by jstewardfree | Jun 25, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Janie B. Cheaney | A few years ago we were told that the defining civil rights issue of our time would be same-sex marriage. But that was then. Welcome the new defining civil rights issue, officially announced in a cover story (subscription required)...
by jstewardfree | Jun 16, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Josh Shepherd | In new research polling released this week, Barna Group finds that more than eight in 10 Americans (84 percent) are unaware global poverty has been reduced drastically in recent decades. The nationwide sample reveals that a majority of Americans (67...
by jstewardfree | Jun 9, 2014 | Grey Matter
By John Stonestreet | In a surprise to many, the Supreme Court has ruled you can not only open a town meeting in prayer, you can even mention Jesus. Since 1999, the town board of Greece, New York, has opened its monthly meeting with a prayer given by a local member of...
by jstewardfree | May 14, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Michael Ward | The potential tyranny of big government is not the only constitutional danger facing Western democracies. In Norman Maclean’s fly fishing novella, A River Runs Through It, Maclean suggests (echoing some Native American traditions) that fishing...
by jstewardfree | May 12, 2014 | Grey Matter
By D.C. Innes | I own books. Many books. They are the tools of my academic trade. But they are also the highways of my political and even spiritual liberty. Access to my books is like my access to air. Seizing my books would be worse than placing me under house...