Per Christianity Today, “Wheaton College today joined other religious institutions in filing lawsuits over the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services mandate. President Philip Ryken spoke with Christianity Today about the college’s decision.” You can read Christianity Today’s interview of…
Black Pastors Oppose Hijacking of Civil Rights Movement for Same Sex Marriage
Pastors who marched in the civil rights movement have a message for President Obama. Read more from Denny Burk.
Who is being discriminated against?
Christianity Today reports the story of a New Mexico wedding photographer who was successfully sued for refusing on religious grounds to photograph a lesbian wedding. In 2006, Vanessa Willock asked Elane Photography in Albuquerque to photograph her same-sex commitment ceremony.…
What Tocqueville and Jefferson Had in Common and a new book by Gregg Frazer
Alexis de Tocqueville sang the praises of Christianity’s influence in the United States. Yet, he was not an orthodox Christian. As Thomas Kidd has pointed out, in this regard Tocqueville was similar to Jefferson and some of the other founding…
Chuck Colson on Memorial Day
In a brief audio clip, the late Chuck Colson reflects on Memorial Day and mentions his highly recommended book, The Good Life. Click here to listen.
John Piper on the “Suicidal Craze of the Lottery”
John Piper: Tonight a ticket will be chosen worth over half a billion dollars. Lottery agents in New York were selling 1.3 million Mega Millions tickets per hour Thursday. Officials were expecting to sell about 1.2 billion tickets total before…
Chuck Colson on Religious Freedom and Possible Necessity of Civil Disobedience
This is a big deal! Denny Burk’s thoughts here.
Thomas Sowell: The Hunger Hoax
Thomas Sowell: Dan Rather opened a CBS Evening News broadcast in 1991 by declaring, “One in eight American children is going hungry tonight.” Newsweek, the Associated Press, and the Boston Globe repeated this statistic, and many others joined the media…
A Case for Polygamy?
Dr. Mike Wittmer: Many of us have been saying for some time that the normalization of homosexual marriage will inevitably open the door to the state’s acceptance of polygamy. Proponents of gay marriage typically scoff and say we’re silly for…
“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot”
As Americans, along with our American neighbors to the north, celebrate our respective holidays, we would do well to ponder Tocqueville’s opinion that liberty cannot govern a people without faith. Nothing could be more truly patriotic than to be faithfully…