The ongoing murderous repression of protesters in Iran is symptomatic of a long-term and deeper cruelty on the part of the regime: the attempt to eradicate freedom of conscience.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is stepping back into the public sphere to lecture us about empathy, writing in an op-ed for The Atlantic. 

Americans were told a lie. Gay people just wanted wanted equal treatment...But instead of asking for tolerance, it demanded celebration. Instead of privacy, it demanded visibility everywhere. Instead of equality, it demanded special status, constant affirmation, and eventually submission.
 

One of the major accomplishments of the Trump administration has been impressing on Europeans the need to provide for their own defense. Trump has made it clear that the U.S. is no longer willing to...

...A look at the evidence shows Obama’s deep involvement in both protecting Clinton and advancing the conspiracy theory that Trump conspired with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Minnesota’s defiance of federal immigration law echoes pre–Fort Sumter nullification, forcing Trump to choose between enforcement and letting blue states slide toward open rebellion.

...For the moment, we can breathe easy because missiles are not flying all over the Middle East.  But military preparations for a final showdown with Iran are continuing just in case last ditch peace talks fail.

I have been asked to address this question--Is the unrest spreading across the country a sign that the U.S. is heading toward another civil war? It is a serious question and deserves a sober answer.

The SBC may be shifting back toward a more conservative position on immigration, but it has a lot of baggage to overcome. Southern Baptists have steadily moved left on immigration in the last 20 years...

...86% of U.S. adults were raised in a religion. Among that group, 64% still identify with the same faith, 11% another religion, and 23% no religion. But not all religious groups have the same retention rates.

What was once a shared commitment to free speech and open expression is now fracturing as the European Union aggressively enforces its censorship laws not just for its own citizens but for Americans.

President Donald Trump's strategic decision to reorder our relationship with Europe may be startling Old World diplomats, but that is because they do not know their own history.

At an emergency summit of European Union leaders in Brussels, the building blocks of a new continental order were quietly taking shape. Europe is actively pursuing the foundation of a "super Europe"...

...Americans must stand up to those who wish to disrupt, harm, or obstruct peaceful worship in America. Every single “activist” in that church needs to be federally prosecuted to the fullest extent.

For anyone who has actually examined the evidence, MH370 is not especially mysterious.

It is a popular fallacy that freedom of the press enshrined in the First Amendment is absolute. It is not and never has been. The recent arrest of Don Lemon on federal criminal charges will test that fact.

Before the modern hospice movement, dying had become institutionalized, with most deaths occurring in sterile hospital rooms rather than in one’s own bed…. But the hospice movement is in serious trouble.

What the growth of the Amish and Mennonites can teach us about church growth.