By Jonathon Van Maren Wild cheering and applause erupted in the New York State legislature as lawmakers voted on Tuesday to declare abortion until birth a “fundamental right” and strike any protections for children in the womb from the books. January 22 was chosen to celebrate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which has resulted…
By Jonathon Van Maren January 22, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – It is easy to get overwhelmed by the massive social changes that have swept the globe since the Sexual Revolution, especially because the secular progressives have so thoroughly conquered academia, the media, and the entertainment industry. In nearly every nation on earth, there are men and…
By Jonathon Van Maren There is something about a pro-life march that lifts my spirits. Seeing thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children taking to the streets to give voice and bear witness to the value of every human life is heartwarming. These people, after all, are not marching for themselves. They are lifting…
By Jonathon Van Maren Note: I’ve wanted to go to Turkey for years, and the opportunity simply never came up. Then, last fall, I got an email from YYZ Deals, which sends alerts of cheap tickets to international destinations: $370 CDN to Ankara, roundtrip. For any of you who want to do international travel but…
By Jonathon Van Maren January 21, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – There’s a reason I wait a day or two when the media decides to bash pro-lifers: They are not good faith actors, and they desperately want to believe the sorts of stories that suit their narrative about the pro-life movement. I’ve seen abortion activists fake hate crimes on…
By Jonathon Van Maren January 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – When it comes to the transgender movement, there is one thing you can always be assured of: there are more absurdities and flabbergasting demands to come. Last week, for example, The Sun reported that in the United Kingdom, biological males referring to themselves as transgender “women” are being offered…
By Jonathon Van Maren As I noted in my column last week, the media firestorm in the Netherlands surrounding the Dutch version of the Nashville Statement, a document reaffirming traditional Christian beliefs on sexuality and marriage, was interesting for several reasons—not the least of which is the fact that so many people seemed stunned by…
By Jonathon Van Maren One of the key signs of the growing divide between secular progressives and religious people in the United States is the fact that the media actually consider it to be a major news story when they discover that Christian institutions seek to abide by Christian principles. This time, it is the…
By Jonathon Van Maren If I asked you to guess which country has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, you probably wouldn’t guess Pakistan, a largely-conservative Muslim country where abortion is legal in only a handful of circumstances (primarily danger to the mother’s health) and the vast majority of physicians refuse to…
By Jonathon Van Maren As our society reorders itself around the tenets of the Sexual Revolution, witch hunts are becoming the norm. It is now considered news, for example, that a Catholic priest holds to Catholic doctrine on issues of sexuality, and major newspapers (in this case the Toronto Star) breathlessly cover this non-story with…