By Jonathon Van Maren In March, I traveled to Russia to meet with Danish journalist Iben Thranholm on a research project to examine the connections between faith, politics, and power in modern Russia. Here is my reporting from Russia, in one place for your convenience if you happen to be interested. Our day with a…
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By Jonathon Van maren It is a curious characteristic of progressive movements that they often begin by singing praises to a rainbow of diversity, and end by enforcing dull, grey conformism. Gender fluidity is in the process of being sold to the public as a joyful experience in which the shackles of heteronormative binarism are…
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By Jonathon Van Maren July 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Perhaps nothing has revealed the stark American divide like the question that sprang from the lips of commentators from the moment the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy was announced: Will there be violence?There is in this question a recognition that two great masses of American people have moved…
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By Jonathon Van Maren June 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Every year, thousands upon thousands of people arrive in De Smet, South Dakota in minivans filled with sweaty and excited children. They are here to see a small, nondescript white frame house with a sign in front of it that explains why everyone is here: Ingalls Home…
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Longtime politician and founder of two political parties Preston Manning joined Jonathon Van Maren to talk about his new book and faith in the public square.
By Jonathon Van Maren When Canada’s Supreme Court announced that a decision on the Trinity Western University law school case was imminent and the forthcoming decision on an injunction against Bill 24 in Alberta was suddenly delayed, I immediately suspected that the Alberta court was waiting to find out what would happen with TWU before…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Justice Anthony Kennedy, the longstanding swing vote on the United States Supreme Court, has sent his resignation later to President Donald Trump. He was, as David French described, “the primary judicial guardian of abortion rights and was more responsible than any other justice for the relentless legal march of the sexual…
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By Jonathon Van Maren June 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Tate Gallery label for Pablo Picasso’s 1905 portrait Girl in a Chemise paints a dreadful picture. “This waif-like girl is among Picasso’s cast of people from the margins of society,” it read. “A melancholic mood is conveyed with veils of paint…Her delicate pink flesh evokes the skin-colour…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It is safe to say that Justin Trudeau hasn’t had a very good year so far. From his costume-festooned India trip to his gender budget flop, Pierre’s son has done his best to remind Canadians that Stephen Harper’s 2015 attack ads warning that he just wasn’t ready might not have been…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Euthanasia numbers are skyrocketing. In the first seven months of legal assisted suicide in Quebec, 262 people utilized the process to kill themselves. And now this, from the CBC: There were 1,523 medically assisted deaths in Canada in the last six-month reporting period — a nearly 30 per cent increase over the…
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