By Jonathon Van Maren Like millions of others, I took a few moments on Christmas Day to watch Queen Elizabeth’s annual Christmas address—the sixtieth time this address has been televised. And as usual, the Queen took the opportunity to use this address to the nation to highlight her personal faith, saying that, “We remember the…
By Jonathon Van Maren As Year One of the Trump Administration draws to a close, the predictable report cards are coming in. Progressives are predicting he’ll implode or be impeached and paint his first year as an unmitigated disaster, maintaining the shrill tone they inaugurated during his candidacy. Most conservatives see his presidency so far…
By Jonathon Van Maren R.C. Sproul, the well-known Reformed author, pastor, and founder of Ligonier Ministries, passed away at the age of 78 on December 14, 2017. A life-long advocate for classical apologetics, a renowned speaker, and the author of dozens of books, obituaries describing his life achievements are pouring in from every corner. I…
By Jonathon Van Maren As most of you will already know, the Trudeau government recently announced that any organization or business that wishes to apply to the Canada Summer Jobs Program must first prove their eligibility by submitting an “attestation” that affirms their organization’s support of abortion, transgenderism, and a laundry list of other progressive…
By Jonathon Van Maren These days, our culture has a weird relationship with the concept of fatherhood. The Sexual Revolution has enabled millions of men to procreate and promptly skip town, leaving their offspring in the care of single mothers. The abortion industry has enabled millions more to demand that the women they sleep with…
By Jonathon Van Maren In my earlier blog post, I noted that there is an increasing intolerance to any point of view that might illustrate any level of caution when it comes to the implementation of transgenderism—even when it might include physical or chemical castration for underage boys, or mastectomies for underage girls. Then, I…
By Jonathon Van Maren Despite a host of warnings from medical experts, the promotion of transgenderism is proceeding apace—and that includes parents cross-dressing their children, treating them as the opposite sex, and horrifyingly, beginning the physical transformation of their girls into boys and boys into girls at a very young age. Some of the “progressive”…
By Jonathon Van Maren As soon as I landed at Schipol Airport, I mapped my way to Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in the heart of Amsterdam. It is inside that beautiful old church, host to royal weddings and one of the grandest pipe organs in the Netherlands, that Admiral Michael de Ruyter is buried. De…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is a popular pastime of Democrats to point triumphantly to the moral shortcomings of assorted Republicans (Roy Moore being only the most recent and egregious of examples) and scoffing at the idea that the Republican Party is “pro-family values.” Some journalists have even pointed to polling that seems to indicate…
By Jonathon Van Maren As organization after organization falls to the marching militants of today’s gender ideology, it is sometimes hard not to get exasperated. No matter how prestigious the institution, and no matter how innocent the pastime, the gender ideologues show up and demand that their recently-concocted gender fluidity theories be fully implemented. This…