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…
Last year, the United Methodist Church accepted Isaac Simmons, who regularly preaches dressed as a drag queen under the name Ms. Penny Cost, as a candidate for ordination. Since that time, Simmons, who serves as an associate pastor at Hope…
A Monday night in January when the temperature is 19 degrees isn’t the best time to realize everything you believe about the Catholic Church is a minority opinion. But there I was, driving to my parish church in the wake…
Many Episcopal parishes followed COVID-19 precautions that were more rigorous than the norm: virtual-only liturgies that endured months after bans on religious services ended, attendance caps, and outdoor-only services. St. Luke the Physician Episcopal Church in Gresham, Oregon, did not…
The Democrats like to keep faith out of politics even as they impose politics on faith. They are happy to harness the power of religion for their own political purposes. Their usually strict views on the “separation of church and…
El reaccionario neto no es soñador de pasados abolidos, Sino cazador de sombras sagradas sobre las colinas eternas The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades in the eternal hills. — Nicolás…
The aftershocks of the Theodore McCarrick scandal are continuing to rock the Church. The latest one came last Thursday. The defrocked cardinal “has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in Massachusetts in 1974,” the…
Pope Francis has often compared the Catholic Church to a “field hospital.” It is an odd analogy in his case, given his penchant for quackery and malpractice. The healthiest patients at his field hospital have their limbs hacked off while…
Catholic parishes, schools, and dioceses have for years responded to transgenderism by simply ignoring the issue altogether. But that’s starting to change, largely because the problem is getting too big for churches to ignore. “My sense is that nearly every…
