Another day, another flag story. Recently, a pastor in North Carolina raised a Christian flag high upon a pole outside of his church. Under that, the Stars and Stripes. The pastor is making a plea for religious freedom and is encouraging people to recognize of the primacy of obedience to God over . . . . Continue Reading »
Seahawks QB Russell Wilson Talks God, All the Media Hears Is “No Sex”
Kate O'Hare, Patheos
Rust-belt Revivalists Can't Save the GOP
Michael Gerson, Washington Post
The Socialist Surge
Ben Shreckinger and Jonathan Topaz, Politico
Burying Christians Under ISIS Guns
Mat Wolf, Daily Beast
No One Asks to be Buried with His iPad
Tim Wu, The New Yorker
From the Trenches to the Shire
Matthew H. Young, University Bookman
How did Lewis and Tolkien Defend the Old West?
Bradley J. Birzer, The Imaginative Conservative
Acropolis Now
David Stewart, America
How does someone go from giving a TED talk on civil debating to saying, “Will anti-gay Christians be politically and socially ostracized? I sure hope so.”? A lesson in (un)civil discourse.
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Thomas Reese, writing about gay marriage in the National Catholic Reporter, argues that the Catholic bishops of the United States should “admit defeat and move on.” They’ve done this before, he claims: Think of “their predecessors who opposed legalizing divorce but lost,” and who then . . . . Continue Reading »
The Next Front in the Battle over Gay Rights
Lydia Wheeler, The Hill
Ontario Law Society’s Decision to Refuse Trinity Western Accreditation Upheld
Simona Chiose, Globe and Mail
Uber’s Going to War With New York City. Again.
Alison Griswold, Slate
The Witness of Literature: A Genealogical Sketch
Alan Jacobs, The Hedgehog Review
A New Word on the Internet
Betsy Morais, The New Yorker
Millennial Republicans See Risk for Party in Gay Marriage Response
Kevin Cirilli, The Hill
Hollywood, George Soros Giving Big to Clinton Super PAC
Julie Bykowicz, Associated Press
Fr. Barron on SCOTUS and Same-sex Marriage
Robert Barron, Word on Fire
Austen Ivereigh reports that when Jorge Mario Bergoglio was at the helm of the Colegio Máximo—a Jesuit seminary in the San Miguel region of Buenos Aires—he piloted with “a charismatic personalist style of leadership, the kind Latins (and especially Argentines) respond naturally to, yet which Anglo-Saxons can regard as suffocating or demagogic.” Continue Reading »
This weekend, Americans across the nation will celebrate the 239th anniversary of our separation from the British Empire. Many of us will enjoy our long weekend in stereotypically American fashion—grilling meat, drinking beer, and filling the sky with explosions. I love my country, nearly to . . . . Continue Reading »
During the past few days a number of commentators have discussed the numerous parallels between the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Obergefell v. Hodges and the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. In neither case was the majority opinion grounded in the U.S. Constitution. Additionally, social . . . . Continue Reading »
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