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Dennis Prager’s Troubling Defense of Pornography | Carl R. Trueman

If you see pornography as morally neutral and consider its moral value to be found in the way it is used rather than in the acts it involves, you are complicit in the desecration of the human form and in the erasure of what it means to be human.

by Carl R. Trueman | Many aspects of Prager’s comment are disturbing, not least his failure to address the dark nature of the pornography industry itself. But it is also instructive, because it exposes the superficiality of some of what passes for conservative thought today. Prager’s statement reveals that he lacks a real grasp of what is...

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Mutilating Our Bodies

While adults who regret their sex changes may themselves tend to libertarianism, their stories testify to a hidden horror: vulnerable, disturbed individuals of all ages hastily ushered into procedures that are nothing short of medical malpractice. Justice demands a reckoning in the form of penalties and strictures.

by Bethel McGrew | There are many memorable moments in Matt Walsh’s provocative new documentary What is a Woman? But perhaps the most chilling is when Walsh sits down with Scott (Kellie) Newgent, a biological woman who underwent sex-change surgery at age forty-two. Today, Newgent is fiercely outspoken about her transition regret...

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How Should Christians Respond to the Transgender Phenomenon?

In June, Christianity Today published an article by Mark Yarhouse, a professor of psychology at . . . .

by Robert A. J. Gagnon | In June, Christianity Today published an article by Mark Yarhouse, a professor of psychology at Regent University in Virginia, on “gender dysphoria.” Gender dysphoria is the APA’s current...

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The Myth of the Modern Self | Carl R. Trueman

Once force and intimidation are necessary, the myth is surely becoming a lie, something that is known to be untrue but to which loyalty is demanded by our cultural powerbrokers anyway.

by Carl R. Trueman | What is true in the groves of academe is even more powerfully true in our modern, technologized world. Western society is built on the myth that individuals are in charge of their identities. And when we are reminded that that is not the case, we tend to become rather angry...

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SCOTUS Rules for Religious Schools | Charles L. Glenn

We welcome the Supreme Court's explicit recognition that faith-based schools that retain a strong distinctive mission must not be punished for it.

by Charles L. Glenn | We welcome the Supreme Court’s explicit recognition that faith-based schools that retain a strong distinctive mission must not be punished for it. This recognition should, in turn, renew the commitment of those working in or supporting a school with a religious mission to ensure that the mission is evident in every aspect of the school’s...

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Identity Politics, Opium of the People | Carl R. Trueman

Identity politics witnesses to the social disconnection that results from the metaphysical void at the heart of modern Western society.

by Carl R. Trueman | I dentity politics is the new religion of the United States. Some will dissent from this claim. There are those who simply don’t want to see how deep-seated the factionalism of the public square now is. And there are those who have a vested interest in minimizing the righteous religiosity of what is commonly...

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Is the Catholic Church a Cage? | Carl R. Trueman

by Carl E. Trueman | Is the Catholic Church a cage? The language of a recent New York Times article on the number of gay men in the Roman Catholic priesthood certainly implies that it is. The precise quotation comes from Father Bob Bussen...

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Undying Love | J. Todd Billings

by J. Todd Billings | The cry of lament in Psalm 102 exposed a raw wound: “My days pass away like smoke and my bones burn like a furnace.” I had been diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer, which had already burned away bone from inside my skull...