Society & Culture

“Monday is the 90th anniversary of a day significant both in the rise of America’s culture war and the fall of American journalism.” WORLD

Doug Wilson: One of our responsibilities in these troubled times is to look at the cultural chess board while taking care to think three moves ahead. We need to look at our current conflicts in the light of the year of our Lord 2022. Those who do not anticipate the future are doomed to go through it, as Santayana didn’t quite say.

Southern Baptist leaders in two states urged support for a federal law aimed at protecting Americans who oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds

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“A healthy journalism is vital to a free society. If the public doesn’t trust the news they are getting; if they believe the institution focuses too much on trivialities and distractions instead of consequential things, if they don’t believe reporters are being truthful, then not only is the profession’s credibility damaged, the country’s stability is, too.

“In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision on marriage, which effectively codifies Bible believers as bigots, the attack on conservative Christian values has reached fever pitch.”

Doug Wilson: “Dear Pastor, you now have a limited number of options before you, and they all involve hills … If you know that you will fight, but only when it become absolutely necessary, then they will pick the terrain and you will be found defending Stupid Hill. Or you can resist now, and you select the terrain, and you can defend Shrewd Hill. Or you can go hide in those hills.”

James White’s response to Vines’ questions to folks who question so-called “gay Christianity:” Matthew Vines has posted a series of forty questions, found here. I have written up a fairly brief response. I hope it is helpful.

This is an interesting, secular take on politics and the pulpit in American life from Foreign Affairs: Exactly how does religion operate in U.S. politics? What came before and after the mid-twentieth-century period? And what’s likely to happen next in American religious politics?

Fox News anchor: I didn’t know it was criminal to be a Christian