By Jonathon Van Maren It was a clean sweep for the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario’s provincial election yesterday. Doug Ford’s PC Party secured a majority government with 76 seats at Queen’s Park, the NDP only managed to win 40 seats, and the Liberal Party did not even meet the 8-seat threshold for official party status,…
By Jonathon Van Maren June 7, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The reactions to Monday’s Supreme Court decision for Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshops have been coming fast and furious from both sides of the political spectrum. The consensus developing on the Right seems to be suspicious celebration—the Court, after all, did not protect all religious liberty,…
By Jonathon Van Maren Warren Kinsella, the famous old guard Liberal political consultant, commentator, and author, published a blog post earlier today featuring a newspaper clipping from a British Columbian newspaper dated August 14, 2000. The editorial, written by someone Kinsella refers to as a “known” reporter who is apparently married with children and living…
By Jonathon Van Maren June 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A few of you might remember a horrific case in the United Kingdom a few years ago, where a Family Court judge ordered what amounted to a medical rape, sending a “mentally incompetent” teenage girl to get an abortion against her will. The girl was firmly opposed to the…
Note: This is the final essay in the series I’ve been writing on the rise, fall, and resurgence of the Orthodox Church and connections between the Church and Vladimir Putin since my research trip to the Russian Federation. The others can be read here, here, here, here and here. By Jonathon Van Maren On January…
By Jonathon Van Maren With the nearly non-stop passage of pro-life legislation on the state level across the U.S. since 2018 began, many people justifiably ask whether that legislation is symbolic, merely intended to educate the public due to the certainty that it will be overturned by the courts, or whether it is actually effective…
By Jonathon Van Maren American Christians have just secured one of the most consequential legal victories for religious liberty in decades, and the first major victory since the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015: The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled for Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in his long battle to…
By Jonathon Van Maren Just in time for Pride Month, Christianity Today reported this pleasant story of a gay rights group suing a church for a cool $2.3 million for declining to rent out its property for an LGBT event: An Oregon business has filed a complaint against a church that prohibited it from hosting…
By Jonathon Van Maren In today’s era of state-run schools with sanctioned sex education, it is essential that parents remain vigilant in order to remain aware of what their children are being taught and exposed to. With dramatically spiking rates of children and teens who are claiming that they would like to physically transition into…
By Jonathon Van Maren June 1, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Social commentators and scholars have been opining on the collapse of Christianity across Western Europe for decades now, as the vacuum created by the ongoing extinction of faith has been accompanied by the collapse of the traditional family and a demographic winter so severe it has…