This article has been adapted from “Priority Reading for 2022: Jon Harris’s Christianity and Social Justice: Religions in Conflict,” a Word Foundations article that is available here. In his excellent book titled Christianity and Social Justice: Religions in Conflict, podcaster and author Jon Harris includes an extremely helpful appendix titled “Woke Evangelical Tactics,” In it, Jon explores several important slight-of-hand maneuvers […]
It is insane “that while Twitter knowingly permits graphic pornography and death threats on the[ir] platform (I have reported countless violent threats, the vast majority of which have gone unaddressed), they won’t allow me to state very basic facts, such as ‘men aren’t women.’” —feminist Meghan Murphy in November of 2018— Key point: Facts do not […]
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. —Benjamin Franklin— Key point: If America doesn’t rein in Big Tech, it will cease to be America. On Thursday evening, November 26, President Donald Trump tweeted the following: “For purposes of National Security, Section 230 must be immediately terminated!!!” For […]
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. —C. […]
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates. —Benjamin Franklin— Anytime you […]
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. —George Washington— Given the direction the winds are blowing, and assuming they stay the course, it’s certain that anyone publicly expressing the traditional definition of marriage and gender (be he pastor or laity) will eventually […]
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, […]
If Amazon wants to sell books, maybe it ought to stop banning them! —Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and the senior writers at FRC— “These books [that Amazon has banned] have been life-saving instruments to some who have been struggling to find hope. They have been a beacon of light to those of us who […]
To the Representatives and Senators of the Tennessee Legislature and to Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam Eight Reasons to Pass and Sign HB2414/SB2387 into Law HB2414 will protect the privacy rights of students in Tennessee’s public schools. Boys and girls should not have to worry about invasion of privacy when they use the restroom, and the presence […]
Tennessee Attorney General Slatery’s Assessment of HB2414 Is Flawed The people of Tennessee are tired of having their public policies being dictated to them by the various branches of the federal government, and they sure don’t want the state surrendering without a fight to the Obama administration on whether boys can choose to use a […]
A heated debate over bathroom access similar to what we’ve seen in other states already is playing out in Tennessee. With very little effort and no publicity, pastors in the Volunteer State can act to protect Tennessee’s children and can make a huge difference in this debate. If you’re a pastor, will you volunteer? Will you, […]
Apollo 13 was launched on time from the Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970 at 2:13 p.m. EST. It was to be the third manned space flight to land on the moon, but an onboard explosion on the second day of the mission turned the mission into a quest to bring the crew home […]
The vote in North Carolina to preserve the natural definition of marriage took place a mere ten years ago, in 2012. When the people of North Carolina passed Amendment 1, Thom Tillis, a Republican who later would become one of the Tar Heel state’s US Senators, was serving as the Speaker of the North Carolina […]
Key point: Leftists either intentionally are ignoring the obvious, or they are blind to the obvious. Mark it down. In a war with reality, reality always wins. As you are well aware, a great deal has been happening on the national stage in recent days. I won’t be able to cover everything, and certainly I […]
Note: This article showcases a less-than-six-minute audio clip a from an April 4, 2022 Cross Politic Studios podcast featuring attorney Jeff Shafer, currently director of the Hale Institute at New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. In the clip, Shafer warns that Obergefell, by mandating what many have called “marriage equality,” is upending existing law by effectively […]
Marriage is based on the truth that men and women are complementary, the biological fact that reproduction depends on a man and a woman, and the reality that children need a mother and a father. Redefining marriage does not simply expand the existing understanding of marriage; it rejects these truths. Marriage is society’s least restrictive […]
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