Stuck Between Two Sexes: The Trans Teen Revolution
Rushing to medicalize kids and trap them into a cross-sex lifestyle, there's been an explosion of prescriptions puberty blockers given to children without any thought to the permanent consequences.
And what if there are underlying mental health issues that no one knows about? When you attack the brain with these cross-sex hormones for a child struggling with conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, even high-functioning autism, which is sometimes the case for these girls, “one can only wonder,” Sarah pointed out, “what that kind of... Continue Reading
Gorsuch Helps Transform the Supreme Court Into the Supreme Legislature on LGBT Rights
The Supreme Court has rewritten Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the definition of “sex.”
The majority opinion by Gorsuch upending more than five decades of prior precedents was only 33 pages long. Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, filed a blistering dissent in which he said that “there is only one word for what the Court has done today: legislation.” He pointed out that the majority’s claim that it... Continue Reading
Learning the Deeper Lessons
The past fifteen years have witnessed a gradual human retreat into self-made worlds of our own ordering.
In this post I want to think through some of the identity-shattering issues which Covid-19 brings to us as Christians, and suggest some deep seated lessons which we can presently learn that might better prepare us to face our world now, and enjoy heaven later. These are undoubtedly the strangest of days. We are... Continue Reading
Race and Redemption
Slavery and Jim Crow were evil and systemic. Racism is sinful. But the solution is not to replace the church’s theology of forgiveness with a secular atonement narrative.
As Green and others have noted, the new anti-racism has become a new religion with its own original sin (white racism), baptismal liturgy (confession of whiteness), and new birth (to wokeness). But there is no redemption, and its ethic encourages people to practice what Jesus condemned, “Do not judge, lest you too be judged” (Matt.... Continue Reading
It’s Hard to Pillage While Pushing a Wheelchair
The incessant need to rage withers under the strain of caring for a disabled family member.
Some of America’s 65 million caregivers could probably work in a peaceful protest. The caregiver and loved one can simultaneously get some fresh air, participate in a good cause, and get some exercise. Burning down the system, however, simply takes too much energy. It’s all about the math — the number of hours one logs in the... Continue Reading
Some Thoughts on Racism
There is still racism out there. It doesn’t do us any good to deny it.
While we should be cautious in jumping to conclusions on any particular case, there is still racial hatred out there. And this racial hatred is not all unidirectional. There is plenty of racial hatred of whites by blacks, too. Many people would seek to justify this part of the equation by saying that it is... Continue Reading
Protest and Anarchy in Black and Blue
We who follow Christ must assure that “long-game discipleship” is our prime directive; a discipleship into deep and practical biblical affecting every area of life — personal, cultural and social.
In an earlier blog I emphasized the importance of moral clarity for an effective protest. The case of George Floyd dripped with moral clarity — so much so that 78% of the country agreed that Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on Mr. Floyd’s neck till he died, should have been arrested immediately. However, such a national... Continue Reading
Losing Freedoms and Finding Renewal
The promises of freedom have turned into a burden of social expectations.
What was at first the promise of sexual liberation has turned into the burden that my happiness and well-being is dependent upon the sexual achievements of cultural expectations. If I haven’t had a certain amount of partners or certain kinds of experiences, I’m not keeping up. This is true in a myriad of areas. We have the... Continue Reading
Under The Rainbow Banner
In the largest American cities, over a million spectators line the streets to wish and be wished “Happy Pride.”
The 2020 coronavirus lockdowns have dramatically interrupted public life throughout the United States. Easter and Passover celebrations were shunted online or cancelled outright. So, too, the central public liturgy of the contemporary cosmopolis, the Pride parade. For our leading cities and their elites, this is of far greater consequence than suppressing any traditional holy day.... Continue Reading
Stop Believing in Science
Science is not a religion. It doesn’t offer virtue or certainty.
Quantum indeterminacy has left us with a universe in which the drive to know is constrained by our search for knowledge. Existence seems to be built to challenge our hubris, forcing us to think about our flaws, limiting us to dimensions and points in time, and asking us to accept what we cannot know. ... Continue Reading
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