Senior fellow for civic renewal and religious liberty at CRCD/First Liberty. World, ERLC, Acton, Modern Age, Braver Angels, Land Center, Touchstone. AMDG.
Lexington, SC
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I don’t often write about myself, but today I shared something deeply personal: my experience fighting cancer while continuing to do a job I love.
Cancer tried to make my world smaller. I was determined not to let it.
I am incredibly grateful to be cancer-free, and even more grateful for President Trump, my family, friends, colleagues, medical team and faith that carried me through the hardest days.
I hope sharing my story might offer some strength to even one person still in the fight.
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Your faithful correspondent at the Museum of the Bible Friday night enjoying the distinct pleasure of being interviewed by one of my old students, Josiah McGee. I have had some good ones and he was one of the best.
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As weird as Tucker Carlson gets, I'm always going to remember him asking Putin to let him take the WSJ reporter home.
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“God is the third rail of rock and roll.”
Reflecting on faith, honesty, and choosing to talk openly about God in music.
Full conversation on The Magnificent Others with this week’s guest Michael Sweet of Stryper.
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To my conservative Christian friends. Especially those who consider themselves fundamentalists. The day may come, and may already be here, when you are going to have to decide if you are going to follow Christ or choose kinism at the least and outright racism at the worst. The evidence that this toxic type of bigotry masquerading as Christianity is not fringe but has infiltrated significant portions of the church is becoming stronger every day.
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I'm not interested in installing a Protestant Franco, but I am interested in reading a really good biography of him. Any recommendations? He's the kind of figure where you'd need a really serious treatment as opposed to an ideological one.
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Good stuff: "The idea that the Kingdom of Christ requires formal dependence on, and enactment through, the state insults the efficacy of the blood of Christ."
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As President Trump welcomes the President of China for a state visit this week, we urge these leaders to work to bring Jimmy Lai’s imprisonment to an end.
As @WSJopinion writes:
"Releasing Mr. Lai would demonstrate that China’s leadership is confident enough to show compassion and that even amid serious disagreements, the two countries can still find room for an act of humanity."
From @WSJopinion: In the name of trust, free Jimmy Lai. There’s a diplomatic opportunity in Xi Jinping’s U.S. visit, writes Paul Wolfowitz.
on.wsj.com/4hm2gOP
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I'm seeing job opening after job opening at university civics centers for political scientists to teach the American founding, American govt etc. No jobs at all to teach the Western tradition. Do you guys really think you can make sense of American government and civic traditions without the study of Greece, Rome, Christendom and Europe? Where do you think America came from? Mars? Alien spaceships? "Global civilization"? @MadisonProgram @UNCSCILL @osuchasecenter @CivitasInst @BradleyFdn @CivicEducation
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This is an outstanding piece by First Liberty's founder and president, Kelly Shackelford. He has been on the front lines of constitutional litigation for at least three decades. This line regarding the democratic socialists especially got my attention:
"This is not an esoteric challenge to our economic system. It’s a threat to our entire republic."
(The piece has a pop-up you can just close.)
The socialists want a new Constitution. Believe them. theblaze.com/columns/opinion…
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Hypothesis: Christian Nationalism will never achieve a confessional state in USA. But it’s still destructive for leading Christians into futile cul-de-sacs, for fostering despair about & disdain for democracy & religious freedom, & for cultivating unhealthy attitudes about non-Christians.
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Time for more Washington Wednesday talking Trump and the U.N., China, GOP money assault on midterms, and more.
Washington Wednesday: What power is for wng.org/podcasts/washington-…
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Great piece by @AndrewTWalker. Co-sign.
Michael Scott’s Christian nationalism wng.org/opinions/michael-sco…
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I think we could get a constitutional amendment on presidential pardons. Maybe something like that there will be no pardons after an election and before the beginning of the next term.
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Wow. Great news!
Huge news in the academic world. My superstar former student Sherif Girgis has been appointed to a tenured full professorship at Harvard Law School. Sherif, who is currently a professor at the excellent Notre Dame Law School, is the lead co-author (with Ryan T. Anderson and me) of *What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense*. He is a powerful defender of the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions, and a critic of gender ideology.
Sherif was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton, where he received prizes for the best thesis in ethics and the best thesis in philosophy. He also received the International Dante Prize. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford where he completed the BPhil in philosophy. He received a JD degree from Yale Law School where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, then clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit for Judge Tom Griffith and on the Supreme Court of the United States for Justice Samuel Alito. He returned to Princeton where he earned his PhD in philosophy.
Congratulations to Harvard (and its distinguished Dean, John Goldberg--another former student of mine) for snagging a truly extraordinary young scholar and teacher. And congratulations to Sherif!
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Hunter Learns about the Lord of the Universe, by @hunterbaker hunterbaker.substack.com/p/h…
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"He drank life fully, somehow, and strong bourbon, too."
My UnHerd tribute to my friend Dovie Eisner, whom I was honored to sponsor when he was received into the Catholic Church.
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