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…
By Jonathon Van Maren Like any young conservative who wants to become a writer someday, William F. Buckley was one of my heroes back when I attended university in Vancouver (where, incidentally, his wife Patricia hailed from). His resume was so impressive it was hard not to be awed: He founded the National Review, began…
By Jonathon Van Maren With the near-universal acceptance of the premises of transgender ideology by the media, it is sometimes difficult to discern the truth of a story due to the Orwellian language used by the press to convey “news story.” Consider, for example, this recent headline in the Seattle Times: “Faith-based shelter fights to…
By Jonathon Van Maren It seems as if I’m reporting this story every other day, but according to The Sun in the UK, another data set indicates that the number of children choosing to identify as transgender is spiking dramatically, with the UK Deed Poll Service noting that one child under the age of sixteen…
By Jonathon Van Maren January 14, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – It is a sad irony that I spotted the headline in the Irish Times, a newspaper which led the media charge in favor of legal abortion in Ireland: German man who survived abortion dies at aged 21. “Tim was not supposed to be born,” the Jan. 9 column, written by…
By Jonathon Van Maren First it was the so-called “right to die.” Once the suicide activists attained that, it became the right to be killed at the institution of their choice, regardless of whether or not others had any qualms about transforming their approach to medicine and repudiating the Hippocratic Oath. As is so often…
By Jonathon Van Maren The news that a new political party unambiguously calling itself “the Islamic Party of Ontario” may soon be an option at Ontario’s ballot boxes has triggered precisely the sort of commentary you would expect it to. Tarek Fatah highlighted some of the unsavory aspects of several of the would-be founders. Michael…