Memo to Military: Lowering Standards is Not Equality
By Chad Groening | A national defense analyst says there’s no need to place women into direct combat units just to bow to political correctness. “Men and women aren’t the same. They are different,” says Bob Maginnis, a senior fellow for national security at the Family Research Council. The Obama…
Updated FTU Course: Is Wisdom Attainable?
The wisdom tradition recognizes wise and unwise choices, and claims that knowing the difference is important. Do you prize wisdom? Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college…
From Sticks and Stones to Microaggression?
By Eric Metaxas | Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: I just flew in from London and, boy, are my arms tired. Of course, you couldn’t stop me, so I told a bad joke. But it seems I may have done more than offend against humor—I may have committed a “microaggression.” If you’ve never heard the term…
Environmentalism as the New American Religion
By Michael Crichton | Environmentalism is a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths. Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it’s a…
What if 150,000 People a Year Were Euthanized in the U.S., Some Without Their Consent?
By Wesley J. Smith | Belgium has surpassed the Netherlands as the hastened death capital of the world. A study out of Flanders, published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 18% of patients deaths come either from lethal injection/assisted suicide or from being put into a deep coma and left to…
Are We Seeing the Eclipse of Religious Liberty in America?
By Rod Dreher | A week ago today, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a minor-league religious liberty law, one very close to the federal RFRA model, offering what, should it ever be appealed to in gay rights cases, would offer a small modicum of protection (the right to a hearing) to religious conservatives. And then…
FTU Course: Is Atheism Tenable?
Does it make sense to believe that there is no God? Can the atheist worldview stand up to scrutiny? Richard Dawkins, William Lane Craig and Ravi Zacharias debate atheism’s viability. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them…
My Turn: Standing Up and Fighting the War on Christianity in America
By Jean Warrick | In this country, where our Constitution calls for freedom of speech and freedom of religion, we have not experienced in our 238 years as a nation being persecuted as Christians or having religious speech silenced — until now. For 2,000 years, Christians and Jews all over the world, however, have…
How Exactly is Reductionist Thinking Killing Us?
By Chase Padusniak | I think most of us would agree that discussions are fruitful when you treat your intellectual opponents charitably. Labeling a fan of Henri du Lubac “Modernist” probably doesn’t support theological debate—neither will calling anyone who venerates Murray Rothbard a “socialist” win…