by Kevin Bauder | Dec 1, 2016 | Bioethics, Ethics, Politics, Uncategorized
Building upon work by Peter Kreeft, Justin Taylor helps us think about a reasoned case against seeing abortion as a right. If I seem to be linking to a lot of Taylor’s writing, it’s because he has been doing some pretty good stuff. This essay is no...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 28, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Politics
Far from shunning diversity, conservatism revels in it–genuine diversity, that is. Bradley J. Birzer at the Imaginative Conservative explains. Our teachers—even in a relatively small town in Kansas, the children of the 1960s—talked about love and peace, but they...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 28, 2016 | Ethics, Politics, Religious Freedom, World Events
Over the protests of 54 mainly-African nations, the UN General Assembly’s human rights committee created a special post overseeing LGBT issues. Read the story at LifeSite.
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 22, 2016 | Anthropology, Bauder's Reading, Christianity, Culture, Politics, Sacred and Mundane
Scripture requires a high view of creation and of cultural activity, but it also requires a distinction between the holy things of Christ’s heavenly kingdom and the common things of the present world. It requires a distinction between God’s providential sustaining of...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 18, 2016 | Culture, Ethics, Liberalism, Politics
Ironic, isn’t it? Liberals have taught us a sense of horror and cultural imperialism and ideological colonization. Yet according to Bishop Emmanuel Badejo, that is exactly what US liberals are doing to Africa. He complains that the USA refuses to help Nigeria in...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 14, 2016 | America, Politics, Religious Freedom
Ryan Anderson offers a cogent set of recommendations in “Make Religious Freedom Great Again.” Whether it be harassing an order of nuns, forcing doctors to perform sex-reassignment therapies, or preventing local schools from finding win-win compromise...
