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September 2019

September 19, 2019

How the Government Can Constitutionally Support Religion

We have been blogging about debates among conservative Christians and political conservatives over the best...

September 06, 2019

Religious Liberty, Freedom of Speech, and the Right to Not Make Videos

Anti-discrimination laws applied to same-sex marriage and other LGBT issues often conflict with the Constitution's...

September 04, 2019

From Population Explosion to Population Collapse

Fifty years ago, people were in a panic about the prospects of a population...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

“Heterosexuality Is Just Not Working”

If homophobia is the disapproval and fear of homosexuality, we now also have what we could...

August 25, 2019

Our Book on Family Vocation Is On Sale This Week, for Cheap

Crossway is holding a sale on the e-book of Family Vocation: God's Calling in Marriage,...

July 2019

July 17, 2019

The Benefits of Boredom

When we were raising our children, there were some words that we did not allow...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

The Women of Proverbs & the Bible’s Family Dramas

The estimable Peter Leithart has written a must-read piece in First Things entitled Heroic Domesticity. It begins...

April 2019

April 16, 2019

“Moral Relativism Meets Privilege Theory”

In Great Britain, the LGBT+ ideology has free rein. When a special curriculum promoting that...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

The Difference between Conservatives & Progressives–and Christians

British author Will Jones has written a perceptive article on the difference between conservatives and...

March 20, 2019

The College Admissions Scandal vs. Classical Christian Education

The college admissions scandal keeps growing. The mastermind behind the cheating and bribery scheme says...

March 04, 2019

Acceptance for Pedophiles

One by one, our sexual taboos have been falling. According to our pop culture,...

February 2019

February 04, 2019

Cities & Suburbs Using “Vasectomy Zoning” to Keep Out Children

Aborting viable and full term babies isn't the only anti-child, anti-family policy gaining in popularity. ...

January 2019

January 18, 2019

How the Left Gave Us “Toxic Masculinity”

Complaints about "toxic masculinity" often come across as complaints about "masculinity." The Gillette ad on...

January 07, 2019

Tucker Carlson: Conservatives Should Stop Idolizing Capitalism

Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, a conservative and a Trump supporter, gave an answer to...

December 2018

December 11, 2018

The Problem with Evangelical Vows of Celibacy

The "Abstinence Movement or the "evangelical purity culture," call it what you will, is getting...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Josh Harris Recants “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”

Josh Harris launched the "courtship movement" with his book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Instead of...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Waiting for Babies to Choose Their Gender for Themselves

Some parents refuse to take their children to church so that they can choose their...

July 09, 2018

The Sexual Revolution & Big Government

My former colleague Stephen Baskerville has published a powerful book on how the sexual revolution...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

The Created Order

The doctrine of creation means more than opposing evolution. It teaches that there is a...

June 12, 2018

How Legalizing Gay Marriage Also Oppresses Gays

One of the bêtes noires of the hard, hard left is "heteronormativity," the view that heterosexual...

June 01, 2018

Star Wars Sex

Brian Truitt of USA Today complains that there isn't any sex in the Star Wars universe...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

We Are No Longer Reproducing Ourselves

The fertility rate in the United States has taken a nose-dive, dropping to 1.76 births...

May 28, 2018

Memory Day

Memorial Day should include memories. The holiday was established specifically to remember those who died defending...

May 22, 2018

Why Would a High School Kid Shoot His Classmates?

We had yet another high school shooting, with 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis in Santa Fe, Texas, prowling...

May 07, 2018

Another Look at How Fathers Influence Their Children’s Churchgoing

Nathan Rinne, who blogs with Jordan Cooper at Just and Sinner here at Patheos, discusses...

May 04, 2018

On Catholics’ “Indissolubility” of Marriage from a New Lutheran Blog

I have blogged about my former student John Ehrett, who wrote that perceptive review of...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

The Consequences of Gendercide in China and India

China and India have been practicing gendercide--that is, the systematic abortion of female babies--for decades. ...

April 19, 2018

Two Years in Prison for “Acting on His Religion”

A Mennonite pastor has just been released after spending two years in prison--the full term...

April 13, 2018

Churches’ Contempt for Men

Matthew Cochran, a Concordia Theological Seminary lay graduate who blogs at 96th Thesis has a...

April 11, 2018

How Can Churches Retain Their Youth?

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has sponsored two research projects on the retention of young...