by Steve Deace So much for progressivism’s obsession with “thou shall not judge.” Good. Because it was always a scam anyway. The plan was always to judge, and to judge harshly. But just as the devil needed to go undercover in the Garden of Eden with his own “did God really say?” deception, progressives needed […]
5 Reasons Socialism Is Not Christian
by Julie Roys Please don’t read this if you prefer to remain in a state of delusion about your Christian faith, or about socialism itself. Jesus confronted the money-changers and challenged believers to give to the needy. But, would he support socialism? Increasingly, Americans think he would. In fact, a recent Barna poll found that […]
Fact of Biological Sex Becoming ‘An Unsayable Truth’, says Times Columnist
Children are suffering because of attempts to make simple scientific facts about biological sex and gender “unsayable”, a columnist has said. Janice Turner, writing for The Times, said, “we have forgotten, or conflated, the difference between gender and biological sex”. She criticised recent pressure by activists to change the laws regarding transsexualism. ‘Stitch-up’ Last month, […]
How to Guarantee You’ll Die Alone
Sologamy must be the meanest of modern marriage myths. Alas, Marrying Oneself is Now a Thing … Really by Carolyn Moynihan It sounds like a joke, but it is not entirely. Still recoiling from the insanity of marriage between two people of the same sex, we are told that people — women largely — are […]
People Who Say Climate Change is Worse than Terrorism are Dangerous Liars
by James Delingpole Sorry, conservatives: when President Obama describes climate change as the greatest threat we face, he’s exactly right. Terrorism can’t and won’t destroy our civilization, but global warming could and might. Paul Krugman, Nobel prizewinning economist, public intellectual; New York Times columnist The thing I love about Paul Krugman is that he’s such […]
Bad News for Supporters of Women in Combat
When politics interfere with reality and science. The US Marines tested all-male squads against mixed-gender ones, and the results were pretty bleak. by Svati Kirsten Narula In 2013, the US military lifted its ban on women serving in combat. Shortly after, the Marine Corps began what it calls an “unprecedented research effort” to understand the […]
Christians, Make Bricks Without Straw
by James Kushiner An Orthodox Layman, James Kushiner is the Executive Editor of Touchstone magazine, and Executive Director of The Fellowship of St. James. The Church has dealt with tyrannical dictators, ostracism, persecution, and arm chair quarterbacks for millenia. Mr. Kushiner’s article explains the battleground with clarity. Whether it be Babylon, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Islamic terrorism, the Ottoman Empire, […]
Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country
Rod Dreher is a senior editor and blogger at The American Conservative. Voting Republican and other failed culture war strategies are not going to save us now No, the sky is not falling — not yet, anyway — but with the Supreme Court ruling constitutionalizing same-sex marriage, the ground under our feet has shifted […]
The World Will Soon Follow One Religion?
Looks like Fr. Seraphim Rose was right about the Religion of the Future after all. “Spiritual religion has been the best discovery by the human race to shape an individual’s life, and there will always be a need for it. Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be,” said Swami Satyamayananda, secretary […]
Bow Down
The Choice That Faces Every Believer in America By Laurel Cornell Robinson Picture three young American men, who have moved up through the ranks in this government against certain odds. They are good at what they do, and they are respected. One day, they and all the members of Congress, lobbyists, and members of the […]