Derrick G. Jeter

CP Op-Ed Contributor

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Jan 22, 2015
Some Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo, Satire, and Nihilism
"It is the test of good religion," G. K. Chesterton wrote, "whether you can joke about it." If the reactions of religion's proponents is any judge, Judaism and Christianity fair pretty well. Islam—at least a large segment of Islam—doesn't think its very funny.
Oct 31, 2014
Book Review: Os Guinness's Ambitious Plan for a Global Public Square
Os Guinness put it well in The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity: "How do we live with our deepest differences, especially when those differences are religious and ideological, and especially when those differences concern matters of our common public life?"
Sep 10, 2014
A 9-1-1 for 9/11
On a beautiful New England morning I was driving from Boston to Rhode Island to visit a client. The morning air was crisp and fresh. The sun had just enough warmth to keep the chill at bay. The sky was a stunning hue of blue. It was one of those days that made you wish you worked outside. That is how the morning of September 11, 2001, began. It ended in ugliness and rubble - and 3,000 of our fellow citizens dead.
Aug 5, 2014
Book Review: A How-to Guide for Exploring the Meaning of Life
In The Person Called You: Why You're Here, Why You Matter & What You Should Do with Your Life, Hendricks tackles, with vim and vigor, the thorny philosophical underpinnings of purpose.
Jun 23, 2014
To Love Liberty Is to Love History
The history of America is the history of liberty. As a course of events, American history is progresstoward liberty. As a record of those events, American history is progress toward understanding liberty.
Jun 5, 2014
Seventy Years On: Franklin D. Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer
Franklin D. Roosevelt perfected the art of speaking directly to the American people. Unlike presidents before him, the invention and availability of the radio allowed Americans from New York to California to hear his voice—all at the same time. The radio transformed America in the 1930s and '40s, and transformed presidential politics.
May 1, 2014
Mark Levin, Sarah Palin, and Baptism by Waterboarding
Sarah Palin has a faithful attack dog in Mark Levin. Good for her. We all need friends and allies.
Feb 14, 2014
Obamacare: Tyranny Unmasked
Settled law. That's what we were told Obamacare was. But there's nothing settled about it, which is what makes it so unsettling—from the Supreme Court's ruling that the government can compel citizens to engage in commerce (thereby delegitimizing the people's liberty), to the amateurish rollout of the health care website, to Congress excusing themselves from the law, to the (thus far) twenty-nine changes, exemptions, and cut outs President Obama has implemented without congressional approval.
Jan 10, 2014
The First Amendment be Damned: Evolution and the Threat to Religious Liberty
It matters not that biologists have never observed or duplicated mutations, even in the simplest organism, to produce a whole new species. It matters not that paleontologists have never discovered transitional or mutated species in the fossil record. In today's world, Darwinian evolution is the faith that trumps all others.
Dec 13, 2013
Keeping Christ in Christmas Is What's Important In December, Not Politics
The stage for the first Christmas was set by a politician—Caesar Augustus. The backdrop was a political policy: a census of the Roman Empire—"of all the inhabited earth," in the words of Luke 2:1. Everyone knows the story.