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  • What is our Christian identity in this anonymous age?

    What is our Christian identity in this anonymous age?

    The deepest conflicts in this moment aren’t moral ones. It’s not a disagreement about what’s right and what’s wrong, even though certainly our views on that as a culture have dramatically changed. The deeper confusion is about who we actually are. 

  • The pandemic of despair

    The pandemic of despair

    Who else can address this culture-wide pandemic of despair but the Church? Who else, if not us fellow beggars who have found the Bread of Life. In a society literally dying of despair, to “always be ready to give an answer for the hope that you have to anyone who asks,” is not a mere suggestion. It’s a calling. It’s a matter of life or death.

  • How the image of God offers freedom

    How the image of God offers freedom

    The most significant challenges we face in our culture are not fundamentally moral ones. We do face moral challenges but the ones we face are the fruit of the problems, not the root. It’s the effect, not the cause. At the root of the issues of our culture has been a dramatic shift in how we think about the nature and value of the human person.

  • A narrow SCOTUS ruling with serious implications for religious liberty

    A narrow SCOTUS ruling with serious implications for religious liberty

    Rather than compromise Church teaching, CSS challenged the city’s action in court. They lost at the Third Circuit, but in a 9-0 decision, CSS and religious freedom won the day at the Supreme Court.

  • Confused souls find rest in God’s image

    Confused souls find rest in God’s image

    The new sexual orthodoxy encourages hurting young people to change what shouldn’t be changed and discourages them from working on the things that they can work on.

  • Evangelicals and casual sex

    Evangelicals and casual sex

    Churches have failed to teach young people a true, Christian understanding of sex and the human body.

  • Does Trevor Lawrence have too much character to be the NFL’s No. 1 pick?

    Does Trevor Lawrence have too much character to be the NFL’s No. 1 pick?

    The only doubts that exist about Trevor Lawrence’s potential in the NFL have nothing to do with talent or poise, but concern his character.

  • Will medical professionals be forced to perform transgender surgeries?

    Will medical professionals be forced to perform transgender surgeries?

    On April 19, the Biden administration filed an appeal in a case that could force “religious doctors and hospitals to perform potentially harmful gender-transition procedures against their conscience and professional medical judgment.”

  • Planned Parenthood’s reckoning with Margaret Sanger’s racism doesn’t go far enough

    Planned Parenthood’s reckoning with Margaret Sanger’s racism doesn’t go far enough

    In the wake of the “racial reckoning” of the past year, denying what the historical record plainly reveals about Margaret Sanger is no longer tenable.

  • What’s behind declining sperm counts and fertility?

    What’s behind declining sperm counts and fertility?

    Male sperm counts around the world are in decline and, by one estimate, a real “Year Omega” could arrive in 2045.