Members of traditional religions became moral outlaws in the United States once equal rights for sexual preference and gender choice were enshrined in regulation and law. This Inquisition, though, will not be defeated by reasoned pleas but by concerted counterattacks. Continue Reading »
It's not disengagement from politics; it's a continuation of the culture war's bad politics. Continue Reading »
Dispatches from a recent lecture by Rod Dreher.
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The Culture War is over. Culture is dead, the coup de grace inflicted by an Unholy Trinity. Now begins the Age of the Anti-Culture. Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat’s Erasmus lecture, “A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,” and Carl Trueman’s column, “Is There A Crisis in Conservative Protestantism?” put me in mind to think about the American Church. That said, I’m more of a “not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper” kind of guy, not that . . . . Continue Reading »
The Mormons know how to keep everyone guessing. A week ago, they were looking more and more like the liberals in the conservative-on-sexual-matters religious world. Last month, LDS apostle Dallin H. Oaks surprised church members by publicly criticizing defiant Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, and earlier . . . . Continue Reading »
As the Synod on the Family continues, a number of Catholic writers are questioning whether it’s really nice to exclude the divorced and remarried from Communion. The people on the margins of the church, the people oppressed by sin and circumstance are the ones who can least weather being pushed . . . . Continue Reading »
Does the Church actually need a new (or new old) option? Continue Reading »
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