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Carl R. Trueman
In declaring that it is inappropriate for a straight actor to play a gay man on screen, Hanks negates the importance of the shared humanity that makes him empathetic in the first place. Continue Reading »
First Things friendships respect differences as opportunities, not roadblocks, for constructive engagement with the world. Continue Reading »
If the Pride flag cannot even hold together the community for which it claims to stand, how can it possibly offer a stable vision for a nation and its national culture? Continue Reading »
Only as we bow in awe before such the Triune God of glory will our present sufferings seem but light and momentary. Only then will holiness be the obvious mark of the church. Continue Reading »
While threats to disrupt worship en masse and even burn the sacramental elements seem to be overblown so far, the backlash against religion is surely a sign of the times. Continue Reading »
The news that Baylor University has officially chartered Prism, an LGBT student organization on campus, marks an important moment in Christian higher education in the USA. Continue Reading »
The recent letter to Boris Johnson from a number of British religious leaders is an example of how sentimental mush has come to replace careful moral reasoning in the minds of so many. Continue Reading »
The West no longer has any consensus on what it means to be a woman or even a person. Continue Reading »
Real women should be afraid, very afraid: Their rights are being protected by those who do not even know what a woman is. Continue Reading »
There is a clear push to grant LGBTQ+ ideology a favored legal and cultural status that enforces it without compromise, with any dissent labelled as morally evil. Continue Reading »
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