Recent Viewpoints

Penna Dexter  This month is the third anniversary of the 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell vs. Hodges. The decision brought us same-sex marriage across the land because it struck down all state laws that specified that marriage is the union between one man and one woman.    When a court hands down a sweeping ruling that changes something you have known to be true about the world, it’s well worth studying the dissenting opinion. Chief Justice Roberts, for the first time in…

Kerby Anderson What is the American Creed? That is a question David Gelernter asks in his book, America-Lite. He has been on my radio program to talk about his book and his op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. He is a fascinating individual. He received two degrees in classical Hebrew literature, but then became a professor of computer science at Yale University. Some have called him a “rock star” in the world of computing. You might also remember…

Kerby Anderson The marriage rate in America has been in decline for many years. Consider that in the year 2000, married 25-to-34-year-olds outnumbered their never married peers (55% to 34%). By 2015, however, those percentages were almost reversed (40% to 53%). Young people are not getting married for a variety of reasons. Many economists argue that men are avoiding marriage because they have lower wages and want to increase their income before asking a woman to marry them. But the…

Kerby Anderson The US birth rate has been dropping for decades and has now reached an historic low according to the data published by the Centers for Disease Control. Response to this new data has been varied. An article in Vox  provides a number of charts to explain the phenomenon and then concludes that the historically low birthrate could be a sign of progress. Other commentators (especially Christian commentators) warn that we are headed for a “demographic winter.” The fertility…

Kerby Anderson Major depression has “surged” in the US among younger Americans. That is according to a report based on medical and survey information conducted by Blue Cross Blue Shield. The survey looked at 41 million people covered under the insurance plan. Why the dramatic increase? Perhaps further study will give more definitive answers, but the report had some educated guesses. The researchers suspect that online activities, such as social media and video games, might be part of the problem….

Kerby Anderson The immigration problem has been festering for years, and so any attempt to solve the immigration problem will not be easy. In the midst of that have been questions from Christians honestly asking how they should apply a biblical solution to this contemporary issue. Samuel Rodriquez is the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and James Robison is an evangelist and founder of LIFE Outreach. They have been working on the immigration problem for years and…

Penna Dexter The Colorado cake baker won his case at the US Supreme Court. But was the 7-2 ruling only for him?  His attorney, Kristen Waggoner, says Jack Phillips is not the only winner. She wrote in the Washington Post that “many other artists who share Phillips’ religious belief will benefit from the decision.” David Cole, the ACLU lawyer who represented the homosexual couple who requested that Phillips design their wedding cake says, “We lost a battle, but won the…

Kerby Anderson A number of recent polls document that young people are more likely to support socialism rather than capitalism. This is no doubt due to the popularity of Senator Bernie Sanders, as well as the lack of understanding of what free market capitalism provides in terms of freedom and economic development. That is one of the reasons I put together a Point of View booklet on A Biblical View on Capitalism and Socialism. In a recent column, Professor Walter Williams…

Kerby Anderson One of the questions many liberals are asking these days is, “What happened to Alan Dershowitz?” The emeritus Harvard Law professor has been critical of the Mueller investigation and talks about the criminalization of politics in his most recent book. But the real question should be reversed: “What happened to all the liberals who used to demand that our civil liberties be protected by government?” Victor Davis Hanson reminds us of how liberals were riding high after the…

Kerby Anderson Should the media refrain from providing the name of a mass shooter? I try never to mention the name of someone who has committed a horrible crime. They don’t need naming; they need shaming. Unfortunately, most in the media don’t follow that policy. John Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Center and has been on my radio program many times. He has pulled together some very convincing evidence that naming a mass shooter and giving him…

Kerby Anderson Perhaps you have read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, The Scarlet Letter. Students who read it today usually react with mockery and ridicule. They wonder how a society could be so prudish and punitive to force Hester Prynne to wear a label of shame for her sin? How unenlightened for society to place public moral condemnation on her! But Dan McLaughlin reminds us in a recent column that “The Scarlet Letter Is Back.” Today we don’t require people to…