They pounded another nail into the coffin that is traditional amateur athletics on Monday. “They” is an amorphous actor, to be sure, comprising athletes, power brokers, agents, the courts, the government, and general mucky-mucks dissatisfied with a model of amateur…
The surveys about mainline Protestantism just keep coming and coming. And — this might not be news to you — the results of those surveys keep getting worse and worse. Ryan Burge, religious pollster extraordinaire, chimed in with one last…
Beleaguered mayors of blue cities might get some relief from the homelessness problems that nettle their cities. If they do, it will come from conservatives. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a court decision from Oregon that…
As discussions of greatest-ever go, this one’s pretty clear-cut. There’s always room for debate — sports talk radio wouldn’t exist without it — but the best college football coach of all time (the GOAT) has to be the guy in…
It might have failed to generate news as recently as 10 years ago, but an Orange County, California, city making conservative noises has captured the attention of no less a stalwart of progressive thought than the Los Angeles Times. According…
The last Selection Sunday of the four-team College Football Playoff era went down pretty much according to chalk. Michigan’s inclusion everybody was certain of. Undefeated, ranked No. 1, conqueror of archrival Ohio State. Nobody for a moment doubted their bona…
The window that opened in 2019 to allow United Methodist churches to depart their embattled denomination closes in a week or so, at the end of the year, and at this late hour, approximately one-fourth of the member churches that…
Good news on the religious-liberty front from Finland: it is not a hate crime to quote the Bible’s views on homosexuality and marriage. As outrageous as it sounds, the top prosecutor of that Nordic country wanted to make it so,…
Maybe it was the media saturation and attendant pundit adoration of Deion Sanders, Colorado’s new football coach, that spurred LeBron James’ ego into action. Coach Prime has been sucking a fair bit of the oxygen out of the sporting-world room…
The church bodies of conservative Protestantism are seeing the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 for the unspeakable and indefensible outrage that it is and are justifying Israel’s militant response as a legitimate application of “just war” doctrine. To…