Trey Dimsdale serves as counsel for First Liberty Institute (FLI) and executive director of the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, an FLI initiative focused on education and cultural advocacy for freedom.
Posts by Trey Dimsdale
September 18, 2024
In the introduction to
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis uses the image of a hall leading to various rooms to explain the relationship of the various Christian communions and traditions with one another and with the fundamental and indispensable commitments that define the contours of Christianity.
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August 29, 2024
The term “Greenhouse effect” is primarily used by the environmentalist movement as an explanation for global warming, but in 1992 Judge Laurence Silberman appropriated the term and in a clever play on words linked it to Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court at the
New York Times for more than 40 years.
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August 21, 2024
Recently, I toured a notable American cathedral that, as a parish, had been founded by pre–Revolutionary War French immigrants. When our group came to a panel that included images of four martyrs who had evangelized different European peoples, our docent told us the story of St.
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July 31, 2024
According to several headlines, the Supreme Court has “criminalized homelessness” in a decision handed down in the last days of the Spring 2024 term. Others go even further. Not only has homelessness been criminalized, but poverty, too, apparently.
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July 10, 2024
Every year, millions of American families with college students complete a government form known as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The application is administered by the U.S.
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June 13, 2024
Liz Truss’ tenure as the United Kingdom’s prime minister will almost certainly be reduced to two footnotes. First, she was invited to form a government by Queen Elizabeth II during Her Late Majesty’s last public engagement.
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June 06, 2024
On April Fool’s Day, I saw headlines that Richard Dawkins, the famed British atheist and evolutionary biologist, had claimed to be a “cultural Christian.” I assumed the headlines were clickbait consistent with the day’s theme.
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May 21, 2024
My news feed early last month included updates on an ongoing drama involving two animals, both from endangered species. Zookeepers in Fort Worth and in Cleveland breathed a sigh of relief when Jameela, a western lowland gorilla born at the Fort Worth Zoo that had been abandoned by her mother, was accepted by Freddy, a Cleveland gorilla who has successfully fostered orphaned and abandoned gorillas before.
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May 07, 2024
Zack Fontenot was a menace. In fact, had we both been alive in 1904, he is the
last person I would have wanted anywhere near my merry-go-round because he had a history of setting them on fire.
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March 05, 2024
“Was the richest person in the world overpaid?” asked Delaware chancellor Kathaleen Saint Jude McCormick, the judge who decided he was, and then invalidated Elon Musk’s $56 billion performance-based compensation package from Tesla.
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