Wedding Bells at Fordham
Here’s a small thing, but a sign of the times: it’s the same-sex wedding announcement for the head of Fordham University’s theology department. A reader who teaches at a different Catholic university,...
View ArticleA Benedict Option Prophet
Very strong words from the Orthodox priest Father Josiah Trenham, in reaction to Obergefell. The friend and reader who sent me this says “he’s basically advocating for the Benedict Option”. Read on: We...
View ArticleKim Davis to SCOTUS: ‘Drop Dead’
Kim Davis, the elected Kentucky county clerk, is still refusing to grant gays marriage licenses, despite being ordered to by the US Supreme Court. She says she’s acting under “God’s authority,” and has...
View ArticleThe Complicated Kim Davis Case
I have some questions for both sides in the case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk refusing to issue marriage licenses because licensing same-sex couples would violate her religious beliefs. For...
View ArticleKim Davis: Political Prisoner? Culture-War Martyr?
Well, now they’re making a martyr. Before we get to that, let’s note that Nicholas Frankovich is recalling when the pro-gay side had it’s law-defying local officials. Among them: In 2004, Mayor Gavin...
View ArticleWhat Hill Do We Die On, Then?
I have said these past couple of days that as gay rights and the ideology at its heart continues to conquer our culture, I expect us small-o orthodox Christians to have to take a hard, sacrificial...
View ArticleSCOTUS, Lincoln, Huckabee
This morning on This Week, George Stephanopoulos cited this blog in questioning Mike Huckabee on the Kim Davis situation. Watch here: ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos Huckabee said that Your...
View ArticleA Religious Test for Public Office
We have been talking in this space for the past few days about religious liberty fights worth committing to. This Oregon case is a big one: Marion County Judge Vance Day is being investigated by a...
View ArticleGuns: Same Planet, Different Worlds
David Roberts of Vox explains at length why gun-rights conservatives are mentally challenged by nature, why their beliefs on guns are a result of their insanity, and why only “overwhelming political...
View ArticleEducating for a Dark Age
In conversation, Yale professor David Gelernter and Bill Kristol talk about how the past two generations in American life have focused on disdaining Western culture. Gelernter says: And during this...
View Article‘Open’ Gay Marriages
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? A gay writer named Nico Lang takes to HuffPo The Daily Beast to urge married gay couples to come out with the fact that they are not monogamous. Excerpts: Over the...
View ArticleVote Like Jesus Would, Sez Ted
In church news: Cruz’s stump speech is by far the most religious one of all the Republican candidates, in which he tells his supporters to pray “each and every day” until the November election. At a...
View ArticleAs The Worm Turns
.@roddreher The sexual revisionists are starting earlier than this! In the lib in my conservative, rural locale: https://t.co/iJXOmEFibT — Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) February 2, 2016 The...
View ArticleThe Winnowing Of Christianity
Last night I rode with a traditionalist Catholic friend down to New Orleans to attend a Requiem mass featuring the music of Gabriel Fauré. It was deeply moving, and ravishingly beautiful. I’ve loved...
View ArticleThe Fruits Of Same-Sex Marriage
Australia is about to have a plebiscite over whether or not to have same-sex marriage. Writing in the Spectator‘s Australian edition, David Sergeant asks readers to consider what has happened in...
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