Is Christian Teaching on Sexuality Psychologically Harmful?
Around the beginning of the year, headlines told of the suicide of Josh “Leelah” Alcorn, a teen who self-identified first as gay, then as transgender. In the wake of this unspeakable tragedy, Josh’s...
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The Value of Children: Economics, Faith, and the Problem of Underpopulation
In a recent mini-documentary, the New York Times investigates the unrealized horrors of population explosion, especially those predicted by Paul Ehrlich in his 1968 book, The Population Bomb. Despite...
View ArticleDemocracy Isn’t the Problem: The Benedict Option Meets the Buckley Option
There’s been a lot of online chatter about Rod Dreher’s proposed “Benedict Option.” The fact that this conversation is taking place is encouraging, because it demonstrates that people are engaging in...
View ArticleThe Equality Act: Bad Policy that Poses Great Harms
Building on the momentum from the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling that redefined marriage throughout America, LGBT activists working with Democratic lawmakers have unveiled a new bill titled “The...
View ArticleContra Mundum Pro Mundo: A Review of The Colson Way
Reading Owen Strachan’s newest work, The Colson Way: Loving Your Neighbor and Living with Faith in a Hostile World, was like retracing the pathway that gave rise to my vocation and convictions,...
View ArticleReligious Liberty and the Fracturing of Civil Society
The first lesson in civics received by most children in America is that America is a great “melting pot,” or perhaps a large patterned quilt sewn together with many unique squares. These images are...
View ArticleReligious Liberty Crisis Averted in California
Over the years, California has often presented itself as a thriving example of pluralism and openness. It has promoted a “live and let live” ethos that didn’t please everyone but did allow a diversity...
View ArticleNational Geographic's "Gender Revolution": Bad Argument and Biased Ideology
The January 2017 issue of National Geographic is dedicated to exploring what it calls the “Gender Revolution”—a post-Sexual Revolution movement that seeks to deconstruct traditional understandings...
View ArticleReclaiming Hope—and Intellectual Honesty: A Christian’s Insider View of the...
In a hyper-politicized age like our own, intellectual honesty is one of the first casualties. Hewing to the ideological line prevents otherwise honest people from admitting error when things go wrong....
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name? Why Christians Should Be Wary of the Word "Transgender"
Cultural debates come packaged with new words and concepts. By creating “constructs” that give names to subjective theories, progressives attempt to crystallize their social theories and give them the...
View ArticleParental Rights: A Casualty of the Transgender Revolution
On February 16, 2018, Ohio Judge Sylvia Sieve Hendon handed down a decision in Hamilton County Juvenile Court that removed a gender dysphoric child from the custody of her biological parents and...
View ArticleForcing Pro-Life Pregnancy Care Centers to Advertise for Abortion is Unjust...
Can the state compel an organization to proclaim a message that is the very antithesis of its mission? On March 20, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that poses this question....
View ArticleThe Merit Badge of Surrender: How the Boy Scouts of America are Succumbing to...
The incremental surrender of the Boy Scouts to the gender revolution has undermined the very reason for their existence. Last week, the Boy Scouts of America, a venerated organization, announced that...
View ArticleHow a Once-Secular Iranian Muslim-Turned-Atheist Turned Catholic
It is not very often that a Reformed evangelical confessional Baptist has the opportunity to review a memoir by a once-secular Iranian Muslim-turned-atheist-turned-Catholic. That memoir belongs to New...
View ArticleBen Shapiro and the West’s Moral Vision
Ben Shapiro is one of the most influential conservative voices in America. His podcast is one of the most downloaded in America, and he has over a million followers on Twitter. YouTube clips of Shapiro...
View ArticleIs Billy Graham the New Jim Crow?
At best, the question of religious liberty and LGBT rights is one of gridlock. At worst, it’s a zero-sum, winner-takes-all contest that pits the legitimate desire for conscience freedom against the...
View ArticleIntroducing our New Contributing Editor, Andrew T. Walker
Andrew Walker recently joined the Public Discourse editorial team as a Contributing Editor. Our Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Ryan Anderson, sat down—at a safe social distance, of course—with Andrew to...
View ArticleWhy We Plan to Get Vaccinated: A Christian Moral Perspective
Strongly held opinions about vaccines and vaccination are the subject of explosive debates in America. We expect these debates to become more intense as COVID-19 vaccines are approved and distributed....
View ArticleProtecting Christian Political Theology from the Shibboleth of “Christian...
In the aftermath of the January 6 riot and attack on the Capitol, onlookers and commentators are seeking to explain and, in turn, to fix blame on the parties responsible for these actions. Enter the...
View ArticleWhy We Opposed an Anti-Abortion Resolution at the Southern Baptist Convention
One of the difficult things about the Resolutions process at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is that the messengers, who represent cooperating churches, are often given far...
View ArticleCommon Sense Conservatism: An Interview with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
Bill Lee is the 50th Governor of Tennessee. Recently, Public Discourse Contributing Editor Andrew T. Walker was granted the opportunity to interview Governor Lee. Under Governor Bill Lee’s leadership,...
View ArticleShould Christians Claim Religious Exemption from Mask Mandates?
Several state governments and some big cities reimposed mask mandates this summer and fall as the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 spread through the United States. Some of these local...
View ArticleThree Responses to “Hopeful Realism”
Last week, Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw, and Micah Watson wrote a Long Read that mapped out a framework for how evangelicals should engage public life. “Hopeful realism,” as they termed it, seeks to...
View ArticleFidelity to God: Our Highest Good
Editor’s Note: This essay is the first in a three part series that, in recognition of Fidelity Month, reflects on the importance of fidelity to God, our families, and our country. You can watch a...
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