Opinion

• NY Abortion Ruling: How to Move from Success to Significance Let’s begin with this shocking headline: “America’s favorite Valentine’s Day candy is unavailable this year.” Necco, the original producer of Sweethearts candy, went out of business last July. The candy’s new owner promises to... Jan 25, 2019

  

  NY Abortion Ruling: How to Move from Success to Significance
• Planned Parenthood and the African-American Community Does Planned Parenthood target blacks? That is what Dr. Martin Luther King’s niece thinks. Jan 24, 2019

  

  Planned Parenthood and the African-American Community
• Colorado Ain’t Getting Jack: Pushing Too Far On my New Year’s Day BreakPoint, I said that among the most important stories to watch this year is the ongoing conflict between religious freedom and LGBT rights. I quoted Chai Feldblum, a former Georgetown Law School... Jan 24, 2019

  

  Colorado Ain’t Getting Jack: Pushing Too Far
• Why Is the Media Biased? Savannah Guthrie, one of the anchors on NBC’s Today show, interviewed Covington student Nick Sandmann yesterday morning. I watched the interview, then watched the response. It was as though two completely different... Jan 24, 2019

  Why Is the Media Biased?
• Thunderous Applause: We Can Kill Our Children at Nine Months I could not believe what I was reading: People actually applauded the slaughtering of children. Was I having a dream . . . a nightmare? Was this real? Jan 23, 2019

  Thunderous Applause: We Can Kill Our Children at Nine Months
• The Media’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week: When News Becomes a Game of “Gotcha” No one at Twitter, Buzzfeed, or the Washington Post got gum stuck in their hair, or fell into a mud puddle or got stuck with lima beans for dinner –at least as far as I know. But, still, last week wasn’t great for the American... Jan 23, 2019

  The Media’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week: When News Becomes a Game of “Gotcha”
• The ‘Racist’ Confrontation in DC: 3 Biblical Responses Nathan Phillips is a Native American who attended the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington last Friday. He told the Washington Post that he was there to beat his drum while urging participants to “be strong” against... Jan 23, 2019

  The ‘Racist’ Confrontation in DC: 3 Biblical Responses
• Believing Means Belonging: Why Jesus Commands Church Membership The central practice of the Christian life, at least biblically speaking, is gathering together as Christ’s body for corporate worship, for hearing the Word, and for participating in the sacraments. “Going to church” as we say... Jan 22, 2019

  Believing Means Belonging: Why Jesus Commands Church Membership
• What Martin Luther King Jr.’s Niece Says about Abortion The logic against abortion seems simple. Ronald Reagan: “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” Pope Francis states the case succinctly: “The right to life is the first among human rights.” Jan 22, 2019

  What Martin Luther King Jr.’s Niece Says about Abortion
• MLK and Beloved Community: Reconciliation and Restoration A recent New York Times story described how the federal government shutdown was impacting a small town in Florida’s panhandle. The story’s “angle” was that the town that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump two years ago was... Jan 21, 2019

  MLK and Beloved Community: Reconciliation and Restoration