Eric Metaxas’s new bestseller, Letter to the American Church, triggered immediate opposition from the once ascendant but now waning evangelical industrial complex (EIC) associated with superstar NYC pastor Timothy Keller. Metaxas’s book together with Rod Dreher’s 2020 publication, Live Not…
For a decade running, the nation’s political division has rendered the thought-shapers of the evangelical industrial complex (EIC) virtually unable to celebrate Independence Day with a clear conscience. That disability undermines what the late Englishman and polymath Roger Scruton identified…
Winston Smith of Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwellian fame identified Newspeak as both false and absurd — until he didn’t. “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery”; he’d eventually affirm the entire lexicon. After imprisonment and the torture applied to him there, Winston’s…
Whoopi Goldberg won a two-week suspension and public spanking from The View because she waded into the teeth of a global moral consensus: the Holocaust was genocide and thus, unmitigated evil. Goldberg did not deny the evil. But her denial…
The 13 months that separate Trump’s anti-CRT executive order from Terry McAuliffe’s defeat in the recent Virginia gubernatorial race saw the harvesting of political fruit produced by an amazingly accelerated educational process. Across the steep political divide, a nation came…
For the first time in the nation’s history, many American Christians celebrate Christmas in a land where the welcome mat for the holiday, and perhaps especially for the nativity scenes that recall the birth of the Christ child, has been…
Soon after Alabama pastor Ed Litton was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in June, videos of his years of plagiarizing sermons surfaced and gained national attention. That not one Southern Baptist leader has called for Litton’s resignation…
As the dust settles from the annual meetings of two major evangelical denominations, the contrast between them could hardly be more stark. In St. Louis, courage, that rarest of virtues, won the day at the General Assembly (GA) of the…
We out!” Legend has it that this was the 20-something Harriet Tubman’s response to the impending family breakup planned by her Maryland slave master in 1849. Tubman bolted and headed north to become the most famous conductor on the Underground…
In a stunning reversal on November 30, presidents of the six Southern Baptist seminaries issued a joint statement that said, “we … declare that affirmation of Critical Race Theory (CRT), Intersectionality, and any version of Critical Theory (CT) is incompatible…