A new book offers insights into both what ails our civilization and what can revitalize it. The author is not shy about calling out our obsession with identity politics as faux religion, nor about recalling us to the true one. Read More… Spencer Klavan’s How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises identifies five crises he believes are plaguing the West and slowly undermining America: Reality, the Body, Meaning, Religion, and Regimes. Klavan argues that beneath the...

This Good Friday, take time to consider the role silence played in the Passion of Christ, and the role it should play in our daily call to humility. Read More… If you enter a Catholic church this Good Friday, you will notice the atmosphere of silence and emptiness that hangs over the sanctuary. The tabernacle doors are open, revealing the vacancy within. The altar is bare of any covering or ornament. The figures of saints all stand muffled by dark...

A recent article published in the evangelical magazine of record says that Christianity is not necessary for democracy. But its argument is muddled and use of terms confused. More important: it’s just plain wrong. Read More… Depending on one’s perspective, religious freedom was either born or died with the founding of the United States of America. The colonial powers of Europe of the late 18th century had dominant religious majorities and established churches. The American republic was founded with an...

A new movie starring Kelsey (Frasier) Grammer about the Jesus Movement of the 1960s and ’70s shows how true religious growth means turning passion into concrete action. Read More… My initial impression of the film Jesus Revolution was a simple one, albeit a bit self-centered from a Gen-Z movie reviewer: This isn’t a Gen-Z movie. Rife with bell-bottom jeans, hippie culture, and portrayals of anti-government angst, the film tells the origin story of the Jesus movement of the 1960s and...

A highly praised book that lays bare the presuppositions that inform the “science” of social science invites readers to rethink how they interpret what is popularly considered “real,” not to mention “human.” Read More… Jason Blakely is professor of political science at Pepperdine University and has written a book, We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power, that is likely to perturb some, gratify others, but interest almost everyone. He writes on the many ways in which...

Calling a business, civic organization, or even school a “family” may be well-intended es with unintended consequences that do an injustice to the mitments that should be made to our actual families. Read More… e to pany—we are a family and we’re glad you’re part of it! You are not just a student here, you’re a member of the family. We’re not just a business. We’re a family. Businesses, schools, banks, massive corporations, even small nonprofits often speak of their...

Hollywood has a new hit, an adaptation of the role-playing game where the medieval virtues of physical courage, sacrifice, and protection of the weak are turned on their head to make a mockery of the traditional male hero. The question is, in service of what? Read More… The most popular entertainment for boys not yet overtaken by the miserable ideology of our times is the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons, a source of friendship and adventure. It became a part...

One of the great evangelical preachers in church history left an indelible mark not only on all who heard him in his day but on anyone who wanted to reach the lost with the Gospel message of hope and reconciliation. Read More… George Whitefield’s first sermon after his ordination, in June 1736, prompted plaint to the bishop! He later printed the sermon with the title On the Nature and Necessity of Our Regeneration or New Birth. Whitefield was never far...

Journalist Marvin Olasky gives us a peek inside the travails of the passionate conservatism” of the late 1990s and the early messaging of the GW Bush presidential campaign. Whither the GOP on poverty and welfare reform? Read More… ’Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave, ’Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore ’Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave Oh! Hard e again no more. After twice vetoing welfare reform bills, President...

Qualified lawyers could be the difference maker in Lai’s push for freedom. Read More… Jimmy Lai is one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most prominent targets, and for good reason. The 75-year-old Hong Kong entrepreneur now sits shackled in solitary confinement for the crime of fighting for democracy. Lai’s freedom may now hang on his access to top international lawyers, which the CCP has sought to curtail at every step of the legal process. Yet Lai remains mitted—if he can...