Johns Hopkins is shifting course and offering hormone therapy and sex-reassignment surgery to patients after two months of backlash aimed at the school for a report authored by two faculty members. In August, Paul McHugh, professor of psychiatry and outspoken opponent of sex-reassignment surgery, and Lawrence Mayer published a review of 200 studies on sexual... Continue Reading

Some students and faculty on Esolen’s campus were so outraged by his suggestion that “diversity” as they understand it is misguided and destructive that they have commenced a campaign to punish him, perhaps even to fire him. Now, Esolen is having to answer the very question he recently posed to his readers in the second... Continue Reading

An Iowa church is dropping its lawsuit against the state and the city of Des Moines after a federal judge issued a ruling protecting the church’s religious liberty. The District Court judge ruled Oct. 14 that churches do not count as “public accommodations” under the Iowa Civil Rights Act and are not subject to censorship... Continue Reading

The primary goal of government, we said, was to seek peace by doing justice. Several times I’ve mentioned 1 Kings 3:28, which gives us the political philosophy of the Bible in a nutshell: “Israel stood in awe of the king [Solomon], because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.”... Continue Reading

If this were 1999—the year that I was converted and walked away from the woman and lesbian community I loved—instead of 2016, Jen Hatmaker’s words about the holiness of LGBT relationships would have flooded into my world like a balm of Gilead. How amazing it would have been to have someone as radiant, knowledgeable, humble,... Continue Reading

The claim that there are no differences in outcomes for children living in same-sex households arises from how scholars collect, analyze, and present data to support a politically expedient conclusion, not from what the data tend to reveal at face value. Nearly five years ago, I began to question the scholarly consensus that there were... Continue Reading

“A society that does not admit of and accommodate differences cannot be a free and democratic society — one in which its citizens are free to think, to disagree, to debate and to challenge the accepted view without fear of reprisal,” says the 66-page judgment. “This case demonstrates that a well-intentioned majority acting in the name... Continue Reading

“Playing God is the greatest temptation that human beings face. In Genesis 3, the first sin involves wanting to be like God. So it’s not surprising that governments, made of human beings, face the same temptation.”   In the first half of this course, we thought about what government could ask of Christians. In the... Continue Reading

The thousands of pictures show, more than anything else, how similar the human experience is across the globe. Looking at the toys from around the world, there are plenty of recognizable types and brands even in countries we might be tempted to believe have nothing in common with the United States. Scrolling through, there are... Continue Reading

As the pastor continued to describe the truth of Jesus Christ, I felt as though the verses he shared were written specifically for me. Looking across the aisle, I saw my client. He smiled, nodded, and gently patted his Bible as if to say, “Now do you understand?”   Like most people, I was born... Continue Reading