The Problem with ‘Social Justice’
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“…social justice is nonsense. Now, when I say ‘nonsense,’ I mean nonsensical, as in lacking interior logic and definitional rigor.” - Jonah Goldberg
The New Supreme Court May Be on the Verge of Its First Important Abortion Ruling
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“Within two short days, we may learn a great deal about Justice Kavanaugh’s approach to abortion rights and about the willingness of the Court to roll back recent, abortion-friendly jurisprudence.” - National Review
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Born-alive bill blocked in Senate
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An objecting Democrat prevented Sen. Ben Sasse’s unanimous consent effort Monday night. But “Sasse’s effort to gain passage of his bill is not dead. He also has initiated the process to bring his bill to the Senate floor for a roll-call vote.” - BPNews
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"Many of the more progressive nations are not merely overlooking or ignoring their Judeo-Christian heritage, but actively destroying it."
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“We have always assumed that when we give money to churches and ministries we will receive a tax receipt, but those days may soon be over for organizations that will not bow before one of society’s sacred cows.” - On Living in a Post-Christian Context
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Explainer: What You Should Know About the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
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“The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (hereafter Born-Alive Act) is a bill, first submitted in 2017 and recently reintroduced by several Republican senators, that would protect infants born after a botched abortion.” - TGC
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We’re All Fundamentalists Now
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“The emerging Millennial interest in ‘justice’ creates a fascinating dynamic for close observers of American culture. Moral relativism, the deconstruction of all objective-truth claims, was sold as the inevitable future just a generation ago. Not only has relativism failed to conquer our cultural landscape.
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History Channel's "Jesus: His Life" Airs March 25
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“The show is going to be a combination of scripted television interspersed with interviews from major scholars and members of Christianity.
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The Down Syndrome Community Is Being Targeted For Death Before They Are Even Born
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“The weighted mean termination rate was 67% (range: 61%-93%) among seven population-based studies, 85% (range: 60%-90%) among nine hospital-based studies, and 50% (range: 0%-100%) among eight anomaly-based studies.” - Daily Wire
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What Should Christians Think About Abortion? (Part 1)
This article is adapted from a sermon, of the same title, I preached on 20 January 2019. The audio and video are here.
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"[W]e—especially cannabis advocates and those in the elite media who have for too long credulously accepted their claims—need to come to terms with the truth about the science on marijuana."
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“The first four states to legalize marijuana for recreational use were Colorado and Washington in 2014 and Alaska and Oregon in 2015. ….Last year, they had almost 620 murders and 38,000 aggravated assaults—an increase of 37 percent for murders and 25 percent for aggravated assaults, far greater than the national increase.” - Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
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