The final paragraph of Justice Kennedy's decision is being hailed as an eloquent and humane expression that identifies what was really at stake in the marriage case: not the Constitutionality of traditional marriage laws, but the dignity and happiness of a particular group. Here is the full . . . . Continue Reading »
On the Banning and Burning of Flags
Joseph Pearce, The Imaginative Conservative
Marriage and the Court: The Expected Arrives
Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing
Are the Great Books Still Alive?
Josh Rogers, The Imaginative Conservative
Why Do Americans Drink Coffee?
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative
Message to the West: Don't Judge Continue Reading »
You haven’t kissed her yet?” A classmate furrows his brow, as if trying to understand some antiquarian cultural rite. “And you’ve been dating how long?” As a conservative Christian within a libertine college environment, I have heard variations of this same conversation played out . . . . Continue Reading »
In the aftermath of Friday’s Supreme Court decision, attention is turning toward the future of religious liberty. And if you read Justice Kennedy’s opinion on the ruling, you’ll quickly learn that if there’s to be any semblance of our historic understanding of religious liberty, there . . . . Continue Reading »
If American evangelicals are to succeed at Christian formation under the new cultural regime that the Supreme Court has just instituted in law, they must re-learn the Gospel of Christ as the word of an external authority worth loving, not the inner voice of their experience. Continue Reading »
Thanks for Everything, Justice Kennedy
Matthew J. Franck, Public Discourse
Archbishop Kurtz on Same Sex Marriage Ruling, and Where the Church Goes from Here
Joseph Kurtz, Our Sunday Visitor
A North Dakota Oil Boom Goes Bust
Mara Van Ells, The Atlantic
The ACLU Abandons Support of Religious Freedom
Daniel Allott, Washington Examiner
As the Culture Shifts on Marriage, Evangelicals Stand Firm
Russell Moore, National Review
Antonin Scalia as the Measure of How Far We Have to Go
Edward Peters, In the Light of the Law
The danger of domestic terrorism looms large today because of young Americans finding purpose in life through radical Islam. Continue Reading »
This has been a wild weekend. The Supreme Court handing down its decisive ruling that marriage is malleable was not surprising, but it created an air of certainty and solemnity to the fact that proponents of a traditional society—Christians, Jews, Muslims, and non-religious alike—have lost . . . . Continue Reading »
Many social conservatives are rightly disappointed and dismayed by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which effectively legalized same sex marriage in all 50 states. Many pundits—even those who disagree with the decision—are already advising conservatives to . . . . Continue Reading »
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