Joseph Knippenberg

Reacting to a typically oversimplified and alarmist piece by Michelle Goldberg (who has been worrying about this for years ), my friend Jordan J. Ballor has an excellent post on the connections between the Paul camp and the fringe Reconstructionist (or theonomist) camp. Here’s the crux of his . . . . Continue Reading »

This  is just a straw in the wind, but it’s nonetheless very disturbing.  Will adherents of traditional morality, who seek only to protect their view of marriage (and not in any other way legally to stigmatize homosexuality) be relegated to the margins of society, treated the way . . . . Continue Reading »

This article suggests that Mitt Romney may have found a way—what took him so long?—to reach some religious folks who are suspicious of Mormonism on theological grounds.  Consider this passage: On Sunday afternoon, potential voters in Atlantic waited for Romney at the Family Table . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a useful, if flawed, tour d’horizon of the top ten potential religion and politics flashpoints in the upcoming year.  I’ll note my quibbles and quarrels in each instance. 10. Occupy Wall Street and the Religious Left: Missed Opportunity? One might surmise that OWS could . . . . Continue Reading »

On this the penultimate day of the year, with just a few (too few, in my view) days to go until the Iowa caucuses (in which Ron Paul is a—not the—front-runner ), it’s worth spending a few moments thinking about the connection between libertartianism and Christianity. If Ayn Rand is . . . . Continue Reading »

For my good friends at the Georgia Family Council , I wrote a post on a recent decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Jennifer Keeton’s suit against faculty and administrators in the graduate counseling program at Augusta State University.  I won’t repeat what I said . . . . Continue Reading »

Either these people have no money or they’ve already finished their Christmas shopping.  (I won’t say which category applies to me.) Yesterday, the Cardinal Newman Society’s Patrick J. Reilly published an op-ed in the Washington Times criticizing an effort by the University . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael Gerson offers a very moving article about the noble atheist.  There are many nuggets, but I’ll only quote the concluding paragraph: At the Pew Forum, Hitchens was asked a mischievous question: What positive lesson have you learned from Christianity? He replied, with great . . . . Continue Reading »

This article points out that the First Amendment religion clauses offers little protection to student religious groups on private college campuses, which isn’t saying much, considering how little they seem to offer to those groups in public universities . What’s more, . . . . Continue Reading »

No, silly, not world peace!  Books! Here are the recommendations from our friends at the Claremont Institute . In no particular order, my own suggestions (some of which overlap those of the folks at Claremont): Family Politics , by Scott Yenor For those who want to know how we got to where we . . . . Continue Reading »