Monday, June 23, 2025

PART I

The Days of False Negotiation are Over: The United States Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Sites

PART II

Does the President Have the Constitutional Right to Launch This Kind of Attack? Criticism of the Attack on Iran Raises Major Questions

PART III

Was the U.S. Attack on Iran Justified? What About Just War Theory? Christians Have Even More to Consider About the Attack on Iran

PART IV

The Military Intelligence Behind the Attack on Iran: You Too Could Have Read Enough to Know About It in The Wall Street Journal

PART V

Is This Iraq All Over Again? Republicans Wrestle with Question of Whom Trust

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Friday, Feb. 2, 2018

PART I

Why a referendum in Ireland tells us a great deal about our place in the modern world

PART II

Secular authority tells American evangelicals that the future is going to require “theological flexibility”

PART III

Modern culture refuses to make absolute moral judgments about sex, but not about money

New Haven, USA - May 4, 2015: Yale University campus on April 4, 2015. It is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018

PART I

Yale offers a course on happiness which the professor suggests students should take pass-fail

PART II

Adult happiness linked to Research indicates adult happiness is linked to marriage in a way it is not linked to cohabitation

PART III

Signs of the times as our society is increasingly dabbing, dropping, and doping

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the first State of the Union address given by U.S. President Donald Trump and his second joint-session address to Congress. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018

PART I

On the most important of all political stages President Trump strikes a different note, even as there are few surprises

PART II

New debates about homeschooling take on a new urgency

PART III

As Murphy Brown returns we have to ask, “Will she even be interesting today?”

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 05: A sign awaits Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) before he introduces the Senate version of the 'Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act' before a news conference with leaders from anti-abortion groups in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Graham's bill is the companion legislation to House of Representatives' version, which passed earlier this week by a vote of 237 to 189. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018

PART I

What’s at stake in historic vote in the United States Senate on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

PART II

How science is used in today’s contentious cultural debates

PART III

State of the Union preview: What to watch for as President Trump addresses joint session of Congress

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 05: A Planned Parenthood location is seen on August 5, 2015 in New York City. The women's health organization has come under fire from Republicans recently after an under cover video allegedly showed a Planned Parenthood executive discussing selling cells from aborted fetuses. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)