The Coddling of the American Mind
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.
During the 2014–15 school year, for instance, the deans and department chairs at the 10 University of California system schools were presented by administrators at faculty leader-training sessions with examples of microaggressions. The list of offensive statements included: “America is the land of opportunity” and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job.”... Continue Reading
Christians and ‘Black Lives Matter’
In my opinion the only way for the ‘black lives matter’ movement to gain moral credibility is if Christians and conservatives actively become part of the movement
“I think Christians and conservatives are in a well-placed position to properly subvert and co-opt this movement for the benefit of those who truly need help. The superficial symbolism — combined with the theatrics of anger and a resurgent militancy that currently characterizes the ‘black lives matter’ movement — is a clear reflection — and... Continue Reading
5 Facts About Islamic State’s Theology of Rape
Here are five facts you should about how IS views and justifies the practice of sexual slavery
Acquisition of sex slaves is used as a recruiting tool — As the New York Times article notes, the practice of slavery has become an established recruiting tool to lure men from deeply conservative Muslim societies, where casual sex is taboo and dating is forbidden. Capturing sex slaves has become nearly as important for IS’s... Continue Reading
Court Denies StemExpress Request To Access, Block Aborted Baby Part Videos
The requested injunction would have violated CMP's First Amendment rights.
Judge Joanne O’Donnell argued that the requested injunction, which would have prevented CMP from releasing some of their undercover footage featuring high level StemExpress employees, would violate CMP’s First Amendment rights. The ruling comes two weeks after O’Donnell issued a narrow temporary restraining order preventing CMP from releasing further undercover video footage taken at a... Continue Reading
Colorado Court Rules Against Baker Who Refused to Serve Same-Sex Couples
The Colorado Court of Appeals rejected the argument that religious beliefs were sufficient grounds to deny service to same sex couple.
But a unanimous three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals, in upholding the decision of the state Commission on Human Rights, said that same-sex marriage was so intrinsically related to the plaintiffs’ sexual orientation that a refusal to serve them amounted to illegal discrimination… No reasonable observer, the decision said, “would interpret Masterpiece’s providing... Continue Reading
Legal Violations Abound in 6th Undercover Planned Parenthood Video
Technicians working at Planned Parenthood took fetal body parts even though mothers had refused consent, and asked for consent before mothers had decided to have an abortion.
There is already plenty of evidence in previous videos that Planned Parenthood is violating Section 112 of The National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993, which imposes criminal penalties on the originating organization for selling fetal body parts for profit. How many more laws must be broken before Planned Parenthood before federal prosecutors act?... Continue Reading
The Suicide of the Liberal Arts
Indoctrinating students isn’t the same as teaching them. The job of teachers is to liberate minds, not capture them.
Liberal arts has not been killed by parental or student philistinism, or the cupidity of today’s educational institutions whose excessive costs have made the liberal arts into an unattainable luxury. In too many ways the liberal arts have died not by murder but by suicide. I was a few minutes early for class. Father... Continue Reading
Planned Parenthood’s Lame Defenses
After days of reeling from the most macabre revelations on video, Planned Parenthood’s defenders are launching their counterattacks
Planned Parenthood systematically and brutally kills children by the hundreds of thousands. The Center for Medical Progress videos show that it does so with a casual indifference to the undeniable humanity of each baby. Unless Planned Parenthood willfully gives up its abortion business, defunding the group will not only save lives, it will help rid... Continue Reading
How ISIS Is (Really) Shaping My Theology
ISIS has caused me to love my brothers and sisters in Christ more than ever before
“I still remember the first time I viewed one of ISIS’s twisted pieces of video propaganda. I could not watch it until the end, the grisly scene was too much for my soft, suburban conscience. I had never seen anything like it in my life. Leaving my pastor’s study in our church, I went to... Continue Reading
Planting Churches in Japan: An Interview with Dan Iverson
The fruit was slow; it was four years before we saw the first believer. But what a joy!
“In America, a twenty-year-old living at home might tell her mom, “I’m going to church,” when she’s really going shopping. But in Japan, she might say, “I’m going shopping,” when she’s really going to church. People aren’t killed for becoming Christian, but there is often opposition.” Tabletalk: How were you called to plant churches... Continue Reading
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