Is Islam Really Violent?
I first heard of the Manchester bombing on Facebook. Before the identity of the bomber was released, the comment sections […]
Culture
What’s Behind the Uber Ban?
Industries that are overly controlled by government authorities do not have the mechanisms for allowing people to make these choices. When markets are allowed to work, options abound
Reaping Calamity: Venezuela and Socialism
Venezuela is continuing its slide into disorder and mayhem. Protests against President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government have continued for almost eight
Is Our Galaxy Worth Guarding? (A Sort-Of-Not-Really Movie Review)
It is true that nobody makes a new earth without first making a new heaven. – G. K. Chesterton (Ffinch 1986, 278) I
What the French Election Means for Europe
Who is Emmanuel Macron? Three years ago, most French citizens would not be able to tell you. Macron’s rise has
Confederate Monuments and the Plank in our Eyes
Last week city workers removed a statue of Jefferson Davis from a prominent city thoroughfare in New Orleans. This action
Why We Live in a Theocracy Now
Recently, my alma mater New Saint Andrew’s college announced that it would be purchasing a property in downtown Moscow, ID.
Amazon and the Church of Secularism
As Millennials reject organized religion and leave the church to never return, many bluster about the implications of such trends. Some secularists take
Defense Spending: What’s another $54 billion between friends?
For a thought experiment, next time you are reading Psalm 20, when you read “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God,” do a little mental modernization and change the words to “Some trust in Strike Eagles and others trust in Warthogs.”
Does the Church Fail the Uneducated?
The church in America has in part given way to a social club that maintains the apparatus of Christianity while providing different social classes, from the lower middle class on up, respectability and community. This respectability and community sometimes comes at the cost of exclusion of the poor and less-educated.
BGEA hosts World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians
This week in Washington, D.C. the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is hosting its World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians.
When the People Cheer – Strip-Clubs and Black Thought’s Poetic Insight
On The Roots newest album ‘. . . and then you shoot your cousin,” one of the most powerful tracks is ‘When the People Cheer.’ Each stanza is written from a different perspective. The third stanza, Black Thought’s stanza, is written from the perspective of a sex addict that has reached both a financial and existential low because he is enslaved to sexual pleasures. He knows that what he is doing is wrong, but he can no longer resist the strip clubs. He turns in to an after-hours joint to blow his last dollar on a lap dance.
The Worth of Guilt: Questions from Taurus Carroll and Bernard Nathanson
What is required for someone to be guilty? This has been brought to the forefront of our minds by the
On Saving the World
The other day I stumbled across a new series on Netflix: Bill Nye Saves the World. Now I, like millions
Cutting the Legs Out from Under Religious Liberty
Recent attacks on Christian florists, bakers, and pizza-pie makers opened the Church’s eyes to the threat against our religious liberties.
Culture, Magazine, Politics
Populism’s Takeover of the West
“I’m against the Right of money, and the Left of money. I’m the candidate of the people!” Sound familiar? You
Packaging the Tribe: Selling More than Music
Netflix’ new documentary Hip Hop Evolution is a history of the development and rise of Hip Hop and Rap. In one of the interviews, Ice T, a primeval purveyor of Gangster Rap, talks about his early rhymes: “I was just writing about my reality.” He was trying to capture “the laid back vibe of reality.” The people in the neighborhood listened because they recognized their life in his words. According to Ice Cube, another early Gangster Rapper, Ice T wrote rhymes that “were our version of what a day in the life of Los Angeles was like.” They were not trying to create a new genre. They wanted to fetter their daily insanity with verse.
Liberty to Mutilate?
Earlier this month United States attorneys charged a Detroit doctor with female genital mutilation (FGM), the first prosecution of this
Why I Celebrated International Women’s Day on April 16th
This year’s celebration of International Woman’s Day was innovative. On the eighth of last month, women around the world pulled