Want to blame something for your kids’ (and perhaps for your) obsession with screens? You can start with consoles like Game Boy and videogames like Tetris—the latter of which was the brainchild of a Soviet citizen living on the verge of freedom. There’s a lot of backstory to be found in that tiny screen. Read More… It may be hard to picture now, when American children spend seemingly every waking hour absorbed in Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, but once upon...

A debate over whether Christianity is necessity for freedom and democracy to flourish misses the point: no one religion has a monopoly on planting the seeds for liberty. Instead, freedom is the very essence of what it means to be human. Grasping this will make cooperation between civilizations more likely. Read More… Paul D. Miller, a professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University, has argued in a recent essay in Christianity Today that Christianity is not necessary...

One more obstacle has been put in the way of securing justice for Hong Kong’s most famous and outspoken voice for freedom. Read More… Jimmy Lai is Hong Kong’s most persecuted freedom fighter. Jailed in December 2020 for the crime of protesting the Chinese Communist Party’s clampdown on civil rights in Hong Kong, the 75-year-old fashion mogul and entrepreneur faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted of violating the CCP’s National Security Law, which took effect in June...

The Nobel Peace Prize–nominated Hong Konger has been dealt another legal blow in his defense against “foreign-collusion” charges under the Beijing-inspired National Security Law. Read More… Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance has rejected Jimmy Lai’s appeal challenging the denial of access to U.K. counsel. In November of last year, a national mittee denied Lai, a U.K. citizen, the right to add King’s Counsel Tim Owen, a veteran U.K. lawyer specializing in the rights of political prisoners, to his defense...

It has been reported that Dr. Timothy J. Keller, founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NYC, teacher, bestselling author, and most importantly, preacher of the gospel, is dead. Don’t believe it. Read More… I’ve been a Christian for almost half a century, sometimes with a critical spirit toward sermons. So I’ll now write something I’ve never written before and never expect to write again: the best preacher I’ve ever heard “died” last Friday. I’ll refer to Tim Keller in...

Integralists’ bid bine church and state will result in reaction and violence against the Church, its leaders and pastors, and laypeople. Better to pursue genuine Catholic principles of solidarity and subsidiarity. Read More… One consequence of what Italian philosopher Augusto del Noce calls our present “age of secularization” is the paradoxical modern tendency of atheists to divinize politics and the state. What the Church once undid, ideology would rejoin. In its extreme form, we see this in fascism, Nazism, munism....

GAFCON IV may seem like much ado about an already fragmented Anglican Communion, but what it heralds about the future of global Christianity is as significant as what it reminds us about the long-term spiritual impact of the British Empire. Read More… As an ecclesial model, Anglicanism has until recently managed controversy and diversity better than almost any other. The generous boundaries of the tradition have space for a wide spectrum of expressions, from low-church evangelical to the Anglo-Catholicism of...

Nothing less than the future of a free press is at stake as Lai’s trial approaches. Read More… Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s most famous freedom fighter, is still in prison. In September, he will face a trial that could leave him spending the rest of his life behind bars for the crime of standing against the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on Hong Kong and the civil rights it had enjoyed. The CCP knows that obscuring Lai’s story is the best...

Hollywood has been hit with its first strike in 15 years, and it may not end the way the last one did. That doesn’t mean the writers don’t have a legitimate cause—or that audiences don’t deserve better than the rebooted and woke pap that studios have been serving up of late. Read More… Although most people probably haven’t noticed yet, there is a currently a writers strike happening in Hollywood. For the time being, the main programs affected have been...

The less-famous brother of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, Charles nevertheless left a lasting legacy of rich hymnody that churches around the world enjoy to this day. Read More… The evangelical revival we have been revisiting not only left a legacy of Christians and churches renewed and empowered but also a devotional spirituality embedded in hymn and song. Charles Wesley (1707–1788) worked tirelessly alongside his elder brother John as evangelist and pastor. He is the less studied...