The vast revolutions in morality that have reshaped the modern landscape have been spectacularly successful, with very few exceptions. In the last hal...
With Christmas just days away, the Vatican evidently thought it was high time to reverse 2,000 years of Christian tradition and allow priests to bless...
Most of us know we’re living in consequential times, but sometimes it seems we’re living in truly dangerous times. Just over the course of the last fe...
So, what about the new speaker of the House? Is he a kind and gracious man or “a right-wing fever dream come to life,” as one columnist declared? Actu...
What in the world is going on in Israel? A political controversy has catapulted the nation into world headlines and some warn that the nation faces an existential crisis. Sources close to the Biden administration warn that the close relationship betw ...
I know, I know. August is a bit late for the release of a "summer reading list." I can only plead necessity. I divide my reading into three major categories: First, books I must read for doing the work I do. Second, books I need to read for lifetime ...
The American constitutional order is now on trial. With the indictment of a former president on criminal charges—including violations of the Espionage Act—we have entered a new political age. Our entire system of ordered liberty, a political culture ...
“These are the boys of Point du Hoc,” declared President Ronald Reagan in 1984, as the free world celebrated the 40th anniversary of D-Day and as waves crashed into the cliffs of Normandy. The man met the hour in that speech, and with the world watch ...
The East African nation of Uganda made big news this week as President Yoweri Museveni signed legislation establishing what The New York Times called “an anti-gay law” that was “condemned by the United Nations the European Union and rights groups.” W ...
Unconditional surrenders usually require overwhelming military force, but all it took for the Los Angeles Dodgers to abandon the field was a bit of controversy with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The white flag of capitulation now flies over Do ...
John Calvin once remarked that Biblical preaching, clearly based upon the inspired Word of God, was nothing less than “God speaking by the mouth of a man.” For decades of ministry, one of those men was Harry Reeder. Dr. Reeder, senior pastor of Briar ...
The coronation of King Charles III went off pretty much as planned, with pomp and ceremony designed to invoke a thousand years of history, tradition, national identity, and royal majesty. Observers might be forgiven for wondering just how the elabora ...
The last time a monarch was crowned in Britain, a very small 4-year-old boy, his hair plastered to his head with polish, wiggled as he sat in Westminster Abbey, feet away from the queen. The queen was his mother. Tomorrow, that queen’s son, King Char ...
One of my favorite preachers used to say that the most confused creature on earth is a dog that finally catches up with a garbage truck. After chasing that truck for years, the dog suddenly catches up with the truck. Now comes the hard part. What doe ...