Kerby Anderson The fastest growing religious group of our time is the group of young people who check “none” or “none of the above” on religious survey questions. Social scientists therefore refer to them as “the nones.” A few years ago, I did some commentaries about the “nones” but wanted to revisit this topic because we now have more survey statistics that illustrate their growth. From the 1930s to the 1990s, the percentage of “nones” in America was less than…
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Kerby Anderson According to Jonah Goldberg, our political culture seems to be obsessed with narrative building. This is an effort by the speaker to connect the dots between a selective number of facts and statistics to prove a point. Trial lawyers understand how important this is. Our minds look for patterns but are often blocked from seeing them because there might be contradictory facts and data. Shape the narrative into a compelling story, and the jury will arrange the facts…
Kerby Anderson Homosexual activists have been encouraging television producers to promote the LGBT agenda for decades. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that we will now see a transgender child on a TV sitcom. When the television program “Modern Family” debuted seven years ago, it was obvious that the purpose was to push the LGBT agenda and gain wider acceptance of homosexuality. Now they have introduced a transgender child actor who is only 8 years old. I do not…
Kerby Anderson It is puzzling to hear people say that Christians are intolerant when often it is the people making those statements who demonstrate their intolerance. A case in point would be a recent free speech symposium at the University of Missouri. Sally Kohn, a highly visible liberal commentator and LGBT activist, argued that free speech advocates were afraid of multiculturalism and trying to stifle diversity. “If they feel like they can no longer speak against positive social change, good,”…
Kerby Anderson Civilizations that abandon God as a foundation of their society will ultimately fall into decay and decadence. They must root their rights and liberty on the bedrock of faith in God or else anarchy and nihilism are the result. Those are the powerful conclusions of the new documentary film, Torchbearer. In it, Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson stands like an Old Testament prophet and challenges the modern, post-Christian worldview prevalent in our secular culture. He takes us through history…
Penna Dexter Walt Heyer is a former transgender who lived as a woman for eight years. He took hormones and had surgery. After returning to being a man, he wrote, “I wish the guy who approved me for gender surgery had told me about the risks.” He says medical professionals are too quick to prescribe hormone therapy and “irreversible reassignment surgery” to individuals who are confused about their gender. Instead, he says, these professionals should be looking at the underlying…
Kerby Anderson An LGBT group known as Campus Pride has published a list of more than 100 Christian colleges and universities that are deemed dangerous because they don’t affirm the homosexual lifestyle. They hope that corporations will use this “Shame List” to blacklist graduates from these Christian institutions. Rod Dreher is concerned that this is exactly what will happen. Companies and corporations that take pride in being inclusive and diverse may decide to avoid recruiting on these campuses and might…
Kerby Anderson Over the last two decades, Christian Smith has helped us understand what is the in the heads and hearts of young people. He is the coauthor of such books at Soul Searching, Souls in Transition, and Lost in Transition. In his books, he coined the now famous term “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.” The term came up in a discussion on my radio program with Kara Powell about her book, Growing Young. She and her coauthors have identified a number…
Kerby Anderson Colorado officials have found examples of what they call “very serious” voter fraud. What they found is that dead people have been voting in recent elections. One example they cited is of an El Paso County woman who died in 2009 but had ballots cast in her name in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Apparently it is not difficult for someone to vote in place of a dead person. The El Paso County officials found 78 deceased people…
Kerby Anderson Muslim immigrants and “visitors” are responsible for killing more Americans on American soil than the combined militaries of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. That statistic from David French helps put in context the debate we should be having about radical Islam. Although Muslims in America make up a small fraction of the American population, a few within their religion are responsible for more terror deaths than any other group. David French reminds us that whenever any politician suggests…
Kerby Anderson Economic inequality is one of the themes that have run through the presidential debates and congressional races. Edward Conard has been challenging many of the myths surrounding this debate. That is why I had him on my radio program to talk about his new book, The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class. Four years ago, he wrote the controversial bestseller, Unintended Consequences, which attempted to set the record straight on the 2008 financial crisis….