On October 7, 2023, thousands of Jews were raped, tortured, kidnapped, and killed by terrorists. For many, what was most striking about the attacks was not that Hamas hated Jews, but the reaction in the West. Antisemitic attacks and harassment have reached levels unseen in decades, and many Westerners seem either willfully ignorant or tacitly supportive of Israel’s enemies. 　　Many...

　　A recent New York Times headline was itself almost as instructive and revealing as the article that followed. “The Quiet Way Democrats Hope to Expand Their Power at the State Level” details a strategy adopted by the Democratic Governors Association to support the campaigns of Democratic gubernatorial candidates who will have the opportunity to appoint state court judges in the...

　　The Power of Empathy 　　By Jen Ferguson 　　“We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weakand not to please ourselves.” Romans 15:1, NIV 　　I came down the stairs, my mind and stomach churning with anxiety. How will I get it all done? I thought. I recently received the blessing of increasing my hours at my job,...

　　Nothing has improved Steven Breyer’s legal theory work so much as leaving the Supreme Court. His two books of scholarship as a justice were busts. Active Liberty claimed that the Court should shape its jurisprudence to advance democracy. But most of what was interesting about that proposition had already been stated more eloquently and persuasively by John Hart Ely in...

　　A specter is haunting capitalism – the specter of “higher” things. 　　Or so an increasing number of thinkers among the New Right, the National Conservatives, or the Economic Nationalists might say. They insist that the “neoliberal” order of free enterprise and free trade has failed to deliver cultural and spiritual goods – and even economic goods – to large swaths...

　　“Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do...

　　Weekend, March 23, 2024 　　The Cup of Suffering 　　But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering the Father has given me?” (John 18:11 NLT) 　　One day the mother of James and John, the Sons of Thunder, approached Jesus with them and said, “In your Kingdom, please let...

　　A Prayer for Hope and Renewal This Easter Season 　　By Ashley Moore 　　“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” -Romans 15:13, ESV 　　What comes to mind when you hear the word hope? For me, I often think about specific...

　　After more than two years of uncertainty and at times, chaos, the Southern Baptist Conventions Executive Committee has a new president. 　　At a special meeting in Dallas, members of the committeewhich oversees the work of the 13 million-member denomination in between its annual meetingsunanimously elected Jeff Iorg as its new president and CEO. The meeting was held in executive session,...

　　Dune: Part Two is a blockbuster worthy of the name. Earning over $200 million dollars so far at the box office, it is the highest-grossing film of 2024, and proof that, in the era of superhero film fatigue—as well as the failure of storytelling that characterized Disney’s Star Wars trilogy—there is a real opening to attract audiences with new and...

　　It is Finished! (And it really is.) 　　by Julie Zine Coleman 　　“After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, “I am thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His...

　　During the nineteenth-century debates over slavery, many of the institution’s most ardent defenders opposed a liberal society for being antithetical to the Southern slave economy. One theorist in this mold was George Fitzhugh, a Virginian lawyer and social theorist whom the famously-caned Radical Republican Charles Sumner described as “a leading writer among Slave-masters.” Writing only a few years before the...