If Our Ancestors Were So Smart, How Come They’re Dead?
The tendency toward what C.S. Lewis termed "chronological snobbery" is probably more pronounced in our own age than at any time in history. Much has been made of the fact that an Arizona law that prohibits abortion was first enacted in 1864. In attacking it, both the...
Body and Soul
The Trouble with being Spiritual There’s nothing wrong with being spiritual, but there is something wrong with being solely spiritual since we are created as a combination of body and spirit. Nevertheless, Christians throughout history have been tempted to turn the...
Catholics and Protestants Slide Together into Gnostic Private Cults
The second of a two-part series. Until recently, Protestants were more likely than Catholics to succumb to the Gnostic temptation I described in a recent column. In a 2008 article for Modern Reformation, Philip J. Lee described how both Mainline and “born again”...
The Secret Religion of Our Elites Which Our Own Kids Are Joining: Gnosticism
Part 1 of a two-part series A 2023 Gallup poll found that the percentage of Americans who identify as spiritual rather than religious has increased. And among Democrats, more people now describe themselves as spiritual (41%) than as religious (37%). However, according...
Decoding the Constitution
Suppose someone offered you a shiny quarter in exchange for the tattered $10 bill in your wallet. Would you bite? Silly question. But that’s the kind of exchange proffered in The Da Vinci Code, and apparently, a lot of people are biting. Many scholars have criticized...
Massacre in Moscow
Pope Francis has frequently claimed that Islam and Catholicism share much in common and he has often drawn a moral equivalence between the two faiths. For example, after the murder of French priest Father Jacques Hamel by two Islamic terrorists, he compared the murder...
Biden and Bergoglio
Are the Similarities Mere Coincidence or Something More? Many commentators have noted that there are a remarkable number of similarities between President Joe Biden and Pope Francis. A partial list would include the fact that one man is the leader of the Western...
The Mystery of the Missing Motive
Back in January, Bezhani Sarvar, a Muslim security guard attacked The City Hall in Edmonton , Canada with a firearm and Molotov cocktails. In a four minute online video, he explained to his "brothers and sisters before I do my mission" that he was taking revenge for...
The Sterility Epidemic
And its causes. Although Mark Steyn writes knowledgeably about a great many topics, he keeps returning to what he calls the biggest story of our time—the planet’s demographic death spiral. The decline in population is a global phenomenon, but it’s happening faster in...
The Church and the Devil
If the Church is doing the Devil’s will, why does he attack it? In case you didn’t know, the Internet is full of videos bashing the Catholic Church. Most of these are produced by fundamentalist or born-again Christians, some of whom are ex-Catholics. They insist that...
