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  • 'Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas' is tapping into something

    'Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas' is tapping into something

    The sappiness of “Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas” triggers a Pavlovian snark response for many of us. None of these movies are, shall we say, “critically acclaimed.” Still, what these movies lack in Emmy Awards, they make up for in something that those creating and distributing edgier flicks would kill for: millions and millions of viewers.

  • Are Chick-fil-A's new giving priorities a win for LGBT bullies?

    Are Chick-fil-A's new giving priorities a win for LGBT bullies?

    Although the announcement didn’t mention which groups would no longer be funded, most media outlets covering the Chick-fil-A Foundation’s press release on Monday did.

  • DACA and the Supreme Court: There's no such thing as a 'political issue'

    DACA and the Supreme Court: There's no such thing as a 'political issue'

    In recent years, both political parties have shifted talking points on immigration and now effectively hold positions dictated by their most extreme members. Any hope for a legislative solution seems impossible.

  • Exposing China's cultural genocide

    Exposing China's cultural genocide

    Christians must do whatever we can to make people look with painful clarity at the persecution of religious minorities in China. We must care, and we must call our leaders to care.

  • Abortion rates down but the mission remains

    Abortion rates down but the mission remains

    A recent report from the Guttmacher Institute contained very good news: In 2017, the abortion rate fell to its lowest point since Roe v. Wade was decided. The report also contained some not-so-good news: The pro-life gains Christians often talk about are probably “exaggerated.”

  • From Chuck Colson to Kanye West: What to make of celebrity conversions?

    From Chuck Colson to Kanye West: What to make of celebrity conversions?

    Celebrity conversions aren’t easy to navigate. In fact, the ongoing reaction to reports that Kanye West has been born again, is serious about his faith, and is even considering seminary, all in association with the title and content of his much-anticipated music project “Jesus is King,” sounded more than vaguely familiar to those of us at the Colson Center.

  • Gender dysphoria: The invisible victims of political correctness

    Gender dysphoria: The invisible victims of political correctness

    Young people in emotional pain and distress are asking adults for help. But, because of our ideological blind spots, we give them serpents and scorpions instead of what they really need.

  • Making 'ecocide' a crime

    Making 'ecocide' a crime

    With the modern environmental movement, which emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, came a new term: ecocide. It means the deliberate destruction of the natural environment.

  • When 'choice' and 'disability' collide: Eugenics still advancing

    When 'choice' and 'disability' collide: Eugenics still advancing

    Forced sterilization and other eugenics practices may seems like a throwback to a much darker period in recent human history, but in many countries, the laws that authorize these reprehensible violations of our humanity are still on the books.

  • 'Belief in Genesis ... incompatible with human dignity,' British tribunal claims

    'Belief in Genesis ... incompatible with human dignity,' British tribunal claims

    We take ideas such as freedom and human dignity for granted, without ever stopping to think about where those ideas came from in the first place.