Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Importance of Jackie Robinson
In the history of the modern American civil rights movement, three iconic moments are typically cited. May…
We Should All Be Grateful for Gorsuch
Liberals who are dismayed by the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch should cheer up. Things…
Five Lessons from Francis de Sales
Given the growing challenges now facing Christians, a valuable source to turn to, for wisdom and strength,…
Rivers Declared to Be “Persons”
We live in truly surreal times. In an age when all human beings still do not have…
God’s Image, Man’s Crimes
Yesterday I discussed parts of Shane Claiborne’s Biblical arguments in Executing Grace in favor of abolishing the…
Death Penalties and the Divine
In Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us, Shane Claiborne argues…
Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law
In The Trouble with Principle, Stanley Fish recites an observation that John Milton included in his Areopagitica:…
The Benedict Option and the Way of Exchange
Surely there has never been a richer and more deeply faithful model of Christian faith and practice…
Persuasive Disciples, Not Anarchic Disrupters
We are living through a dangerous moment in our national life, of an intensity and potential for…
How Many Foreigners Is an American Worth?
How do, or how should, Christian Americans answer the question of the moment: “Does the welfare of…
The Bishop and the Nazis
Count Clemens August von Galen, a member of an old aristocratic family, was consecrated Bishop of Münster…
“Speciesism” Opens the Door to Bigotry
Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer popularized “speciesism,” a derogatory term for the belief that it is acceptable to…
Our Faint-Hearted Nationalists
If left-wing cosmopolitanism wins, it will be because our conservative nationalists were insufficiently nationalist. It will be…
Dear Johannes Cochlaeus: Enough Already
Dear Johannes Cochlaeus, You always were a clever one, but this time you’ve gone too far. You…
Evangelicals in Exile
When I was an evangelical convert in high school in the 1990s, the Religious Right was rallying—not…
