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Another Independence Day has come and gone, and as always, the holiday elicited much waxing lyrical about the greatness of America.

• 07/09/2015
• 2 Comments
• Tag: Culture Government

Ms. Geller has made a latter-day career out of her crusade against the influence of political Islam and jihadism in America. Author and operator of the blog "Atlas Shrugs," and co-founder of the organization "Stop Islamization of America," she drew n..

• 06/11/2015
• 0 Comments
• Tag: Islam ISIS

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past month, you're undoubtedly familiar with the controversy surrounding Indiana's "religious freedom" law. Debates on this issue ultimately boil down to a question of liberty v. justice.

• 04/09/2015
• 15 Comments
• Tag: Religious Freedom

Last weekend marked the 50th anniversary since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the march from Selma to Birmingham, a "bloody Sunday" in which police officers attempting to stop the march launched tear gas and brutalized dozens. President Obama travel..

• 03/12/2015
• 3 Comments
• Tag: Barack Obama Culture Race/Multi-Ethnic

Needless to say, enough ink and airtime and bandwidth have been expended excoriating the President on this point. So much so that a second and perhaps more fundamentally problematic issue with his speech has gone unaddressed.

• 02/11/2015
• 2 Comments
• Tag: Islam Barack Obama Politics Evangelicals Conflict/War Religious Freedom ISIS

Sociologist Mark Regnerus recently penned an essay for Public Discourse in which he discusses two competing understandings of human dignity.

• 01/14/2015
• 0 Comments
• Tag: Family issues Politics Evangelicals

Needless to say, I spent much of my early twenties participating in American party culture, and I'm lucky I made it through those years relatively unscathed.

• 12/17/2014
• 33 Comments
• Tag: Culture Politics Crime

I had an abortion. I was not in a libertine college-girl phase, although frankly it's none of your business.

• 11/19/2014
• 11 Comments
• Tag: Abortion Politics Books

As a Christian and a conservative, I don't often find myself in agreement with liberal comedian Bill Maher and atheist author Sam Harris. I found Maher's so called documentary, Religulous, fatuous and intellectually dishonest.

• 10/14/2014
• 15 Comments
• Tag: Culture Politics

One of the primary critiques of religion popular among New Atheists and secularists generally is that it is arrogant and close-minded for any group to claim a monopoly on truth.

• 07/29/2014
• 7 Comments
• Tag: Culture Politics Evangelicals

As a Christian, I'm quite familiar with this passage, and always took it as an admonition against the kind of "worldly" sins addressed in this particular Pauline epistle. Be honest, love your neighbor, don't be a lover of material things, shun the pl..

• 07/02/2014
• 3 Comments
• Tag: Barack Obama Culture Politics Religious Freedom

A close relative of mine was recently diagnosed with cancer and has begun aggressive treatment at the Mayo Clinic. I was discussing the situation with my grandfather and mentioned the shock we all felt when we discovered how pricey cancer treatments ..

• 06/03/2014
• 1 Comments
• Tag: Health Care Politics

My mother and stepfather were recently privy to a conversation between a good female friend and myself.

• 05/07/2014
• 1 Comments
• Tag: Culture Family issues Politics Evangelicals

It's been over 30 years since the Supreme Court ruled that a woman's right to privacy includes the right to electively terminate the life of her unborn child. In that relatively short span of time, abortion has evolved from a highly controversial soc..

• 04/09/2014
• 1 Comments
• Tag: Abortion Culture Family issues Politics Evangelicals

The Lenten season is upon us once more, and like many Christians, in an attempt to honor God's faithfulness to his Church and in the hopes of deepening my own faith I have decided to engage in a fast of sorts. Inspired by a good friend of mine, I wil..

• 03/12/2014
• 0 Comments
• Tag: Culture Politics Evangelicals

According to pervading political stereotypes, Progressives are the group concerned with and committed to the betterment of the "common man" while Conservatives are characterized by a parochial desire to preserve the institutions and traditions that h..

• 02/11/2014
• 3 Comments
• Tag: Politics

Occupy Wall Street activist and "independent journalist" Jesse Myerson recently made waves when he penned a piece for Rolling Stone in which he laid out five major policy priorities that Millennials should be fighting for, including such novel concep..

• 01/15/2014
• 2 Comments
• Tag: Youth Politics