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How should pro-life Christians answer objections to Amy Coney Barrett?
The remainder of the month of October’s frequent and often heated debates about Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s proposed elevation to the highest court in the land will compete with the looming presidential election race for airtime on the nation’s myriad broadcast and internet news outlets. The American public will be subjected to a barrage of […]
Upcoming Course: Christian Theology, Racism, and Social Justice
Writing on scraps of paper, without notes or references, from a Birmingham jail cell, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously penned these words, “I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’ … To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human […]
Why do so many young Americans hate their country’s heritage?
I have had scores of Americans ask me that question in the last few months. My inquisitors have been baffled and perplexed as to why so many of our twenty and thirty- something citizens seem to so readily jettison what my questioners cherish as rich, meaningful, and critically important — an American heritage that has […]
Why Release a Statement on Racism and Social Justice?
SES recently released a rather lengthy statement outlining our specific take on current racial tensions and social justice issues. After two months of national unrest over these issues, why release a statement now? Hasn’t everything been said from a Christian position that needs to be said? Those are fair questions. It would seem that it […]
Are There Modern Forms of “Eugenics”?
Question: Are there modern forms of “eugenics” about which we should be concerned? Yes, there are modern, cutting-edge technologies concerning human reproduction that taken together, constitute a high-tech almost surreal eugenics that like the old eugenics, seeks to create “bigger and better” human offspring. In a previous column I introduced the subject of eugenics and […]
Barbarians are at the Gate
The barbarians are at the gate, and they are in the centers of American cities, tearing down statues and memorials representing our history and our heritage. They started with Confederate political leaders and generals. Many of us understood from the beginning that the Confederate generals were clearly a Trojan horse. Let me be clear: the […]