The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) at its annual meeting on Thursday voted to investigate the Christian appropriateness of the best-selling book Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, who was part of the PCA and died in August last year at age 77. Young was one of the most-read evangelicals of the last 20 years. 　　Pastors in the denomination are concerned...

　　The Supreme Court rejected a bid for more restrictions on the drugs for medication abortions, ruling against a group that included pro-life Christian doctors. 　　The doctors had argued that one drug, mifepristone, was unsafe, and that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to uphold proper procedure when it relaxed regulations to obtain the drug by mail and at...

　　The Neo-Brandeisian conception of antitrust touted by Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and others can be boiled down to “big business is bad.” Their response, in short, is to develop a complex regulatory regime that prevents the ills associated with that bigness. 　　This approach suffers from at least two flaws: first, it assumes that regulatory costs will hit the...

　　According to recent opinion polls, Americans are very unhappy with universities. But a primary cause of that discontent is the very reason we measure popular opinion about them: The democratic ideal enjoys sweeping influence over all our institutions, not only its rightful domain over the explicitly political. Alexis de Tocqueville warned that such was the power of democracy in America...

　　Living by Faith 　　Weekly Overview: 　　Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”Faith is the undercurrent of everything we do as followers of Jesus. Without faith we lose all that Christ died to give us while here on earth. It is by faith we access the peace, joy, guidance, love,...

　　In the weeks before the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting, newly elected president Clint Pressley finished reading Malcom Gladwells book on precision bombing in World War II, Erik Larsons bestseller set in the lead-up to the Civil War, and a history of a 19th-century mutiny on a Royal Navy vessel. 　　A few years ago, these stories could have been...

　　Jules Woodson remembers the spark of hope she felt when a sea of yellow ballots went up across the hall at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting in 2022. The vote in favor of abuse reform following a watershed abuse investigation was her sign that the messengers cared about victims like her and were willing to listen and make...

　　The Department of Education’s new Title IX regulations become effective August 1, 2024. Not surprisingly, they have already garnered numerous lawsuits. These highly partisan regulations essentially reissue the Obama administration’s attempts to mandate a parallel justice system for adjudicating campus peer sexual misconduct, as well as other policies that redefined “sex” to include “gender identity.” These earlier attempts were quickly...

　　On the surface, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association represents a triumph of originalism. Justice Thomas’s majority decision for seven members of the Court expertly employs originalist methodology. The dissent, by Justice Alito, is also written from an originalist perspective, adopting a different view of the original meaning. But below the...

　　Feelings Are Not Lord, God Is 　　By Kelly Balarie 　　““Trust in the Lord with all your heart 　　And do not lean on your own understanding. 　　In all your ways acknowledge Him, 　　And He will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6 NASB 　　I had no idea that almost every single prayer I prayed was about to be answered in just...

　　When Justice Sotomayor authors an opinion favoring the National Rifle Association, it gets attention. This happened in the case of the NRA v. Vullo, a unanimous opinion holding that a regulatory official engages in viewpoint discrimination against gun-rights advocates when it coerces their insurance companies to stop doing business with them. The case properly concluded that the First Amendment protects...

　　It is increasingly common to hear that the Constitution is the cause—or at least one cause—of Americas political dysfunction. It gets in the way of the efficient government the modern world needs. It does not offer a coherent enough moral vision. It allows too much dissension and factionalism. It does not keep up with the times. All such complaints, Levin...