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January 2017

January 27, 2017

The new culture war

The old culture war was about morality and was informed by religion. The new culture...

January 27, 2017

Marching for Life is getting somewhere

Today is the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., where thousands of pro-lifers will...

January 27, 2017

No, Trump isn’t censoring government agencies

The media is aghast that President Trump is requiring approval for website posts, clamping down...

January 26, 2017

“The crowd is untruth”

In our discussion of yesterday's post The Problem with Crowds, Stefan Stackhouse linked to an...

January 26, 2017

A world without property, privacy, freedom, or problems

Danish politician Ida Auken has written a provocative essay entitled Welcome to 2030. I own nothing,...

January 26, 2017

Trump’s immigration edicts

President Trump has issued executive orders that provide for the building of a wall on...

January 25, 2017

The problem with crowds

In a column in which he explains why he didn't go to the Inauguration, Jonah...

January 25, 2017

Fake News

Both sides of our political divide are accusing the other of spreading "fake news." Rev....

January 25, 2017

China pushing Communism to replace failing Democracy

China says Western democracy has reached its limits and has started to deteriorate (alluding to...

January 24, 2017

German government vs. Christian converts

The German government is mistreating ex-Muslim immigrants who have converted to Christianity, according to Rev. Gottfried Martens...

January 24, 2017

What Trump has done so far

Our new president has been busy. On his first weekday in office, he issued three...

January 24, 2017

When Jesse Jackson was pro-life and why he changed

In a tribute to the recently-deceased Nat Hentoff, Carl Trueman describes an encounter on a train...

January 23, 2017

Mathematical proof of God’s existence?

The great mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel, who died in 1978, left behind a series...

January 23, 2017

Many gods were invoked at the Inauguration service

The traditional Inauguration Service at the National Cathedral was an interfaith service featuring Hindus, Muslims,...

January 23, 2017

Susan B. Anthony and the other early feminists were pro-life

Feminists today hail the pioneers of women's rights, the suffragettes and 19th century activists who...

January 20, 2017

Donald Trump in Bible prophecy?

Many End Times preachers are saying that the rise of Donald Trump was prophesied in the...

January 20, 2017

Live-blogging the Inauguration

Being unable to resist significant moments in history, I'll be watching the Inauguration ceremonies today...

January 20, 2017

Moving day at the White House

The White House staff has five hours to move out the former president and his family,...

January 20, 2017

Pro-life women excluded from “Women’s March”

The day after Donald Trump's Inauguration, thousands of women will march on Washington to demonstrate...

January 19, 2017

Discovering a different way of doing youth ministry

Most youth ministries are shallow at best, and youth worship is even worse. An evangelical...

January 19, 2017

Planned Parenthood won’t report child sex-trafficking?

In 2011, a Live Action crew posing as sex traffickers, visited a number of Planned...

January 19, 2017

Who is funding the U.S. secessionist movements

California and Texas both have secessionist movements with the goal of breaking away from the...

January 18, 2017

Nationalism joins Islam as reasons for Christian persecution

Open Door, an organization that monitors Christian persecution, has released its annual report for 2016,...

January 18, 2017

Fear of the working class

The editor of a liberal website has written about a plumber he had called to fix...

January 18, 2017

Obama commutes Pvt. Manning’s sentence for leaking military secrets

In one of his last official acts, President Obama used his Constitutional power to grant pardons...

January 17, 2017

Who will pray at Trump’s inauguration

The six religious leaders who will offer prayers at Donald Trump's inauguration have been announced....

January 17, 2017

Trump vows trade deal with UK

In an interview with the London Times [subscription required], Donald Trump promised a quick trade...

January 17, 2017

Czech Republic tells citizens to arm themselves

The Czech Republic, perhaps the most pro-gun nation in Europe, has called on its citizens...

January 16, 2017

The world’s favorite Bible verses

Do you have the Bible app YouVersion on your phone? Over 255 million people from...

January 16, 2017

Trump’s moderating cabinet

So far the confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's cabinet picks suggests that his administration will...