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February 2017

February 23, 2017

Are evangelicals responsible for Milo?

How did the gay, profane, iconoclastic Milo Yiannopoulos get to be a poster child for...

February 23, 2017

Trump on bathrooms, immigration enforcement

President Trump keeps doing what he was elected to do, thereby sending his opponents into...

February 23, 2017

Pluto might get promoted back to “planet”

The recent space probe to Pluto revealed it to be no mere frozen rock but...

February 22, 2017

Do foreigners have constitutional rights?

The Supreme Court has taken up a case that will decide whether or not foreigners--even...

February 22, 2017

The fall of the gay right-winger

Conservatives used to have moral qualms about homosexuality, but Milo Yiannopoulos had become a right wing...

February 22, 2017

Parents who regret having children

A new category of victims has emerged in feminist and other progressive circles: "regretful parents."...

February 21, 2017

What the Reformation did for preaching

Evangelical theologian Timothy George has written a fascinating and illuminating post entitled "How the Reformation...

February 21, 2017

Intersectionality

If you are going to understand and navigate the complexities of oppression, victimhood, and political...

February 21, 2017

Starving patients to death

Euthanasia laws have a way of expanding. Once a society accepts the concept that sick...

February 21, 2017

Trump’s appointment do-overs

President Trump seems to have chosen some well-qualified replacements for his original picks for Labor...

February 20, 2017

What’s the true meaning of Presidents’ Day?

Happy Presidents' Day. What are we really celebrating today? Originally, it was George Washington's Birthday,...

February 20, 2017

And now the conservative Generation Z

Forget Millennials. A new generation is coming of age: Generation-Z. It's being heralded as the...

February 20, 2017

The death and new life of “Jane Roe”

Norma McCorvey, who went by the name of "Jane Roe" in the infamous Roe v....

February 17, 2017

The pastor who baptized a murderer

Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death for murdering nine African-Americans at a Bible study,...

February 17, 2017

Survey finds 2 million non-citizens illegally registered to vote

A 2013 survey of Hispanics in America found that of the 56% who were here...

February 17, 2017

Bringing back the woolly mammoth

A team of scientists working on "de-extinction" says that they hope to engineer a woolly...

February 16, 2017

A new approach to evangelism

The traditional approach to evangelism, according to Ed Stetzer of Christianity Today, has started with presenting...

February 16, 2017

Are U.S. spies staging a “soft coup” against the Trump administration?

President Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn lost his job because someone leaked records from his...

February 16, 2017

Trump’s labor secretary pick withdraws

President Trump's pick for labor secretary, Andrew Puzder, withdrew, after several Republicans in the Senate...

February 15, 2017

Run it like a business?

President Trump is reported to be understandably frustrated that the government can't be run like a business....

February 15, 2017

Inflation may be coming back

Prices rose in January more than they have for four years. And the effect is...

February 15, 2017

Is the Russian military testing Trump?

A Russian spy ship was spotted Tuesday sailing just off the U.S. east coast. Also...

February 14, 2017

The two kinds of romantic love

One kind of romantic love leads to life--to marriage, fruitful sexuality, children, family, virtue. The...

February 14, 2017

And now multigender

How many genders are there? Jenny Crofton says an infinite number. And that each person...

February 14, 2017

Trump’s national security advisor resigns

Michael Flynn, President Trump's national security advisor, has resigned. He was caught negotiating with the...

February 13, 2017

Why is Cedar Rapids so Godless?

Iowa defines the American heartland, with its staunch Midwestern values and rural American virtues. Though its...

February 13, 2017

An obituary for a contemptible life

Obituaries summarize the events of the life of the deceased, a way of honoring the...

February 13, 2017

Chicken sacrifices and overturning the travel ban

We now have an answer questions about the appeals court's legal reasoning in throwing out...

February 10, 2017

The formal and the material principles of theology

The "formal principle" of a particular theology is its source and authority. The "material principle"...

February 10, 2017

Appeals court rejects Trump’s immigration ban

The lower court that blocked President Trump's ban on immigrants from seven terrorist-plagued countries was upheld...