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On March 4, news broke that African Christian University dean Voddie Baucham was asked to accept a nomination to be President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Baptist denomination…
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It is perhaps unsurprisingly rare for anyone to talk about Goop, New Agers, and the world of wellness as offering trenchant critiques of neoliberal capitalism. But let’s try. Netflix’s The Goop Lab…
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Redemption of the man who has done bad things is dependent on this principle: The men involved are not bad men at heart. They are mistaken or misled. They just didn’t realize what was wrong.
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I strongly suspect that what Senator Orrin Hatch found so objectionable about the Kavanaugh hearing was that women were allowed to ask questions of a man.
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Somaliland, the unrecognized self-governing region of Somalia, is known for two things: its relatively stable government, and its staggering rate of female genital cutting (FGC). In early February…
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Stories of sexual abuse and misconduct are, of course, nothing new. The matter changes. So do the punishments and the means of restoration or reconciliation. When Oedipus, the legendary Greek king…
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I am a liberal Christian, but I generally think well of First Things as a publication by and for smart conservative Christians. I don’t expect to agree with everything I find in it, but I do expect…
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It’s possible, I guess, that contracts are being signed in blood at Condé Nast headquarters. But I doubt it.
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More and more practitioners have grown weary of being repeatedly told “because God says so, end of discussion” when asking why same-sex relationships are prohibited in Islam.
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There are reportedly a record number of openly lesbian, gay, and bisexual athletes competing in this year’s Olympics, which the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers wrote are getting under way “against…
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