Opinion

• We Can Never Fully Avoid the Consequences of a Wrong Decision From the moment the Dodgers chose to honor a group that so overtly dishonors core Christian principles and, more explicitly, the Catholic expression of those principles, they were headed down a difficult path. That they made... May 19, 2023

  

  We Can Never Fully Avoid the Consequences of a Wrong Decision
• Don’t Be Fooled: Charity Has Always Been Religious According to the state of Wisonsin, because Catholic Charities is engaged in purely charitable activities—giving to the poor, caring for the needy, and looking out for the downtrodden—they cannot claim a religious exemption.... May 18, 2023

  

  Don’t Be Fooled: Charity Has Always Been Religious
• What Happens When We Eat Forbidden Fruit? As we noted yesterday, God’s judgment against our sins is certain. But sins also bring their own consequences. The “just penalty” for them “always pursues” those who commit them.Infidelity destroys marriages; pornography... May 18, 2023

  

  What Happens When We Eat Forbidden Fruit?
• The SBC Loses Nearly Half a Million More Members I get absolutely no pleasure in relaying that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), America’s largest Protestant denomination, lost nearly half a million more people in 2022, adding to the three million lost since 2006. It is... May 18, 2023

  The SBC Loses Nearly Half a Million More Members
• Girls and the Transgender 'Hockey Stick' In his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore famously showed an image that became an icon of global warming. The so-called “hockey stick” graph plotted global temperatures over the centuries,... May 17, 2023

  Girls and the Transgender 'Hockey Stick'
• Only Jesus Christ Can Change the Human Heart Here’s the reason: only Jesus Christ can change the human heart so that “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17).As a result, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”... May 17, 2023

  Only Jesus Christ Can Change the Human Heart
• Is the Trend of Romanticizing Your Life a Healthy Christian Practice? “Romanticize your life” is a phrase you’ll see in the captions everywhere. The posts feature young women drinking luscious matcha lattes, putting on facemasks, lighting candles in their bedrooms, or journaling in nature. The... May 16, 2023

  Is the Trend of Romanticizing Your Life a Healthy Christian Practice?
• New Index Tracks How Friendly Companies Are to Certain Views For years, JPMorgan Chase has had its thumb on the scale of the culture wars through an unfair practice called “de-banking.” By rejecting payment processes and closing accounts of politically conservative and... May 16, 2023

  New Index Tracks How Friendly Companies Are to Certain Views
• Christ Is the Only Cure for the Sickness of Sin, the Depravity of the Human Condition There is ultimately only one cure for the sickness of sin and the depravity of the human condition. Being religious is not enough—many churches and church leaders in Germany tragically and heretically supported Hitler’s... May 16, 2023

  Christ Is the Only Cure for the Sickness of Sin, the Depravity of the Human Condition
• Faith Communities Have an Opportunity to Lead Discussions on the Safe Immigration of Youth Collectively we can do better. Nearly every week, we read a new tragic headline and story of unaccompanied children and youth from Central America meeting some horrific end while attempting to immigrate to the US. In the... May 15, 2023

  Faith Communities Have an Opportunity to Lead Discussions on the Safe Immigration of Youth