Porn: A ‘victimless’ crime?
The issue of pornography and whether it is a benign or malignant influence on society has been a persistent and controversial topic in American society since at least the emergence of Hugh Hefner and the Playboy “philosophy” in the late 1950s and early 1960s. As the sexual revolution of the 1960s progressed, pornography became a […]
Genetic engineering: Where should Christian ethics draw the line?
The mega-ethical question of who and what is a human being is brought to one’s mind with increasing frequency by the accelerating advances in scientific technology. As human beings increasingly apply extraordinary advances in scientific research to remedy human impairments, the inevitable questions of how such advances could be applied to enhance “normal” human functioning […]
FIRST-PERSON: Do we still need the ERLC?
Forty years ago, the idea of seeing Roe v. Wade overturned in our lifetime was little more than a dream and a prayer. Those of us in the pro-life movement – including and especially Southern Baptists, through the work of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission – worked tirelessly to that end, but we did […]
A plan for Ukraine: Roadmap to Genuine Peace in the Region
The Russo-Ukraine War has tragic stalemate stamped all over it. The Russians are dug in and are apparently willing to endure casualty rates that normally only non-democratic oligarchies can sustain politically over time. The Ukrainians, who have fought bravely and well, though outgunned and outmanned, show little sign of surrendering their freedom, no matter the […]
Only the Reality of the Resurrection Explains the Early Church
As followers of Jesus Christ our risen Lord and Savior, we are preparing to celebrate our most sacred and important event — the Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus the Messiah. We must lay aside all the secular accoutrements which have attached themselves to Easter — Easter egg hunts and Easter bunnies, etc. — and focus […]
The Epidemic of Political Violence: Tesla, Elon Musk and Luigi Mangione
Over the past several months hundreds, if not thousands, of acts of violence have been perpetrated against the Tesla Corporation and its creator, Elon Musk. Tesla auto dealerships have been torched and vandalized and thousands of individually owned Tesla automobiles have been vandalized and defaced. Literally thousands of Tesla cars have been damaged or defaced […]
Should Religious Charter Schools Be Funded by Public Tax Money?
A recent New York Times opinion piece titled “The Urgent Supreme Court Case That’s Not Getting Enough Attention,” penned by Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, longtime U.S. Supreme Court reporter, has a headline that should arrest the reader’s attention because it is, if anything, an understatement. The Supreme Court case in question, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. […]
‘The Long Road Home’ Explores Cash Family’s Generational Drug Addiction (movie review)
I had the extraordinary privilege last weekend of attending an early screening of a new 55-minute documentary entitled “The Long Road Home: The Cash Family’s Untold Story.” The documentary, which was produced by Oxvision Media (and Cindy Cash), working with the Cash family, tells the tragic story of how drug addiction has ravaged generations of […]
Porn Access Age Verification: Does Adult Anonymity Trump Protecting Minors?
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this week in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a case generated by legal challenges to a law passed in Texas in 2023. The law required pornography distributors on websites which contained more than one-third “sexual material harmful to minors” to require “reasonable age verification methods.” The original law […]
America Has Been a Faith-Based Initiative From the Beginning
When one surveys America’s history, she has been a faith-based initiative from when the first Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts Bay in 1620. The pursuit of becoming the “city on a hill” lighting the way for the Old World captured the imagination, will, and purpose of what became the American Experiment. The Puritan vision so captured […]