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,…
The other day at a friends-of-the library, used-book sale, I picked up a copy of Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids. The author recounts a month’s worth of experience in Maine, doing time as a substitute teacher with…
Amidst all the ongoing chaos on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is working to deliver a boon to the cannabis industry with the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFER) Banking Act. Predictably, some Republicans have joined him under the…
Boys and men in the United States are doing poorly by essentially every objective measure. Sources as diverse as the New York Times, National Review, The Brookings Institution, and the American Psychological Association agree. It’s bad and getting worse every…
Willie McLaurin and I have something in common: We both have had to step down from leading a Southern Baptist Convention entity — he as interim president of the Executive Committee, I as president of Midwestern Seminary. He just resigned…
The desecration of a 14-foot wooden cross erected last month at a Catholic Father’s Day Retreat in Orange County, California, is just the most recent attack on yet another sacred symbol for Catholics in a culture that continues to revile…
I recently read a conservative writer who opined: “We have lost the culture wars” (not in the pages of The American Spectator, by the way). The author’s announcement was a veritable white flag, a signal that we conservatives should do…
When my Dad met my Mom for the first time, he threw her straight into a lake without a single word. Debbie Bailey came up sputtering mad. “You jerk!” she called him, among other things. That is not what one…
I published an appreciation of my father, Ivan D. Thunder, on these pages on November 1, 2010, three days after he had passed at age 97. He was a native of California and I called him “our California redwood,” straight…
There is little that political tyrants fear more than religion. Most faiths call people to put their trust in something transcendent, to which all worldly pursuits, including government, are subject. God, not the president, king, general secretary, czar, prime minister,…