Spirit & Life Blog
Are politicians inherently untrustworthy? Certainly, a lot of people think so, and not without reason. After all, at least in a democracy everything a politician says or does has to be measured against the question of whether doing or saying that thing will help his chances of election or re-election. One unfortunate consequence of this…
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A few weeks ago, I told you about a Substack publication called “Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT).” The publication provides a place for parents with children who are struggling with gender dysphoria to describe their often-horrific experiences. One of the most disturbing (but, by this point unsurprising) themes of the posts, is how…
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In the year 2000, the United States’ Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved two chemical abortion drugs. The pair of drugs – mifepristone and misoprostol – are sometimes referred to as RU-486. Used in tandem, they reliably kill a preborn child: first, by starving the developing preborn child and causing it to detach from its mother’s…
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Khristós anésti! – Alithós anésti! Christus surréxit! – Surréxit vere! Christ is risen! Indeed, He is risen! These words, given above in Greek, Latin, and English, are the traditional Easter greeting and response, exchanged for centuries by Christians all around the world. Within these few words we find succinctly expressed the central mystery and message…
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Last Monday, a 28-year-old woman entered a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, and proceeded to shoot and kill three nine-year-old children and three adults, including a substitute teacher, a custodian, and the head of the school. In the hours following the shooting, media reports gave strangely conflicting accounts of the gender of the shooter, who…
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“[T]he young need to be helped to accept their own body as it was created, for thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation… An appreciation of our body as male or female is also necessary for our own self-awareness in…
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“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.” ― St. Teresa of Calcutta Recently two authors at the publication The Wire set out to answer the question, “What happens when abortion is banned?” Given that Nita Bhalla and Anastasia Moloney are virulently…
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After decades in which the myth of overpopulation exerted a stranglehold on the popular imagination, due to its ubiquity in the mainstream media, governments, and non-governmental organizations, a different perspective is finally starting to get a hearing. In recent months, a growing number of articles in major newspapers have drawn attention to the fact that…
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“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.” ― Philippians 4:8 This article is not about social media. But I’m going to begin by talking about social media, because doing so might help us understand…
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Blow the trumpet in Zion! Proclaim a fast, call an assembly. Gather the people, notify the congregation. Assemble the elders; gather the children and the infants at the breast.… Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Spare, O Lord, your people.” ― Joel 2:15-27 The demise of Roe v. Wade has…
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