PayPal Fiasco
Kerby Anderson Earlier this month, PayPal sent out an update to its acceptable use policy (AUP). It included the shocking addition that it might fine people up to $2,500 if they spread misinformation....
Criminalizing Truthful Reporting
Penna Dexter The US Justice Department has been asked to investigate, with an eye toward prosecuting, Americans who are reporting on and opposing life-altering gender reassignment surgeries. Reports a...
Jeremiah and Poverty
Kerby Anderson Sometimes the verse in Jeremiah 29:11 has been misapplied since it originally was directed at the Jews in the Old Testament. It says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the...
Divided We Fall
Kerby Anderson America is a house divided. That is the central message of the book by David French, Divided We Fall. His book was selected by World magazine as its book of the year, and I had him on m...
Social Media Censorship
Kerby Anderson Most of us are aware of how pervasive social media censorship has become over the last few years. But a recent commentary by Daniel Gelernter illustrates how bizarre some of the censors...
Chump Effect
Kerby Anderson James Meigs, writing in City Journal, talks about what he calls “the chump effect.” He is not the first to use the phrase. Andrew Ferguson coined the phrase years ago to deal with a di...
Spotlighting Gender Clinics
Penna Dexter The facet of the gender transition craze I have found most shocking is how easy it is for young people to get gender transition hormones and radical surgeries at clinics often operated ou...
Energy and Carbon Emissions
Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about the need to have some discernment when reading about energy usage figures cited in news articles. It is also important to put the estimates about carbon dioxid...
Energy Use
Kerby Anderson American media is paying more attention to how we use energy, but sometimes there is value in putting some of the estimates into perspective. First, a confession. I am the person in ou...
Rebel’s Manifesto
Kerby Anderson Sean McDowell observes that “In a culture that glamorizes sex, chases fame, and shames those who don’t fall in line, it takes a rebel to be a Christian.” That is why the title of his n...
Sexual Restraint
Kerby Anderson More than three decades ago, I wrote and recorded a week of radio programs on “The Decline of a Nation.” One of the days I focused on the decline of the family and quoted J.D. Unwin. I...
