Many of the most recent and insidious acts of far-left violence have been carried out by ideological refugees. These were true believers, people who bought into the transgender ideology peddled to them. Tragically, because they believed it, they acted on it. Most did great damage to their minds, many did irreversible damage to their bodies,
READ MOREPaul writes plainly in 2 Corinthians 11:14: “No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” This isn’t a metaphor. It’s a real warning. Satan doesn’t come dressed in red carrying a pitchfork. He comes dressed in white, speaking convincingly about holiness and truth. His dark disguise is counterfeit light. The Myth Worth
READ MOREDuring a recent move, I came across a copy of a 2021 letter I’d sent to my grandchildren. According to their parents, my older grandkids, then roughly ages eight to 16, were troubled and confused by the restrictions of the Covid pandemic and the bitter political divisions evident in the 2020 presidential race. In the
READ MOREAlthough one who enjoys a healthy amount of popular culture, I have moved beyond the hope that network television or streaming media is going to purposefully depict Christian philosophical or theological concepts accurately. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised when watching season two of “The Pitt,” HBO’s hit series. There has been plenty of discussion as
READ MORESeveral years ago, I joined some friends on a trip to Mackinac Island, a place famous for its Victorian culture and ban on automobiles. After bicycling around the island, we decided to splurge and have tea at The Grand Hotel, which is as polished as its name sounds. Before trooping in for tea, however, we
READ MOREIn the literary world, postmodernism was a movement defined by cynicism, absurdism, satire, and irony. At some point, it stopped being a tool with which to diagnose the culture and became the personality of our culture. It crept into our conversations, our art, our politics, and eventually into the way we talk to those we
READ MORE“Failure is one of God’s educators,” writes William George Jordan in his 1898 book, “The Majesty of Calmness.” I agree, but with this exception: You actually must sit in that classroom, eyes and ears open, notebook at the ready. Too often politicians and many other Americans are asleep or cutting class during that lesson. Which
READ MOREThe much-anticipated release of the newest season of “The Bachelorette,” starring influencer Taylor Frankie Paul, was recently canceled. The reason was a leaked video showing Paul putting her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, into a headlock during a domestic fight and throwing a metal chair at him that hit her daughter instead. The entire altercation was not
READ MOREI’m Gen Z, a recent college graduate, and a newly engaged woman. I have a lot of life ahead of me, and hopefully, a lot to which I can look forward. But it seems that everywhere I turn I’m met with such slogans such as: “The West is in decline”; “Millennials and Gen Z are
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