Why does the world hate the Jews? Dennis Prager relates Hitler’s answer to this question. “We are fighting,” he said, “against the most ancient curse that humanity has brought upon itself. Against the so-called Ten Commandments, against them we are fighting.” His life’s mission, he said, was to destroy “the
Last week we published The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Jordan Peterson. We subsequently heard from a reader, Caitlin Basset, who wrote to thank Darrow for his post. She mentioned her own article on the same subject, published at The Stream. Hers is a very worthy companion post to ours, and we
Three questions interweave in ways that may not be immediately evident: they all relate to the moral universe. Why are the Jews God’s chosen people? Why are some nations rich and others poor? Why have Jews been so persecuted throughout history? I have pondered these questions much of my adult
The events of January 6, in Washington DC, with the storming of the US Capitol, during the debate over certification of the Electoral College votes, stunned the nation and the world. The nation’s capital city became a fortress for the inauguration of President Joe Biden, including aggressive fencing and other
Many fine teachers are committed to the flourishing of children. Thirty-seven percent of public school teachers are evangelical Christians[1] who chose their vocation to engage with a nation’s most important resource. This is a sure sign of Christians’ care for children. Fifty-eight percent of educators, and sixty-four percent of all
This blog series comes in the context of a perfect storm, that is, the juxtaposition of two major phenomena coinciding in our world. The first phenomenon is the untimely arrival—it would be untimely at any moment of history—of the Coronavirus which, in a few months, has affected 213 countries, infecting
In an increasingly polarized America, religious liberty is eroding. Surely most observers of American society would agree that we are becoming more polarized. We are a nation divided. In fact, we are actually two very different nations sharing one geography, two nations enlivened by two very different moral and metaphysical
Faith as taught in the Bible is not the same as we often think of it today. Both the Old and New Testament assume God exists and He made an orderly creation. That creation order screams to the universe, to all humanity, the existence of God. We see this, for
Racism is alive in America. When it rears its ugly head it needs to be challenged, where it has harmed people we need to walk beside them, they need to know our compassion. There are racist whites, Asians and blacks. Some whites and Asians are racist toward blacks. Some blacks
Modern racism is rooted in the physical: skin color and facial features. In postmodernism, race is rooted in ideology, i.e. “whiteness.” The Smithsonian National Museum of African History and Culture–NMAAHC–has an online teaching tool based on Critical Race Theory, titled “Talking About Race” which says, “Whiteness and white racialized identity
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