The worst type of suffering, I believe, is that which the sufferer feels must be borne in silence. A couple of weeks ago, I was standing in the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. I had been sitting in the hotel’s restaurant for hours hammering out a Read more…
A generation ago, cultural critic Neil Postman published the clever little book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it, Postman considers the rival dystopian visions of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell as articulated in their classic novels Brave New World and 1984. Read More On The American Spectator Share this article! Read more…
Brantley, Alabama, population 809, isn’t known for much. Indeed, I have spent most of my life in Alabama and had never heard of it. I mean this as no slight. I am not a big city snob, and I love America’s small towns that, collectively, go far to defining this Read more…
Last week, Lauri and I were honored to attend The American Spectator’s annual gala at The Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. It was a pleasure to be in the company of so many like-minded people and to finally put faces with the names. In addition to the President of Read more…
Recently, I came across an article about actor Bob Saget and his former co-star, the embattled Lori Loughlin. I defended Loughlin in an article for USA Today, so I was interested in what Saget might say about her. Here was someone else, I thought, who sensed the lynch mob public mentality, and Read more…
NOTE: This is the text of a sermon given by Jwan Zhumbes, the Anglican Bishop of Bukuru, Nigeria, at churches in Birmingham and Cullman, Alabama. Many of you requested a written version of his message. Here it is. Part of the Christian and church family worldwide has been under siege Read more…
Returning to Birmingham from Oxford, England and my meeting with Richard Dawkins, we went to work preparing for an event that I believed would attract a lot of attention. But not everybody thought that.
Returning to Birmingham from Oxford, England and my meeting with Richard Dawkins, we went to work preparing for an event that I believed would attract a lot of attention. But not everybody thought that.
In recent days, Hillsong worship leader, Marty Sampson, has announced that his faith in Jesus Christ is “on incredibly shaky ground.” He has refuted initial reports of an outright denial of his faith. Predictably, this announcement came, like Joshua Harris’s, via the millennial way, Instagram. Sampson cites atheist arguments against Read more…