Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Should Christian doctors be purged from the U.S. medical system? The question is absurd. Even so it is seriously asked (in a less offensive way) in a recent bioethics journal article. The two authors argue that Christians (and other people who hold to traditional religious beliefs) should not be given the right to refuse to perform services that the physician believes are ethically questionable. They believe that Christians (and others who hold to traditional views) should not be…

Penna Dexter It looks like we’ll end the year with a final defense bill that provides more money for military and defense operations than requested by the administration. It’s normal, in December to find lawmakers working hard to get the National Defense Authorization Act, the NDAA, finalized and to the president’s desk. There are lots of pieces and parts to this bill and members of the conference committee appointed to reconcile the House and Senate versions had their work cut…

Kerby Anderson Dr. Anne Bradley has been on my radio program and in a recent article talks about her first trip to the Soviet Union. Even as a teenager she could see through the attempt to make Russia look more prosperous than it was. In fact, her visit was one of the reasons she became an economist. She ends her article by telling the true story of what happened when Boris Yeltsin visited the United States. He was newly elected…

Kerby Anderson Back in September I talked about the number of fake news sites used by left-leaning bloggers in order to trick conservatives into sharing it so they can then ridicule them. Now things have changed. Various news operations and commentators are now saying that certain conservative groups are promoting fake news because they are fake journalists. In just two months, the whole discussion of fake news is completely reversed. I supposed we shouldn’t be surprised. The Oxford Dictionary just…

Kerby Anderson Today is December 7 – a day that President Roosevelt said would be “a date which will live in infamy.” On that fateful morning of December 7, 1941, America was attacked without warning. More than 2,400 Americans died and 1,100 were wounded. Our country was changed forever. This attack led us into war, and the citizens of America responded with courage and resolve. So it may be well to reflect on what took place and how we today…

Kerby Anderson Americans in general, and even evangelicals in particular, seem confused about important details of their faith. A study done by Lifeway Research found that Americans don’t know much about theology, and many evangelicals seem confused as well. Tyler O’Neil wrote about the 12 Lies American Evangelicals Believe. Here are a few of them. Americans generally believe that their personal salvation depends on good works. The survey found that three-fourths (77%) agreed with the statement that people must contribute…

Kerby Anderson Dr. Tim Keller was on my radio program recently to talk about his new book, Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical. In many ways, it was a prequel to his earlier apologetics book, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. His earlier book, The Reason for God, deals with two large issues: doubt and the reasons for faith. For the skeptic, he attempts to answer the major questions that keep skeptics from…

Penna Dexter On November 7th a United Nations conference on climate change convened in Marrakesh, Morocco. It’s been the plan for years that this meeting would take place just three days after the Paris Climate Treaty went into force, thus hastening its implementation. Ninety-seven countries, accounting for approximately two thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions, have now ratified the treaty. The U.S. is not one of them. The treaty would require that the U.S. reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26…

Kerby Anderson If you think about it, your life is the culmination of lots and lots of decisions. Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup, argues that people make 10,000 to 20,000 small decisions every day. If you multiply this by the U.S. population you end up with one quadrillion decisions. This is one of the points Jeff Myers makes in his book, Understanding the Culture. The legacy you leave is the sum of all of these decisions. Many are inconsequential. Others…

Kerby Anderson Professor George Yancey has some advice for progressives who have been attacking Christians and those who voted for Donald Trump. Now you need to understand that Professor Yancey does not like Donald Trump. Months ago, he came out as a NeverTrumper. He tells progressives that if they don’t want a Trump win in 2020, they need to stop attacking religious freedom. He explains how Christians “feared a loss of religious freedom” in a Clinton administration. He tried to…

Kerby Anderson Although few Americans hear much from various international climate change conferences, many more are likely to see documentaries warning about climate change. The latest is the Leonardo DiCaprio documentary, “Before the Flood.” He is, after all, perhaps the most visible face these days pushing for action on man-made global warming. Nicholas Loris appears briefly in the film, and decided to provide some perspective after seeing how the current science and political debate were portrayed in the film. One…