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Jun 22 2022
Opinion
The Fall of the Wall around Religious Education
If the past two years have taught us anything as a society, it is that American schoolchildren should not be held hostage by a public-education monopoly that is unable to keep schools open, safe, competent, or free of indoctrination in left-wing fads and anti-American lies. Many of the parents voting with their feet to take their children out of public schools have an additional urgent
National Review (News)Feb 01 2021
Analysis
Devout Catholic? The Media vs. Biden’s Real Record
President Biden is a “devout Catholic,” the liberal media say. But there’s consternation among some U.S. Catholic leaders about how Biden’s policies directly contradict Church teachings. As columnist Cal Thomas asked elsewhere on this site, “How can one be devout about one’s faith and not comport with Scripture and the teachings of the Catholic Church?”
First, the media sales pitch. You
NewsBustersDec 25 2021
Opinion
The promise of Christmas includes work still to be done
Amid ever-rising coronavirus cases, and a bitter and corrosive political climate, what better time for the inspiring Christmas message of the Most Rev. Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church? “The story of a baby born is the story of beauty, a story of hope,” he wrote, “whereas the Jewish tradition says every child who is born is a reminder that God is not finished with the
Washington PostJan 17 2022
News
On MLK Day, Biden says Americans must commit to King’s work
Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., delivering jobs and justice and protecting “the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday.
Martin Luther King Day is a moment when a mirror is held up to America, the president said in a video address.
“It’s time for every elected official in America to
Associated PressAug 24 2020
Analysis
Can the Religious Left Flip the Bible Belt?
ATLANTA—In late July, Democratic political giants filed into the towering sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church to mourn the death of an era, and to declare a new one to come. This is the church where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, and where Representative John Lewis, the civil-rights icon, was now being laid to rest. Lewis’s pastor, Raphael Warnock, stood before the congregation in a
The AtlanticMar 15 2022
Opinion
It’s Time to Dump Daylight Saving
Article originally published March 12, 2021: It’s that time of year when we “spring ahead” and switch to daylight saving time (DST). There is a good chance that this annual adjustment of the clock will damage not only your wallet but your health, too.
Before the adoption of standard measures of time, churches, city halls, and trains kept solar time. Every city, depending on its location
National Review (News)Jul 15 2021
News
Massive trust gap splits America
Americans' trust in all big institutions has cratered, but look at the massive gap in who we do trust.
By the numbers: New Gallup polling finds a 45-point split in trust of police — 76% of Republicans vs. 31% of Democrats. Confidence in the church or organized religion — twice as many Rs as Ds, 51% to 26%.
So who do Democrats trust instead?
With President Biden in the
AxiosJul 11 2020
News
Religious liberty’s big week at the Supreme Court
Last week, in one of the Supreme Court’s major rulings about the meaning of religious freedom and the separation of church and state, Justice Samuel Alito wrote a passionate account of the ugly anti-Catholic animus that once animated the country’s education policies.
Christian Science MonitorSep 18 2019
News
Isra Hirsi Is 16, Unbothered, and Saving the Planet
outside First Universalist Church in Minneapolis, a Black Lives Matter poster hangs, wilted in the sun, above a crowd of Minnesotans waiting eagerly to enter. The group is an unusual mashup: mostly teenagers and those who would qualify for the senior special at IHOP, both cohorts outfitted in political pins, caps, and T-shirts. As I sit on the steps of the church, a man with salt-white hair
ViceJun 09 2021
News
Police Cleared Lafayette Park to Install Fencing, Not for Trump Photo-Op, IG Report Concludes
Federal officers cleared Black Lives Matter demonstrators from Lafayette Park near the White House in June 2020 in order to install fencing, not to make way for a photo-op for President Trump, the Inspector General for the Department of the Interior said on Wednesday.
Trump critics have alleged that the former president ordered the clearing of the area in order to pose for a photograph
National Review (News)