My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit.
The more I spoke out against the illiberalism that has swallowed Portland State University, the more retaliation I faced.
I wish I could say that what I am describing hasn’t taken a personal toll. But it has taken exactly the toll it was intended to: an increasingly intolerable working life and without the protection of tenure. This isn’t about me. This is about the kind of institutions we want and the values we choose.... Continue Reading
Natural Law and the Colonial Roots of American Constitutionalism
At its core, this tradition revolved around the proposition that there is a standard of natural justice that exists independently of human contrivance, and that acts as a measure for the legitimacy of civil laws and political institutions.
Natural law thinking profoundly shaped the way American and British leaders approached issues involving rights, sovereignty, and constitutional government. However, the imperial authorities and their colonial opponents often appealed to different, and even conflicting, strains of the natural law tradition. This essay explores the role of natural law philosophy in the imperial crisis between... Continue Reading
The Spirit of Fear
Spirit of Fear is a large part of how the evil powers will attempt to control everyone.
Spirit of Fear is a large part of how the evil powers will attempt to control everyone. It is already started. My brethren. Stay in prayer. Obey the Lord. I am convinced that the Church Age is nearly over, but rough times are ahead for us until our Lord takes us home. Now is the... Continue Reading
I Wasn’t a Minority, Until Today
Since the vaccine passport segregates and erases me from parts of our society, though I’ve never been a visible minority, today—I am an invisible minority.
COVID-19 shouldn’t make us forget what this nation is supposed to stand for. COVID-19 shouldn’t make us forget our history. COVID shouldn’t make us forget our fundamental freedoms. If our freedoms aren’t fundamental in difficult times, then they aren’t fundamental at all. One of my friends sent me a text earlier this week saying:... Continue Reading
Why Almost Nobody Knows Anything about Critical Race Theory
We don’t need to assume anyone is lying or intending to deceive to understand why the political battle over CRT is so enervatingly stupid.
CRT is just a sophisticated legal theory taught only in law schools and graduate schools. Others say that CRT is the simple factual truth about the history of race and politics in the U.S. and conservative opponents are trying to block teaching that in public schools. These two claims cannot both be true. A complexly sophisticated idea taught only in graduate school... Continue Reading
Buckle-up Pro-lifers. They will say anything to silence us.
No matter how much darkness they try to cast over the moral imagination of our culture, we have to shine the light into the darkness.
Pro-abortionists want to distract everyone from the central issue. They want to keep everyone in the dark about what the abortionists are doing in their death chambers. They aren’t merely removing a clump of impersonal cells during an abortion. They are killing living human beings. They want to hide this central truth, but we must... Continue Reading
Why Harvard’s Atheist Chaplain Matters Less, and More, than You Think
Various centers of cultural power that may have previously reinforced many of our values have decidedly become indifferent or openly hostile.
The wide attention recently given to Epstein’s role is an important reminder to American Christians that whatever we may want to argue about the supposedly “good old days,” biblical Christian faith is a lot more marginal in American culture today than we sometimes want to admit. National and even international news has been all in a... Continue Reading
Employee Vaccination Religious Exemption
The Protestant and Presbyterian tradition has valued the liberty of conscience both in society and within the church.
Pastor Brant Bosserman provided members of his congregation with a letter to employers requesting a religious exemption to possible COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Knowing this may be a scenario many Christians face in coming months, Rev. Dr. Bosserman has made his pastoral letter available to others, to serve as a template on how and why such an exemption can be... Continue Reading
“God Made From One Every Nation of Men”: Exploding the Evolutionary Myth of Creation-Based Racism, Pt 1
In this series of articles, we will show that the pseudo-scientific molecules-to-man evolutionary hypothesis has actually been used and continues to be used to justify racism and to destroy faith in the only firm foundation for a culture of universal brotherhood.
As Dr. Sanford demonstrates, taken together, all of this evidence indicates that every man and woman on earth today is a direct descendant of one man—“Y Chromosome Adam”—and one woman—“Mitochondrial Eve”—who were created in a state of genetic perfection, less than ten thousand years ago, just as God revealed in the sacred history of Genesis.... Continue Reading
Christian Schools Vastly Outperforming Public Schools During COVID-19, According to New Survey of Parents
Our taxpayer-funded education establishment cares more about adults than children.
As the country gears up for another possible series of lockdowns in response to the delta variant, it is worthwhile for parents on the fence about Christian education to give it a second look. The data is unmistakable: In a panicked, trying year, Christian school parents and their children fared far better than their public... Continue Reading
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