A “Quiet Revival”

By: Daniel Gullotta – wng.org – July 17, 2025 Gen Z is reportedly returning to church … but the same was once said of Millennials. Scan social media or glance at recent headlines, and you might sense a religious revival brewing among Gen Z. Reports enthusiastically claim that young people (especially young men) are returning to church, driven by newfound…

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Ten Iranian Questions

What are we to make of Saturday night’s destruction of the three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan? Trump and the U.S. military took a great risk and succeeded in astounding…

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Horseshoe Coalition on Israel-Iraq

The ‘restrainer’ right and the progressives sound an awful lot alike on Israel and Iran — but they are on the margins. Source: Coalition Against Israel on Iran: ‘Restrainer’ Right and Progressives Sound Alike | National Review

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China’s Squandered Advantage

Penna Dexter Reuters reports that the Chinese government, which — not-so-long ago — forced a one-child-per family policy on its population, is considering a monthly subsidy to encourage families to have second and third children. Enforcement of the one-child policy was brutal. It included forced abortion and sterilization. A preference for boys led to the practice of sex selective abortion…

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Success Sequence

Penna Dexter It was once a given that a young person would graduate from high school, get a job, marry and then — and only then — have children. No longer. Today, half of American babies are born to unmarried mothers. Economist Melissa Kearney, author of The Two Parent Privilege says, “Roughly 30 percent of kids in the U.S. live outside…

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Pastor Who Almost Quit

By 2024, I had reached a tipping point: I no longer wanted to pastor anymore, and I wasn’t sure why. Looking back, I don’t believe that it had to do with stress as much as discouragement. 

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Equity and Inequity

Kerby Anderson The term “equity” has caused great confusion, perhaps because many social justice warriors intend it to be ambiguous. Sometimes I have been told by my fellow Christians to stop criticizing DEI and equity because Christians should be for equality. Of course, that is not how the term is used. We began to see its meaning during the pandemic….

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‘Equity’ in Misery

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – January 14, 2025 In the case of the L.A. fires, ‘equity’ would require consigning even more homes to the blaze and spreading around the torment more broadly. Occasionally, proponents of the concept of “equity” forget that they are supposed to emphasize the benefits of the discrimination they advocate on behalf of America’s allegedly marginalized minorities. Instead…

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American Inequality

Kerby Anderson Everything you know about income inequality, poverty, and other measures of economic well-being in America is wrong. Former senator Phil Gramm was on my program to make that case recently. He is the co-author of the book, The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate. I might mention that his co-authors hold very different political views…

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