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Birthright Citizenship Is Living on Borrowed Time

2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (149+ words) This is armchair speculation. The numbers may be quite different. But it's clear to supporters of the present policy of unlimited birthright citizenship, and to opponents like me, that it is consequential'not just as a source of demographic change, but…...

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No Faith Worth Defending

10+ hour, 48+ min ago  (146+ words) Buckingham Palace has updated the official description of the monarch's role vis--vis the Church of England. No longer is the king the "Defender of the Faith; rather, "His Majesty is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and protects…...

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Is Trump v. Barbara the New Roe?

22+ hour, 48+ min ago  (190+ words) On Tuesday, in a decision that will rank among the most consequential'and misguided'of the modern era, the Supreme Court entrenched an expansive vision of birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara, fundamentally reshaping the boundaries of the American political community. Justice Clarence…...

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Keeping a Republic: A 250th Birthday Meditation

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (141+ words) Taken together, the truths explicitly claimed or implied by the Declaration of Independence are summed up in this master truth: Only a virtuous people can live freedom so that individuals flourish in a society of solidarity. Only a virtuous people…...

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Sexual Ethics Is a Social Justice Issue

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (186+ words) I'm no communist. But I can't deny that I find KKE's logic compelling. Sexual liberation dovetails with a consumerist mindset that plays an essential role in sustaining our present neoliberal economic system. We can learn from the KKE that traditional…...

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Your House Is Not Just an Investment

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (250+ words) It takes approximately thirty-eight seconds for Miranda Lambert to make me cry. Her 2010 country ballad "The House That Built Me" is a tearjerker from the second line: "Ma'am, I know you don't know me from Adam / But these hand prints…...

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The Community Answering the College Faith-Abandonment Crisis

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (316+ words) After learning about the Oaks Retreat during her Auburn tour, Caitlyn Holmes decided to attend the Arch Retreat as a freshman at the University of Georgia. During her sophomore year, she signed up to be a counselor and saw the…...

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What JD Vance Found in the Church

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (182+ words) Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faithby jd vanceharpercollins, 304 pages, $35 Can I be direct with you? So much of what passes for "culture" today degrades rather than ennobles. Literary magazines that once shaped American identity have either folded or surrendered…...

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An Evangelical Update to Just War Theory

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (120+ words) And yet, simply because modern applications of just war theory are outdated (or misunderstood and misused) does not mean we are called to discard the theory. Rather, we need to revisit it from the evangelical counter-praxis of love. War, for…...

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Theistic Transhumanism

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (304+ words) Christians instinctively, and rightly, protest. Our bodies are cunningly designed and, as Carl Trueman has insisted, they aren't raw material to shape to our whims. We're creatures, bounded and finite, necessarily limited in our knowing and acting. Any attempt to…...

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