Buying the “right” product, boycotting the “right” product — and, of course, pointing out the virtue of one’s choice on social media — have all become formalized ways of allying oneself with a metaphysical or ethical value system.
Buying the “right” product, boycotting the “right” product — and, of course, pointing out the virtue of one’s choice on social media — have all become formalized ways of allying oneself with a metaphysical or ethical value system.
Last week, the spokeswoman for a British doula association was forced to resign after reminding her social media followers that people who have wombs are… women. Commenting on a health awareness campaign that encouraged “everyone aged 25-64 with a cervix” to get screened for cancer, the longtime birth coach wrote, “I am not a ‘cervix owner ...’ I am a woman: an adult human female.”
Fred Rogers was a music major in college with plans to attend seminary upon graduation. Then he came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to discover that his parents had bought a television. When he turned it on, according to Junod, he knew that he wanted to use its medium “for the broadcasting of grace through the land.”
By 2035, NASA is once again vowing to send astronauts to Mars.
An Illinois school district has determined that transgender students will have unrestricted access to all locker rooms.
Megan Phelps-Roper is the granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps. She made news a few years ago when she escaped and renounced the cult of her childhood, an experience she describes in a new book. Her story, which I’ve followed since she first left the so-called church, is absolutely fascinating. And in her recent interview with popular atheist podcaster Sam Harris, Phelps-Roper offers a glimpse into the evil philosophy behind Westboro.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed Senate Bill 660 recently. It specifies that an employer shall not “discriminate nor take any retaliatory personnel action” against employees with respect to their beliefs and choices regarding abortion. The bill makes no exceptions for religious organizations.
As journalist Douglas Murray writes in a terrific new book, “The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity,” “we are living through a postmodern age in which the grand narratives of religion and political ideology have collapsed.”
In the nation's first presidential primary, South Bend, Indiana mayor, Pete Buttigieg has surged to a 10-point lead.
One of the groups that will no longer be funded by Chick-Fil-A is the Salvation Army. They specialize in ministering to the homeless and the hungry, the precise type of group Chick-fil-A's press release says they are shifting their focus toward. Clearly, there was more to Chick-fil-A's Monday announcement than new priorities.
