“Considered in isolation, trigger warnings may seem straightforwardly good. Basic human decency means professors like myself should be aware of students’ traumatic experiences, and give them a heads up about course content—photographs of dead bodies, extended accounts of abuse, disordered eating, self-harm—that might trigger an anxiety attack and foreclose intellectual engagement.”   Last week, the... Continue Reading

I encourage individuals to save for their rainy day, because troubles do always come. I encourage our local, state, and federal leaders to do the same. We, as baby boomers, have failed to invest in the coming generations. Instead of strengthening our infrastructure, we have mortgaged our future. This is not progress, and it is... Continue Reading

His [Obama] administration first went after public schools, ordering them to allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms based on gender identity, rather than biology. Now, policy changes adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) put those who care for... Continue Reading

“Several African national churches, known as provinces, have stated that they will not accept financial support from the Episcopal Church, most recently citing decisions by its bishops and General Convention to redefine core doctrine on Christian marriage.”   A top official in the worldwide Anglican Communion made news last week warning a gathering of African... Continue Reading

“I think their absence is going to be felt for a long, long time,” said Lisa Dew, the manager of the nuns’ clinic. “There are a lot of people here who depended on them for their care, their medicines. It’s going to be rough.”   UPDATE (8/27/16, 9:20 a.m.): Mississippi authorities have arrested and charged... Continue Reading

“That answer is not good enough for Weinstein and the MRFF, who allege that the officer who conducted the investigation – Col. Lisa Johnson – is the officer who authorized Maj. Lewis to have the Bible on his desk in the first place. The military has not addressed Weinstein’s allegation about Col. Johnson’s leadership of... Continue Reading

“Millennials want to see the gospel at work. They long to see Christians vibrantly, authentically, and sacrificially living out their faith in service to others. But this good trait is potentially dangerous. Many well-intentioned young people flee theologically faithful churches.”   The generation we call “millennials” (individuals born between 1980 and 2000) has been the subject of countless Christian articles and... Continue Reading

But as Krauthammer also noted, Bush wasn’t vindicated simply for pushing for scientific alternatives, but for his willingness to take a moral stand. “What Bush got right was to insist, in the face of enormous popular and scientific opposition, on drawing a line at all, on requiring that scientific imperative be balanced by moral considerations,”... Continue Reading

Mayer and McHugh found no compelling evidence that sexual orientation was innate. Studies found some minor differences between the brain structure and functioning of heterosexual and homosexual people, but the findings shed no light on whether those differences were inborn or the result of environment and psychological factors. In other words, there was no scientific... Continue Reading

Whether the claim proves true, evidence shows ISIS exploits boys and girls as bombers, combatants, and sex slaves. ISIS reportedly keeps an army of child soldiers, indoctrinating them at ISIS-run schools and exposing them to grisly bloodshed. The group routinely releases video footage of these so-called “cubs of the caliphate” shooting and beheading victims. When... Continue Reading