Read the whole thing, but if you want a little help getting to the good parts, feel free to use my highlights. The basic thesis is this: If you look at the post-1960s trend data—whether it’s on family structure and social capital, fertility and marriage rates,...
Culture
Question Authority?
In our contemporary society, it is almost automatically assumed, primarily under Immanuel Kant's influence, that the mature adult must attain moral autonomy and question critically every directive that authority makes. When I was much younger, I think I would have...
Epistemological Naïveté and Hubris
Tanya M. Luhrmann is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times with a Ph.D. from Cambridge and a professorship in anthropology at Stanford. She's no intellectual slouch. And she's focused some of her writing on the particular sub-species of homo sapiens in...
Discrimination
I saw this sidebar at The Atlantic not too long ago. Notice the first item: The article itself doesn't use the word "discriminate," and I have no idea who wrote the headline. But I do think it's interesting that the article itself discriminates against many groups...
The Most Important Thing You’ll Read Today Beyond Holy Writ
I may be at risk of becoming the boy who cried "Read This," but this point from Mark Bauerlein about debating homosexuality in the public square is so, so important: Religious conservatives demand religious liberty, while liberals, progressives, and libertarians...
If Humans Were Really Just Robots
Skeptical humanist writer Kurt Vonnegut wrote an experimental novel, Breakfast of Champions, in which he told one of his characters, Dwayne Hoover, that “everybody on Earth was a robot, with one exception—Dwayne Hoover.” When Dwayne finds out that he lives in a...
New Kevin DeYoung Book
Kevin DeYoung, What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015), 158 pp. Here's a PDF sample, and here’s a study guide. DeYoung is using his gifts to serve the church; as I've said before, he's a gifted popularizer. But that doesn't...
A Pair of Absolute Must-Read New York Times Opinion Columns on Homosexuality
1. Bruni This is what a lot of people genuinely think about the conservative Christian view of homosexuality. You need to know what they're saying. Here's a tiny, chilling excerpt: Our debate about religious freedom should include a conversation about freeing...
An Excellent and Important Point by Russell Moore
I find this point by Russell Moore to be very helpful and insightful: Many of those leading the discussion of religious freedom have little or no understanding of what motivates religious people. This shows up in almost all of these conversations, whether over the...
Wise Observation from Ken Myers
C.S. Lewis said one of the distinctive aspects of the modern mind is the assumption that newer things are always better. We've become preoccupied with things we don't have, rather than with the nurturing and stewarding of things we do have. My favorite example of this...
Worldview and Sexuality: Ideas Have Consequences
View image | gettyimages.com Jennifer Roback Morse, in an excellent article on the Sexual Revolution: The modern world is living out the Revolutionary view of sexuality and of the cosmos. We act as if we believe that we are alone in a meaningless and indifferent...
A Real-Life Heather on Her Two Mommies
An important insight from a real-life Heather with two mommies, who writes with empathy and respect for her mother, but who grew up needing a dad: Gay marriage doesn’t just redefine marriage, but also parenting. It promotes and normalizes a family structure that...