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  • If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting

    If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting0

    On Monday afternoon, Tennessee law enforcement officers captured a 29-year-old Illinois man suspected of opening fire on diners at a Nashville Waffle House, despite the man having had his firearms seized on multiple occasions in the last two years. Four people died and several others were wounded by the shooter—who wore nothing but a green

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  • 6 Reasons Evangelical Churches Should Consider Giving Confession a Shot

    6 Reasons Evangelical Churches Should Consider Giving Confession a Shot1

    As a child, the Catholic rite of confession always seemed mysterious to me. I once asked my father why our church didn’t do that. He offered a lengthy exegesis on the nature of sin and how it separates humans from God, adding that God alone can atone for human sin. Or something along those lines—I

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  • What if Women Had Voted on Women’s Suffrage?

    What if Women Had Voted on Women’s Suffrage?0

    G.K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong with the World contains a section of feminism.  By way of providing an accurate preview of what’s to come, he titled it “Feminism, Or the Mistake about Woman.”  Yes, G. K. Chesterton had his differences with the feminist movement, then in its infancy.  Chief among his differences was the mistaken view

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  • 18 Earth Day Predictions That Were Spectacularly Wrong

    18 Earth Day Predictions That Were Spectacularly Wrong0

    Yesterday (Sunday, April 22) was Earth Day 2018 and time for my annual Earth Day post….. In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey

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  • When ‘Civilization’ Became a Bad Word

    When ‘Civilization’ Became a Bad Word0

    Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” mini-series, produced by the BBC and aired on American public television in 1969, celebrated the Western art and culture it depicted and explained. The show was one of the most widely watched and re-aired shows of its kind at the time, and is still discussed today, almost fifty years after its television debut.

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  • Peter Hitchens on the War in Syria: An Interview

    Peter Hitchens on the War in Syria: An Interview0

    I was reading George Will on Syria. The piece consists of this: Obligatory reference to the Germans dropping chemical weapons. Wikipedia level knowledge of the types of weapons and a strained causal link to Israel’s motivations in destroying Syrian airfield, completely oblivious of the greater strategic considerations. Mild Wikipedia level history to show that the

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