God’s Sovereign Plan 　　By: Amanda Idleman 　　The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.” – Isaiah 14:24 　　As you read through Isaiah, you are clued into the nature and character of God through the prophetic gift given to Isaiah. Isaiah’s mouth is filled with words...

　　In 1984—my sophomore year of high school—the movie The Killing Fields changed my world. Thanks to a brilliant mom, I had been raised in a very pro-Goldwater and pro-Reagan household, and I already wore my conservative libertarianism rather blatantly and, at times, obnoxiously, on my sleeve. Even at age 16, I was a deeply committed anti-Communist. I devoured anti-totalitarian novels,...

　　What Would Jesus Do? 　　By Laura Bailey 　　“My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,”James 1:19 NIV 　　Screeecccchhhhhhhh. 　　My heartbeat quickened. I peered at my brother, desperately hoping that I had imagined that sickening sound while my shaking hand grasped my car door. My legs...

　　The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) at its annual meeting on Thursday voted to investigate the Christian appropriateness of the best-selling book Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, who was part of the PCA and died in August last year at age 77. Young was one of the most-read evangelicals of the last 20 years. 　　Pastors in the denomination are concerned...

　　The Supreme Court rejected a bid for more restrictions on the drugs for medication abortions, ruling against a group that included pro-life Christian doctors. 　　The doctors had argued that one drug, mifepristone, was unsafe, and that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to uphold proper procedure when it relaxed regulations to obtain the drug by mail and at...

　　The Neo-Brandeisian conception of antitrust touted by Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and others can be boiled down to “big business is bad.” Their response, in short, is to develop a complex regulatory regime that prevents the ills associated with that bigness. 　　This approach suffers from at least two flaws: first, it assumes that regulatory costs will hit the...

　　According to recent opinion polls, Americans are very unhappy with universities. But a primary cause of that discontent is the very reason we measure popular opinion about them: The democratic ideal enjoys sweeping influence over all our institutions, not only its rightful domain over the explicitly political. Alexis de Tocqueville warned that such was the power of democracy in America...

　　Living by Faith 　　Weekly Overview: 　　Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”Faith is the undercurrent of everything we do as followers of Jesus. Without faith we lose all that Christ died to give us while here on earth. It is by faith we access the peace, joy, guidance, love,...

　　In the weeks before the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting, newly elected president Clint Pressley finished reading Malcom Gladwells book on precision bombing in World War II, Erik Larsons bestseller set in the lead-up to the Civil War, and a history of a 19th-century mutiny on a Royal Navy vessel. 　　A few years ago, these stories could have been...

　　Jules Woodson remembers the spark of hope she felt when a sea of yellow ballots went up across the hall at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting in 2022. The vote in favor of abuse reform following a watershed abuse investigation was her sign that the messengers cared about victims like her and were willing to listen and make...

　　The Department of Education’s new Title IX regulations become effective August 1, 2024. Not surprisingly, they have already garnered numerous lawsuits. These highly partisan regulations essentially reissue the Obama administration’s attempts to mandate a parallel justice system for adjudicating campus peer sexual misconduct, as well as other policies that redefined “sex” to include “gender identity.” These earlier attempts were quickly...

　　On the surface, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association represents a triumph of originalism. Justice Thomas’s majority decision for seven members of the Court expertly employs originalist methodology. The dissent, by Justice Alito, is also written from an originalist perspective, adopting a different view of the original meaning. But below the...