With over 24 books to her credit, renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Vaughn is out with her second volume on the life and work of Elisabeth Elliot, the noted Christian author, speaker, and philosopher who died in 2015 after a 10-year struggle with dementia. Continue Reading...
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September 07, 2023
Baseball at the Abyss
On June 16, some 2,000 people gathered outside Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium to protest the team’s having chosen to honor, on the field before that night’s game, a group whose core mission and purpose is the open mockery and parody of Catholicism. Continue Reading...
September 06, 2023
Student Loans and the Sin of Usury
A new school year has just begun, and students and their parents are faced once again with the high cost of higher education.
The Supreme Court ruled President Biden’s executive order on student loan forgiveness unconstitutional. Continue Reading...
September 06, 2023
What Does the Bible Really Teach?
Protestants classically believe in sola scriptura, but they also know that some Protestants have conjured exotic beliefs based on appeals to the Bible alone. At a Baptist church where I was once a leader, the pastor and I were working to explain why a person who denied the Trinity could not be a member. Continue Reading...
September 05, 2023
When the Church Becomes the State
Until a few years ago, I was not even familiar with the term “integralism,” which refers to the Catholic political doctrine that calls for the subordination of the state to the church. Continue Reading...
September 01, 2023
Three Years After Chinese Communist Crackdown, Hong Kong Continues to Suffer
At the end of August, the Hong Kong government charged a Cantonese language group with “threatening national security.” The latter had posted online an essay, cast in the form of fiction, that emphasized the city’s loss of liberty. Continue Reading...
August 31, 2023
Hope and Opportunity for Formerly Incarcerated Women
Each year, over 80,000 women are released from state prisons. Within five years, around half of these women are predicted to return. Most of them experienced childhoods sabotaged by violence, sexual abuse, trauma, and broken families. Continue Reading...
August 30, 2023
“Rich Men North of Richmond” Is Whatever You Want It to Be
A song addressing such salient political issues as currency debasement, the displacement of miners in our green economy, and the Fudge Rounds Question achieved a feat Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” and Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers” could not. Continue Reading...
August 29, 2023
Negotiating with a Domestic Extremist
Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War by Peachy Keenan—a pseudonym used by a seriously Catholic humorist deep in the bowels of blue California—is a heated polemic about how feminism has failed women and how they can take back their lives and femininity from a twisted culture. Continue Reading...
August 25, 2023
The Countess of Huntingdon: Challenging the Established Church
Among the central figures of the British evangelical revival that we have been revisiting is Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, (1707–1791). She was a source of finance and a steadying influence, and through her aristocratic connections Selina provided opportunities for the preaching of the gospel in the upper echelons of society. Continue Reading...