Over the weekend, my friend Jonathan Merritt posted the following to Twitter: THREAD: This quote from one of my favorite theologians explains why I don’t engage with a lot of. . .
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A week or so ago, I announced on twitter that I would be overseeing a course in conjunction with the ERLC’s National Conference titled “Christian Ethics and the Family.” . . .
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The spirit of the age conflates patterns of sexual desire with personal identity. Thus, if you’re attracted to the opposite sex, you’re heterosexual; to the same sex, homosexual; and to. . .
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A news report out of Minnesota indicates that the University of Minnesota is on the verge of getting into the language policing business. According to the report: The U is
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The Supreme Court’s reign of social progressivism is hopefully coming to an end. Anyone in defense of the Permanent Things—life, marriage, religious liberty—should greet the news of the nomination of. . .
Read MoreElizabeth Bruenig at the Washington Post has a column this morning saying that conservatives who note hypocrisy when, for example, a socialist like Bernie Sanders buys an additional home, should be. . .
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Over the course of my dissertation, I did a fair amount of reading in Augustine. In his famous work, The City of God Against the Pagans (Book 19, Chapter 17), Augustine reflects. . .
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One of my favorite writers, Mary Eberstadt, has a must-read essay in the latest issue of The Weekly Standard that you should not miss. Titled “Second Thoughts about the Sexual. . .
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Of late, I have been thinking a lot about what constitutes a definition of man and woman. It’s important that I emphasize that in this definition, I am not intending. . .
Read MoreI’m heading to the Southern Baptist Convention early this year. On Thursday of this week, I’ll be joining the Resolutions Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention to serve as the. . .
Read MoreI’m in the thick of writing my dissertation. If all goes to plan, I should be done sometime in November or December. Chapter one is complete (that was my prospectus). . .
Read MoreI rarely, if ever, agree with the conclusions that ethicist David Gushee reaches. I intend no personal harm in saying that. I don’t know him well; though I’ve had polite. . .
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