N.T. Wright - Wrong
Penna Dexter Historic Christianity celebrates May 31st as The Feast of the Visitation, which has also been described as the first meeting of Jesus and John the Baptist. Mary, early in her pregnancy, t...
Bigger Government
Kerby Anderson The current debate about the federal budget centers on whether the government is too big and too inefficient. Most Republicans argue that the federal government is too big. Many Democra...
Juneteenth
Kerby Anderson Today is Juneteenth. You may know it as a recently declared federal holiday, but I have found that most Americans (outside of those who live in Texas) don’t know much about it, which is...
Compared to Whom?
Kerby Anderson “To know only one country is to know none.” That insight by Seymour Martin Lipset is so important that Jonah Goldberg believes it should be pounded into the heads of every high school s...
Political Realignment
Kerby Anderson One of the common mistakes among Christians is to assume that the future will be merely an extension of the present. We might assume there will be some changes, but often we can’t imagi...
AI and Human Control
Kerby Anderson You may remember the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” where the computer, HAL 9000, would not allow itself to be shut down by the astronauts. HAL begins to malfunction in subtle ways but...
Pride’s Slowing Momentum
Penna Dexter It’s Pride Month again. It used to be called gay pride. Now — in an effort to force the concept on all of us — it’s just Pride. There are Pride celebrations taking place across the coun...
Outsourcing Our Brains
Kerby Anderson Many of the concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence focus on AI and should instead focus on the human using it. That is why Christians Schneider warns about “The Danger of...
Trump and Dolls
Kerby Anderson Last month, President Trump stirred up social media when he seemed to be proposing a two-doll limit. He recognized there might be some economic pain associated with his tariffs so he re...
Retirement Age
Kerby Anderson For decades, we have heard that the U.S. needs to be more like Europe. But as I have documented in previous commentaries, if we were more like Europe, we would have less liberal aborti...
Welfare and Work
Kerby Anderson The budget bill that Congress considered had a provision requiring states to enforce a work requirement for able-bodied individuals on Medicaid between the ages of 19 and 64. Dr. Merril...
Overregulation
Kerby Anderson I think most Americans believe we have too many government regulations. But I suspect most don’t have the faintest idea of the extent of these government regulations. Last month, Presid...
