Weekend, November 16, 2024 　　God Is Sovereign 　　“I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you.” (Job 42:2 NLT) 　　Sovereignty is a tough concept to wrap our heads around, especially in today’s highly influenceable culture. Everyone answers to someone. Public figures change their stances based on the feedback they get. Politicians are swayed by donors. Corporations...

　　The new originalist majority on the Supreme Court faces a problem: from their originalist viewpoint, many past opinions are ill-reasoned. Certainly, New York Times v. Sullivan is one of them. It thus may well be a candidate for overruling. Professor Holloway is to be congratulated for putting its reconsideration on the table. 　　That said, overruling Sullivan raises many difficult questions...

　　Making sense of the geopolitical landscape after 1989 would be hard enough without the self-inflicted fantasy that ideology, and thus history, had reached its final resting place. Once the infamous Iron Wall pulverized into the dustbin of history, Western intellectuals fed on a steady diet of dialectics proclaimed the emergence of a new consensus. The new world no longer needed...

　　THE JOY OF THANKS-LIVING 　　In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 　　1 Thessalonians 5:18 　　We've arrived at the best time of the year – the Thanksgiving/Christmas season. I just love being with family and friends… enjoying great food, great fellowship, and great football (Go Longhorns!). 　　As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we tend to focus...

　　Weekly Overview: 　　Trust is something we are not created to give away lightly. We value trust like we value our own lives, constantly scrutinizing others to see if they're worthy of our trust. But still we are made to do life with help. We are made to place our trust in that which will provide us with more life, joy,...

　　One prominent political commentator asserted that the presidential election was anxiety-inducing for many Americans. This is because the contest was angry and abusive. And society is now torn to pieces. And if that wasn’t enough to stress people out, how the campaign unfolded in the months leading up to Election Day provides more evidence that the nations two political parties...

　　Disparity studies comparing various demographic groups based on different outcomes in education, employment, health, housing, and income have been a staple of public policy analysis for decades. Depending on the variables controlled for, it may be argued that a group is underutilized, underrepresented, or even marginalized. Nowhere, however, have these studies had such legal significance as their effect on public...

　　Get Out of Your Comfort Zone 　　By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox 　　Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.- 1 Corinthians 10:24 　　Marriage is between two different people—obviously. But sometimes, it can seem as if marriage is between two very different people. The old adage “opposites attract” proves true more often than not. That’s what...

　　In the summer of 2022, something extraordinary happened in America’s modern constitutional history. The Supreme Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, reversed its earlier creation, in Roe v. Wade, of a constitutional right to abortion. By this ruling, the Dobbs Court destroyed a key assumption that had come to govern our thinking about the trajectory of American constitutional...

　　Last week, Donald Trump won reelection on the back of an evolving coalition. Trump turned out a more diverse racial coalition than most Republicans before him, and used populist and protectionist rhetoric to reclaim working-class voters that first elevated him to the presidency. Another part of his coalition is a fusion of populists and more traditional conservatives who differ from...

　　For Those Who Fear They’ll Be Deceived 　　By Jennifer Slattery 　　Bible Reading 　　Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing...

　　When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America between May 9, 1831, and February 20, 1832, he encountered a world that he believed might prefigure the political future for modern societies. He also found himself in the midst of an economy that had begun its rise to become the world’s biggest and most dynamic. 　　Today, Tocqueville is celebrated as a political thinker...