Joe Carter

A recent appellate court ruling in favor of a Westboro Baptist protester, says Carson Holloway , shows the decline of judicial ability to protect decency standards for public discourse: Rulings such as these do not arise merely from the preferences of liberal judges inclined to side with offensive . . . . Continue Reading »

What Sola Scriptura Does NOT Mean Credo House , C. Michael Patton The Great Orthodox Comeback Jewish Ideas Daily , Lawrence Grossman Divine Justice: The hidden story of Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Jewish opera Tablet , David Goldman In the Holy Land, a changed Christian world Associated Press What . . . . Continue Reading »

Income inequality is one of those pseudo-political issues that no one really thinks is an important issue. If anyone were truly concerned about unequal distributions of income they’d be willing to do something about it. But they aren’t. I’ve never met anyone who earns $40,000 a . . . . Continue Reading »

Shannon Love reminds us that what great-great-granddad would consider utopia is what we consider modern life : Star Trek is often used as a starting point for musing about this or that utopia because everything in Star Trek seems so wonderful. Star Trek is Gene Roddenberry‘s vision of New . . . . Continue Reading »

The Young Christian’s Guide to Sex at Seminary Philosophical Fragments , Timothy Dalrymple What Did Jerusalem Look Like in Bible Times? Between Two Worlds , Justin Taylor Galatians, Gospel Indicatives, and Gospel Imperatives The Gospel Coalition , Thabiti Anyabwile Adoption, Having Children, . . . . Continue Reading »

A New Jersey appeals court says a couple who named one of their children after Adolf Hitler should not regain custody of their three children: The family drew attention after ShopRite refused to decorate a birthday cake for their son, Adolf Hitler Campbell. Adolf and siblings JoyceLynn Aryan Nation . . . . Continue Reading »

There’s nothing worse than when you’re trying to hold a protest decrying inequality and promoting the distribution of wealth and some dirty poor people ruin it by trying to claim a share of what you have : The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” . . . . Continue Reading »

A Pro-life Win in Michigan NRO’s The Corner , Michael J. New Paul Did Not ‘Invent’ Christianity Huff Post Religion , Greg Carey Do candy bars ever go bad? Slate , Forrest Wickman Can Islamism and Feminism Mix? New York Times , Monica Marks 7 billion people and you: What’s . . . . Continue Reading »

[Note: This is my annual Halloween rant.] Every autumn Christians throughout North America engage in hand-wringing disputes over what to do about Halloween. The discussions tend to reflect in microcosm how we interact with overtly secular aspects on a larger scale. Should we separate and stand . . . . Continue Reading »

A recent article in the Yale Daily News contained a statistic that was so outlandish that I could hardly believe it could possibly be true. Marina Keegan says, If this year is anything like the last 10, around 25 percent of employed Yale graduates will enter the consulting or finance industry. . . . . Continue Reading »