Category Archives: Current Issues

Student Riots

May 7, 2012 By in Culture, Current Issues

We were up in Canada last week and the student riots in Montreal are bigger news there than they are here. Hundreds of university students are making a huge fuss in Quebec which turned violent, all because tuition (which is currently about half of what it is in the U.S.) has gone up.

This sort of demonstration is irritating partly because they are making a mess, partly because they are taking up all the headlines, and largely because they are wrong. Having someone charge you more for an optional service is no reason to hurt other people or destroy their property. Continue reading →

The Lie(s) of Feminism

April 16, 2012 By in Current Issues, Women

In my last semester at an old, secular university, I was invited to a faculty dinner. In a conversational lull, the female principal asked me from across the large table what I was planning to in the fall (she had provided parts for grad school applications and wanted to know where I would be studying). Fourteen weeks pregnant, I told her what my plan was: to have a baby. The whole table went silent. Male professors were surprised and awkward, but the women were visibly angry. The other student there later asked if I was serious. The only positive reaction was from my old school liberal, Anglican (male) thesis advisor. Someone changed the topic. Continue reading →

Liberalism, Botox, and Lady Folly

April 12, 2012 By in Church History, Current Issues

“On Sunday morning, 21 May 1922, Harry Emerson Fosdick mounted the pulpit of the First Prsebyterian Church of New York to preach the most famous sermon of his career, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” Described by Fosdick as a “plea for good will,” the sermon fell like a bombshell on the Presbyterian Church and set in motion a series of explosions that would rock the church until well into the next decade. Continue reading →

Spring Styles and Postmodernism

April 2, 2012 By in Current Issues

In our society, Postmoderns have come up with the idea that we cannot know truth; that we cannot even know if we are coming closer to truth or getting further away from it. On an academic level, this has led to deconstructionist literary criticism and the new historicism, among other things. Postmoderns deconstruct coherent and rational ways of thinking about the world and who we are. Such thinking is destructive on the intellectual level.

But the thinking does not end there. The fashion industry has taken these metaphysical concepts and applied them to the clothing it sells. Continue reading →

Modesty Links

March 19, 2012 By in Current Issues, Women

“They come out with the warm weather, just like insects,” says my husband of immodest women. Here are some links to encourage you (or your daughter) to dress in a way that glorifies Christ this summer:

- Girltalk’s “Modesty Heart Check”
- CJ Mahaney’s sermon “The Soul of Modesty”
- The Rebelution’s modesty survey
- Mary Mohler’s excellent article “Modeling Modesty”
- Mary Kassian’s post “What and What Not to Wear”
- Two blog posts by Carolyn McCulley, here and here
- And in case you’re getting married this summer, Al Mohler has some thoughts.

Healthcare: Socialized or Privatized?

February 29, 2012 By in Current Issues

Healthcare is one of those issues that people take to heart; a political leader can enrage half the country by changing a system in either direction. People care because it affects them at such a personal level.

I have lived in three countries, two with socialized healthcare, and one with privatized. We have experienced and seen the downside of each, and the benefits of each – given birth, done ER, gone for check-ups. I get asked all the time (especially at the doctor’s office) which is better. If I was dictator of a country, which system would I promote? What would I choose? Continue reading →

Facebook, Privacy and Marital Oneness

February 27, 2012 By in Current Issues, Marriage

Maybe it’s me, but there seem to be an awful lot of couples posting things on their facebook accounts to each other about their relationship. From “you’re the best boyfriend ever” to “he said ______ when he proposed” to “I’m pregnant, Honey”.

Now, the emotional side of a relationship is just as real as the sexual one. Making out in public is unacceptable, but the emotional equivalent is almost expected online. Nobody minds if a couple holds hands, or gives each other a peck on the cheek, but even unbelievers keep public displays of affection under control when there are other people around. But so often, Christian couples are “over the top” in their emotional interaction online.
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