By Jonathon Van Maren Feminism rebelled against reality. Transgenderism seeks to abolish it entirely. But the feminists and the gender ideologues are beginning to realize that their worldviews don’t line up very nicely. It seems as if our culture doesn’t quite understand just how radical the transgender fad actually is—or how genuinely insulting it is…
By Jonathon Van Maren Note: I wrote this profile for LifeCanada’s magazine, and it appeared in their last issue. Devorah Gilman first heard about abortion when she was three or four years old. “I thought it sounded like something the ancient Romans did and dismissed it as a horrible thing that probably didn’t happen much…
By Jonathon Van Maren Since 1977, abortion has been legal in the State of Israel under a set of supposedly strict conditions, and each abortion must be approved by a ghoulishly-named “termination committee.” According to the guidelines, an abortion can be procured if the woman is younger than the legal marriage age (which is 18…
By Jonathon Van Maren Two centuries ago in the little Austrian town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, a thirty-one-year-old primary school teacher and church organist composed the music to a set of lyrics written two years before in 1816 by a Catholic priest. Franz Gruber did not know it, but in doing so he became the…
By Jonathon Van Maren December 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Nobody knows where Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman recently released from years on death row for “blaspheming” the Muslim religion, will spend Christmas. Her spokesman said only that it will be in a closed room in protective custody, to keep her safe from the mobs in Pakistan…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few years back, before we were married, my wife worked in the catering business. As the Advent season began, one of her colleagues asked her a question that floored her: “What is Christmas all about?” As it turned out, her colleague had never heard the Christmas story before. She’d never…
By Jonathon Van Maren If you’ve ever wondered whether judges have the power to define or redefine reality, consider a recent ruling by Judge B. Lynn Winmill of Idaho’s U.S. District Court on December 13. According to ABC News—and notice the language used here—the state of Idaho “must provide gender confirmation surgery to a transgender inmate…
By Jonathon Van Maren December 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Once upon a time, it was recognized that the purpose of government identification was to identify the person to whom it was issued. It was generally agreed upon that this was a helpful way of confirming the identity of the carrier in any number of situations,…
By Jonathon Van Maren One of America’s key chroniclers of how the history of the United States has been shaped by the Christian faith is Stephen Mansfield, the author and co-author of over eighteen books, most recently Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him. His books The Faith of George…
By Jonathon Van Maren It has been twenty-two years since Dutch author Geert Mak’s An Island in Time was first published in the Netherlands. An ode to Jorwerd, the little Frisian village where he grew up, Mak writes movingly of the decline and collapse of village culture across Europe with lines rendered so tenderly I…