is under fire. Here in the United States, President Donald Trump and his administration has sent notice to the Smithsonian Institution and to other institutions that of course receive federal funds, that they are expecting a realignment of the museum’s exhibits in such a w...
August 25, 2025
Friday, August 22, 2025
One of the most influential figures in American Evangelicalism died yesterday. Dr. James Dobson died at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at age 89. He was one of the most significant figures in the evangelical world, very much a figure in what became known as the New Christian Right. He was a p...
August 22, 2025
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Well, one of the things we need to take into account is the media landscape at any given time, and I’m speaking of the media landscape here in the United States, the lay of the land, so to speak. How do most Americans receive news? How do they receive information? How do they process it? WhoR...
August 21, 2025
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
The issue of abortion tends to rise and fall in the nation’s consciousness, having to do usually with some kind of court decision or some kind of major legislative move, some executive order coming from a White House. But one of the things Christians need to recognize is that our moral concern f...
August 20, 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Let’s take a quick look at what has taken place just over the last several days in terms of Russia’s war against Ukraine and efforts to achieve peace. Last Friday in Alaska, Russian president Vladimir Putin came to meet with US president Donald Trump. The meeting was only about three hours...