Peter Heck

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  • Christians Were Right About Sexuality, but This Is No Time for Gloating

    Christians Were Right About Sexuality, but This Is No Time for Gloating

    When you rebel against God, you are rebelling against any firm, logical order for life and morality – including sexual. The consequences are increasingly terrible, but they are predictable.

  • Atheist Group Unintentionally Glorifies God

    Atheist Group Unintentionally Glorifies God

    I've always found it amazing how a man like Barker who has distinguished himself in the atheist community as rather unremarkable except for his claim to be a former Christian minister, doesn't understand Christianity at all.

  • Maybe God Was Right About Sex?

    Maybe God Was Right About Sex?

    Roger Ailes, Anthony Weiner, and the three Bills – Cosby, Clinton and O'Reilly – are old news as the list of powerful men in America who stand accused or guilty of sexually abusing women continues to grow absurdly large, absurdly fast.

  • Transgender Substitute Brags About Confusing Indiana 2nd Graders

    Transgender Substitute Brags About Confusing Indiana 2nd Graders

    Second graders in South Bend Community Schools, one of Indiana's largest public school systems, are getting an education in transgenderism thanks to the district welcoming substitute teacher Meghan Buell into their classrooms.

  • Jim Wallis and Michael Wear: Is Gov't Aid Christian Charity?

    Jim Wallis and Michael Wear: Is Gov't Aid Christian Charity?

    My objection to Wallis was and is that he teaches and many of his followers repeat that support of socialist redistribution policies is synonymous with obedience to the call of Christ to care for the "least of these."

  • Dialogue Means Listening to Pence Too

    Dialogue Means Listening to Pence Too

    It seems the height of intellectual inconsistency to spend weeks defending and applauding players who generate publicity for their cause by engaging in an action that is distracting and offensive to many people, but then turn around and cast reproach upon a Vice President generating publicity for his cause by engaging in an action that you found distracting and offensive.

  • If We\'re Tearing Down Statues, Let\'s Be Consistent

    If We\'re Tearing Down Statues, Let\'s Be Consistent

    It is clear that toppling towers of dead men who once did bad things or thought bad things will be this era\'s thundering contribution to making the world a better place. In which case, the least I\'d like to ask for is some intellectual consistency.

  • Fundamentalist Christianity and Fundamentalist Islam Are Very Different

    Fundamentalist Christianity and Fundamentalist Islam Are Very Different

    A radical Christian is one who sells her property and possessions, flies across the ocean to serve the starving children in Calcutta. Fundamentalist radical Islam is something utterly dissimilar. It is predicated around the idea that Islam must have worldly power.

  • UK's 'Compassionate' Socialized Medicine Wants to Kill Charlie Gard

    UK's 'Compassionate' Socialized Medicine Wants to Kill Charlie Gard

    If you are a parent, it is impossible to come away from this story without feeling the two powerful emotions of sorrow and rage. But it's crucial that all Americans look beyond our visceral reactions and consider the cautionary tale this case offers regarding the direction of American healthcare.

  • Pray for Pence; He May Be President Soon

    Pray for Pence; He May Be President Soon

    The polar opposite of Donald Trump in every discernable way – policy convictions, demeanor, style, graciousness, thoughtfulness – Pence is in the midst of a whirlwind that conservatives (and all Americans) need him to emerge from in-tact.