In the latest issue of The Living Church , I review James Brownson’s new book Bible, Gender, Sexuality . Here’s my summary of the book’s main argument: Brownson argues that . . . gender complementarity is nowhere “explicitly portrayed or discussed” in Scripture. Genesis . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Jackson joins the conversation about the question “Why are there Calvinist Baptists but no Lutheran Baptists?” in today’s column : There are plenty of Lutherans who interact with evangelicalism, but they do so by laying aside their Lutheran theology. They come to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Cardinal Dolan calls the faithful to fortitude “even to the shedding of your blood,” says William Doino Jr. in today’s column , yet the archdiocese is still paying for contraception and abortion. “The intricate arguments they make about cooperating and not cooperating . . . . Continue Reading »
Larry Taunton, executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation , reports on the findings of a project involving interviewing college students belonging to Secular Student Alliances and Freethought Societies: Using the Fixed Point Foundation website, email, my Twitter, and my Facebook page, we . . . . Continue Reading »
Dean Koontz recently released the latest installment in his Odd Thomas series, Deeply Odd . These supernatural thrillers have gained quite a following among conservatives because the books reject moral relativism and critique America’s political correctness. Though they are thrillers, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Substitutionary Atonement and Disgraced Politicians Jake Meador, Mere Orthodoxy Outing Scientism Peter Lawler, Weekly Standard In Defense of Andrew Greeley Fr. Robert Barron, RealClearReligion 1913: The World Before the Fall Jacob Heilbrunn, Daily Beast Naturalism in the News Edward Feser . . . . Continue Reading »
An introduction that proves to be a deep and thought-provoking, and even convicting, introduction: Leon Kass on The Ten Commandments , with the subtitled “Why the Decalogue Matters.” For example, this summary of “Honor thy father and thy mother”: Summing up: the . . . . Continue Reading »
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Liberty Forum at the Online Library of Law and Liberty posted an essay this month by George Mason Professor Frank Buckley arguing that the ministerial form of executive government in parliamentary systems better protects liberty than does the presidential form of executive government in . . . . Continue Reading »
The postmodern age is open to hearing that we all have worldviews—basic assumptions that spool into a narrative about who we are, where we come from, and what we ought to be doing. Whether we come to our worldviews through a kind of cultural osmosis, or whether we stand upon well-articulated . . . . Continue Reading »
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