Society & Culture

A High Court judge has ruled that the word ‘unborn’ in the Irish Constitution means an “unborn child” with rights beyond the right to life which “must be taken seriously” by the State.

Carl Trueman: “[I]f entertainment is the very essence of our social existence today, then we are in a sense not faced with addressing meaninglessness … The church is not combating meaninglessness so much as offering an alternative meaning in a competitive marketplace. And the idioms of plausibility in that marketplace are themselves part of the problem.”

Martyred Priest’s Last Words to Jihadists: ‘Be Gone, Satan!’

We must oppose bills like SB 1146 that narrow the conception of what religious activity is and is not. If we don’t, the church itself will fall prey to this mentality that cordons off religion from the “other” stuff of life. … Christian higher education needs boundaries in order to perform its preservative function. Boundaries don’t mean closed borders or militarized walls.

“Every single person who supported the impeachment of Bill Clinton because ‘character matters’ … and is now supporting Donald Trump in spite of his despicable, ungodly, immoral and amoral character, owes the former president and likely future first husband an apology.” NONE of the Above: An Examination of Our Election Options

“Two-thirds of Americans (64%) say they had at least three conversations about politics in the last month… . By contrast, fewer than half (44%) had three or more spiritual conversations in the same time frame.” CT

As a professor who has taught Christian ethics for 39 years, I think their analysis is incorrect. Now that Trump has won the GOP nomination, I think voting for Trump is a morally good choice.

“Trump only leads Clinton by four percentage points among regular churchgoers (49% vs. 45%), a “notable shift” according to the Pew Research Center. By comparison, Mitt Romney’s 15-point margin over Barack Obama in 2012 (55% vs. 40%) was much more indicative of the usual spread between Republican and Democrat candidates among weekly worshipers.”

“The effective interest rate on payday loans is staggering—the interest rate for a $50 loan that requires the debtor to pay $70 in a month is 40 percent, which translates to 480 percent per year.” WORLD