Opinion

• Agape Love Should Be Our Goal Jesus advised us in the so-called Golden Rule, “Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them” (Matthew 7:12). He also taught us to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39, quoting Leviticus 19:18).... Jan 12, 2023

  

  Agape Love Should Be Our Goal
• Denmark Secretly Inserted IUDs in Greenland's Women for Decades According to the BBC, doctors in Greenland inserted contraceptive devices into several thousand local women without their knowledge or consent. This was not a once-off action by a few rogue doctors. Rather, this was the result... Jan 11, 2023

  

  Denmark Secretly Inserted IUDs in Greenland's Women for Decades
• Pornography Dehumanizes Humans It is a tragic fact that our secularized postmodern culture has desacralized life from conception to death. It was once conventional wisdom that children in their mother’s womb were gifts from God to be cherished; now they are... Jan 11, 2023

  

  Pornography Dehumanizes Humans
• Are the Moms All Right? Busting the Myths about Motherhood Last fall, cultural observer and former BuzzFeed writer Anne Helen Petersen published an e-book about the difficulties of motherhood during the pandemic. Based on interviews with 1,000 women, her conclusions were telegraphed in... Jan 10, 2023

  Are the Moms All Right? Busting the Myths about Motherhood
• Democracy Requires the People to Be Worthy of the Power Entrusted to Them In other words, democracy (“the power of the people”) requires that the people be worthy of the power entrusted to them. But the “will to power,” the perennial temptation to “be like God” (Genesis 3:5), is ever with us. And it... Jan 10, 2023

  Democracy Requires the People to Be Worthy of the Power Entrusted to Them
• Repenting of Elitism and Chronological Snobbery In a world in which everyone and everything is superficially connected online, where there are an estimated 30 billion more cameras than people, and where “influencer” is an actual job title, style is easily confused with... Jan 09, 2023

  Repenting of Elitism and Chronological Snobbery
• The Latest on Damar Hamlin: Why I Agree with Religious Skeptics What are critics of religion thinking about this national response to the collapse of NFL player Damar Hamling? According to Swaim, “They will consider the whole pray-for-Damar episode a mass expression of some irrational... Jan 09, 2023

  The Latest on Damar Hamlin: Why I Agree with Religious Skeptics
• Epiphany, an Overlooked but Important Day Today could be the most significant Christian holiday that Christians know about the least. Epiphany, the 12th day of Christmas, was set aside in the Church calendar to remember the visitation of the Magi to the infant Jesus.... Jan 06, 2023

  Epiphany, an Overlooked but Important Day
• Two Years after the January 6 Capitol Riot, Do We Still Care? I’ll admit, my initial reaction when I realized that I would need to write about the second anniversary of the Capitol riots was somewhere between “not this again” and “I just don’t care.” That’s not to say that the breach of... Jan 06, 2023

  Two Years after the January 6 Capitol Riot, Do We Still Care?
• Triggering the Tingles: 'ASMR' Cannot Replace Human Presence Attempts to bypass the need for human presence and to receive pleasure at the press of a button may seem to work for a moment. They may even earn millions of YouTube subscribers. However, in the end, we will be left lonelier... Jan 05, 2023

  Triggering the Tingles: 'ASMR' Cannot Replace Human Presence