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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,...

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A 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...

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Kim 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...

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The 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...

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Kim 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...

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What 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...

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SCOTUS, 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...

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A 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...

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Guns: 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...

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Educating 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...

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‘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...

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Vote 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...

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As 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...

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The 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...

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The 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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