Government prediction about the number of COVID-19 deaths was drastically overplayed, as was the rate of mortality. As always, humility and fallibility about the present should inform how we’ll look […]
He’s making a list and checking it twice: How Santa Claus explains ethical theory
We all know how the story goes at Christmastime: Only the well-behaved children are the ones that get Christmas presents. How many of us as children heard this oft-repeated warning […]
Kanye, Conversion, and the Ethics of Learned Obedience
A lot of news has circulated around Kanye West’s very public conversion to Christianity. Though we should be overjoyed at the news that Kanye West has become a born-again Christian, […]
Mass Shootings and the Church’s Opportunity in Confronting the American Male Mindset
Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso is an unmitigated tragedy. What we know at this point is that, once again, a shooter was guided by a naked white supremacy and […]
Is Polyamory on the Horizon in American Culture?
Even before the Supreme Court exercised raw judicial power and wrongly redefined marriage, social conservatives predicted that removing the conjugal (or complementary) basis of marriage would leave marriage open to further redefinition. Their warnings were met with scorn by progressives, who believed that conservative fears were unfounded.
Critical theory and Christian ethics: can they co-exist?
On May 15, The Gospel Coalition published a very good essay by Neil Shenvi and Pat Sawyer arguing that critical theory is incompatible with Christianity. Considering the level of confusion […]