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September 2015

September 17, 2015

Russell Moore on Evangelicals and Donald Trump

The strongest word yet on evangelicals and Donald Trump comes from Russell Moore this morning...

September 16, 2015

Going to Church, Skipping Donald Trump

Keith Miller writes a very helpful piece for The Federalist, demonstrating that reports of evangelical...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Looking for Abortion Truth in Big Media

As a general rule, I don't think conservatives should constantly harp about the bias of...

August 24, 2015

I Protested Planned Parenthood

I asked my friend Sean Perron to write about Saturday's Planned Parenthood protest. Sean works...

August 19, 2015

At Planned Parenthood, Beating Hearts Are Stopped

The newest video from the Center for Medical Progress is a horror beyond a nightmare....

August 10, 2015

“I Don’t Know If I’m Pro-Choice Anymore”

Your must read of the day is by Ruben Navarrette Jr. at The Daily Beast ....

July 2015

July 30, 2015

What Cecil the Lion and Planned Parenthood Taught Me About #AllLivesMatter

For myself and many of my fellow pro-lifers, the last few days have been a...

July 28, 2015

“The Moment I Grabbed the Leg…I Felt Death and Pain”

I remember my first day...I was with one of my trainers. I walk in and...

July 24, 2015

Flags and Fetal Tissue

"The debate over the fate of the flag, such as it is, pits people who...

July 14, 2015

Time to Shut Down Planned Parenthood

An undercover video has recorded Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's Senior Director for Medical Services, revealing...

July 13, 2015

Vote “No” On Crank Conservatism

A couple weeks ago I was making the 3 hour drive from Columbus, Ohio to...

July 08, 2015

Can Public Schools Define “Family”? (Spoiler: They Already Do)

Will Saletan, a writer for Slate, posted this to Twitter this afternoon. Just so...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Same-Sex Marriage: 7 Questions for the Victors

It was to very few's surprise that the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday to...

June 19, 2015

Why Flying the Confederate Flag Isn’t a Conservative Thing to Do

The horrific and terroristic murder of 9 black Americans in Charlestown, South Carolina, while they...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

#PrayForMarriage

I invite you to join many Christians around the nation in praying today as the...

April 14, 2015

A Conversation Between “Safe,” “Legal,” and “Rare”

The following is an edited version of the transcript of conversation between abortion talking points...

April 09, 2015

What’s a Conscience Worth?

Consider this a brief, concluding postscript to my 4-article (!) conversation about religious freedom and the RFRA....

April 07, 2015

How RFRA Helps Us Love Our Neighbors

In the sincere hope, dear reader, that soon we may speak of other things, let me...

April 04, 2015

Do Christians Mean What They Say? A response to Frank Bruni

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni doesn't believe that Christians who are opposed to same-sex...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Who Are the Liberals?

If there's anything in store for American political discourse more absurd or uninformed than the...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

Scott Walker Doesn’t Know if Obama Is a Christian (And Neither Do I)

Governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Scott Walker says he doesn't know if President Obama is...

February 20, 2015

How Addiction Votes

Carl Trueman has written several fine pieces lately on both the nature of and antidote to our...

February 19, 2015

Surrendering Earth to Thugs: How Atheism Empowers ISIS

By now many of you have surely either read or seen mentioned Graeme Wood's cover...

February 02, 2015

Marriage and Me

My mother and I were sitting across from each other at the dinner table, talking...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

The Pioneer of Blogging Says Goodbye

I owe a debt of gratitude to Andrew Sullivan. We've never met; actually, we've never...

January 23, 2015

The Proud Single-Issue Voter

This week began with Sanctity of Life Sunday, a day declared by President Reagan and observed...

January 22, 2015

Abolition vs Abortion

John C. Calhoun, "Slavery, A Positive Good:" But I take higher ground. I hold that in...

January 21, 2015

The State of the Union, Abortion, and the President’s Hollow Plea

Tuesday night, President Obama delivered his next-to-last State of the Union address. It was forgettable...

January 09, 2015

For Blasphemy and For Evangelism

I had an older professor in Bible college who was responsible for teaching survey courses through...

January 07, 2015

“The Prophet Has Been Avenged”

Horror and heartbreak in Paris: Three masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a...