Another heartbreaking mass shooting happened late Thursday evening, in Lafayette, Louisiana. As of now it appears two victims have died, and another nine are injured. The gunman also killed himself.Numerous calls for prayer have been issued, including from the governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal. . . . . Continue Reading »
Recent revelations that Planned Parenthood is trafficking in human organs—obtained from unborn children killed in the organization’s abortion clinics—have prompted a righteous outrage from many commentators. Anyone with a shred of decency is appalled at the barbarity for which Planned . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelical leaders weigh in on what they see coming in the next five years. Continue Reading »
An editor's comment points to the ridiculous linguistic gymnastics the New Left is now inflicting upon itself. The Age of Gibberish has arrived.
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Crush Planned Parenthood
Kirsten Powers, USA Today
Time for Rush Limbaugh to Smother Trump
Matt Lewis, Daily Beast
Surrogacy and Same-Sex Marriage: A Tale of Two Countries
Christopher White, Public Discourse
AP poll: Downtick on support for same-sex marriage. Mainstream media: (shrug)
Jim Davis, Get Religion
More and more, one of our two major political parties is identifying itself as secular, and the other as religious. That’s a very bad thing for America. Continue Reading »
Utilitarian Arguments for the Family: A Recipe for Failure
Bruce Frohnen, The Imaginative Conservative
Cuba and America: The End of an Estrangement
John Lee Anderson, The New Yorker
6 Things Christians Can Do About Same-Sex Marriage
Sean McDowell and John Stonestreet, The Gospel Coalition
Pope Francis Has Chosen Social Media Star Robert Barron for Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post
Clickbait titles are rampant on the Internet, but I was still surprised to see William Baude’s article “Is Polygamy Next?” in the morning print edition of the New York Times.The thrust of his argument is that marriage and child rearing is an experiment which has been suppressed throughout . . . . Continue Reading »
A ‘Modest Proposal’, Planned Parenthood edition
Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
Wheaton College May Have to ‘Outsource Sin'
Timothy C. Morgan and Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Christianity Today
Digital Imaging ‘Unwraps' 1,500-Year-Old Biblical Scroll
Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Forward
‘There's No Real Fight Against Drugs’
Ginger Thompson, The Atlantic
Last week was a momentous one for the European project. On Monday, the Greek Parliament passed an austerity package that other Eurozone members, especially Germany, had demanded as a condition for considering Greece’s request for an €86 bailout. Negotiations will now begin. How they will end is . . . . Continue Reading »
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