Opinion

• The Danger of Performative Truth “We have become a nation that is more focused on the right to kill than the right to live.” This is how California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to the mass shooting in Allen, Texas, as he criticized Congress for not passing... May 10, 2023

  

  The Danger of Performative Truth
• The Great Book Ban Panic of 2023 Three months ago, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Maine read a passage from a book to his local school board. It described a sexual encounter between two teenage boys. When he found the book in the library of his public... May 10, 2023

  

  The Great Book Ban Panic of 2023
• Solzhenitsyn's Graduation Speech Revisited Though few college commencement speakers these days dare to defy conventional wisdom or the secularism that undergirds it, on June 8, 1978, Solzhenitsyn’s stunning address not only made those assembled there uncomfortable, it... May 09, 2023

  

  Solzhenitsyn's Graduation Speech Revisited
• What If We Allowed God to Define Our Life Mission? Warren Buffett is chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns dozens of companies. He has been extremely benevolent over the years, donating hundreds of millions of dollars to charitable causes. Forbes estimates his... May 09, 2023

  What If We Allowed God to Define Our Life Mission?
• Why Avoiding Suffering at All Cost Undermines Compassion and Medicine Is pain good or bad?This was the question asked recently by physician and author Matthew Loftus in an essay entitled “Arcs of Life” published in The New Atlantis. Loftus makes the case that the contemporary obsession with... May 08, 2023

  Why Avoiding Suffering at All Cost Undermines Compassion and Medicine
• Finding Grace in the Midst of Unspeakable Grief In a brilliant new essay for the Atlantic, columnist David Brooks identifies two ways of approaching life: autonomy-based and gift based.Autonomy-based living is the basis for elective abortion, the sexual revolution, gender... May 08, 2023

  Finding Grace in the Midst of Unspeakable Grief
• The Historic Connection Between Sierra Leone and William Wilberforce The 2023 Wilberforce Award recipient is Shodankeh Johnson, a pastor and church planter in Sierra Leone. The award was named after William Wilberforce, whose work as an English politician led to the abolishment of slavery in... May 05, 2023

  The Historic Connection Between Sierra Leone and William Wilberforce
• Texas Senate Passes Bill Requiring the Ten Commandments in Public School Classrooms “We think there can be a restoration of faith in America, and we think getting [the] Ten Commandments on these walls is a great way to do that. … We think we can really set a trend for the rest of the country.” Matt Krause, a... May 05, 2023

  Texas Senate Passes Bill Requiring the Ten Commandments in Public School Classrooms
• How to See God More in Your Daily Life Since the creation of the world, we were designed for complete, total, uninhibited intimacy with God. The kind of intimacy that is described in Psalm 17:8: “Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your... May 04, 2023

  How to See God More in Your Daily Life
• 'Technoshamanism': Why a Post-Christian Future Is Still Religious In the history of the world, the wholesale rejections of the supernatural is a quirk of Western secularism. At the same time, it will not ultimately survive the human longing for transcendence and communion with the... May 04, 2023

  'Technoshamanism': Why a Post-Christian Future Is Still Religious