After a teaching career of fifty years, I agree with E. D. Hirsch that the primary problem in American public education is not the high schools, but the poorly organized, ineffective elementary school curricula, including the idiotic books of childish fiction. Continue Reading »
Observing the online reaction to my column, I fear I was misunderstood. Some apparently read it as a brief for the primacy of the “spiritual” over the “political.” That isn’t my view. I advocate instead the deconstruction of the spiritual/political dualism and the primacy of ecclesial politics. Continue Reading »
Here are two forthcoming books that are worth reading not only for themselves but also for the larger conversations they represent. Continue Reading »
Dr. Bradley Nassif’s reasoned, orthodox views on marriage and human sexuality have cost him his career at North Park University, an institution formally connected to the theologically conservative Evangelical Covenant Church. Continue Reading »
Indeed, political propaganda can deceive—but art derived from experience rarely does. Continue Reading »
The West has adopted aspects of the old Kremlin mentality. Continue Reading »
This instinct for solidarity is one marker of a living Christian culture. Continue Reading »
Good leaders do, of course, listen to their people. In the Church, as in any family, they have the duty to know, respect, and love the persons in their care. But they’re leaders and guides, not followers or mere presiders. Continue Reading »
With the referendums on marriage and abortion comfortably won, with gender self-ID written into law, where next for a country that has staked its new identity on a maximalist adoption of liberalism? Continue Reading »
In previous times, people who did not agree with the teaching of Humanae Vitae or Donum Vitae simply said that they begged to differ. The new approach, adopted by the PAV, is to state the opposite of the teaching, while at the same time claiming that one agrees. Continue Reading »
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