A Note on the Kentucky Decision
by Mark BauerleinThe real issue at stake in Kentucky's religious liberty kerfuffle is not discrimination, but belief—a belief that will not bow to sexual progressivism. Continue Reading »
Experiments in Matrimony
by Amy L. WaxJust Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriageby stephen macedoprinceton, 320 pages, $29.95 Before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the law of most states restricted marriage to opposite-sex couples. Now that the Court has held that the Constitution . . . . Continue Reading »
Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Cheap Shots
by Wesley HillBy firing cheap shots and caricaturing the traditional views he hopes to overturn, Wolterstorff hampers a debate whose depth and maturity could be further deepened. Continue Reading »
Hey, Joe!
by Carl R. TruemanAll American Christians need the Roman Catholic bishops to take a strong, public stand against politicians like Joe Biden who openly mock the teaching of the Church to which they claim to belong. Continue Reading »
Dignity v. Freedom
by Peter J. LeithartJustice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples “ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.” “Dignity” appears several other times in the opinion. Prior to the twentieth century, Kennedy . . . . Continue Reading »
Naught for our Comfort
by Carl R. TruemanNew statistics from Pew are most discouraging, and most predictable. Continue Reading »
Unheard Voices
by Helen AlvaréJephthah’s Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War for Family ‘Equality’ edited by robert oscar lópez and rivka edelman createspace, 484 pages, $19.99 I magine that an interrogator has imprisoned someone and binds his mouth shut with electrical tape. For hours the interrogator harangues . . . . Continue Reading »
The Wreckage of Obergefell
by Michael Stokes PaulsenEvery generation, it seems, has its paradigm-defining Supreme Court case: a decision (or series of decisions) that determines the jurisprudential ethos and frames the judicial, political, and academic debate for the next quarter century or so. A landmark case of this sort also marks an ending, . . . . Continue Reading »
Union University, the CCCU, and Distinctly Christian Higher Education
by C. Ben MitchellCarl Trueman, our friend and brother at Westminster Theological Seminary, has critiqued Union’s departure from the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) on the grounds that our relationship with the CCCU has been “really pragmatic and only very superficially theological.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Liberty Adrift
by Fr. Dominic Bouck
How America's Original Sin Still Haunts Us in the Fourteenth Amendment
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