“Prepare your minds for action” is the admonition of 1 Peter 1:13. That’s proactive apologetics. In this category I want to help you apply a biblical worldview.
In late 2020, a panel of Harvard intellectuals decided that not all people who give birth are women. Or, at least, not all claim to be women. On Twitter these “experts” referred to women as “birthing people” and promoted “maternal justice” saying, “Globally, ethnic minority pregnant and birthing people suffer worse outcomes and experiences during and after pregnancy and childbirth.” Not surprisingly, Twitter users mocked the panel. But rather than admit the absurdity of referring…
With Biden nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson likely to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, it’s a good time to revisit the exchange that both defined her confirmation hearings and gave us a glimpse of what our future holds now that we have abandoned any sense of objective truth. On March 22, Sen. Marsha Blackburn questioned Jackson about gender issues. In light of current cultural conversations, that line of questioning should be expected. Issues related to…
Sixty years ago, Spider-Man was born. And this year’s film Spider-Man: No Way Home reinforced the reputation of the teenage web-slinger as one of the most successful comic book characters of all time and one of Marvel’s most popular heroes. No Way Home is a multi-million dollar blockbuster, an essential boost to an entertainment industry scrambling to recover from its Covid woes. The appeal of Spider-Man is exactly what Stan Lee and Steve Ditko intended…
Forty-nine years ago this week, SCOTUS decided a case called Roe v. Wade. And America hasn’t been the same since. But things might be changing again. Currently, the Court seems to favor upholding a Mississippi law, rambling through the courts since 2018, that disallows abortion after 15 weeks except in a couple of extreme cases. A similar law is proposed in Florida. Pro-abortion activists fear that Roe v. Wade is in jeopardy and may be…
Whenever Christians object to certain books, the media seize on it, portraying it as the demise of civilization. Especially if that means we prefer that those books not be available to kids in school. Does that mean Christians are anti-intellectual bigots? Secularists certainly think so. And some of those secularists are teaching our kids. Krista Tyler, an instructional technology specialist at a Middle School in the Leander District near Round Rock, Texas, wrote a poem…
Morrill and Karen Worcester own a wreath company in Maine, and in 1992 they ended the year with a surplus of wreaths. That sparked an idea. Why not use the wreaths to honor our nation’s veterans? With help from their Senator, they arranged for the wreaths to be placed on graves in one of the older areas of Arlington National Cemetery. Other organizations and individuals stepped up to help, and the practice continued quietly until…
September 28, Vice-President Kamala Harris spoke at George Mason University to commemorate National Voter Registration Day. Following her talk she took questions from the audience. That’s when a female student grumbled about the money the U.S. is providing to Israel and Saudi Arabia. “I see that over the summer there have been, like, protests and demonstrations in astronomical numbers” about the Palestinian cause, the student said. She noted that “just a few days ago there…
Major American businesses are scrambling to prove how woke and virtuous they are. The simplest way to do that is to bow to the whims of Critical Race Theory. So, in August, Bank of America, Lowe’s Home Improvement, and Truist Financial sponsored a United Way “Racial Equity 21-Day Challenge.” The “challenge” claims that America is systemically and institutionally racist and encourages participants to get “woke at work” while urging white people to “cede power to…
Summer is winding down, and students are returning to college. Whether they learn while seated, while remote, or while masked or unmasked will largely hinge on how your institution is waging the war against Covid. But either way, colleges will be back in action. But another war continues to rage in our colleges. It’s the war against objective truth. Higher education is soaked in worldviews and values that challenge, ignore, or overtly attack a…
Five years ago, for most of us, Critical Race Theory (CRT) was barely a blip on our radar. But now it dominates our cultural conversation, pushed to the forefront by activists who claim to advocate racial justice, diversity, and economic equality. Now the tentacles of CRT are stretching into public education. CRT advocates are adding it to curricula for lower grades, but in New York, Nevada, Virginia and other school systems, parents are pushing back,…