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…
By Jonathon Van Maren In the months leading up to the abortion referendum on May 25, one of the most tireless pro-life activists in the Republic of Ireland was Tim Jackson, a young man who quit his job to work fulltime to save the 8th Amendment. For weeks, he led the Vote No Roadshow right…
By Jonathon Van Maren May 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Queen Elizabeth II, known to some as “the last Christian monarch,” is a profoundly apolitical person—she and her family do not even vote. She has remained for many a steadfast symbol of a Great Britain that has slowly faded away, with her first and favorite prime…
Pro-life activists Bernadette Smyth of Precious Life joined Jonathon Van Maren to talk about the abortion referendum in the Republic of Ireland, and what the pro-life movement is planning to do to keep abortion out of Northern Ireland–where abortion is still illegal.
By Jonathon Van Maren Canadian Christians won an extremely important victory at the Supreme Court of Canada today. The Association of Reformed Political Action, a Christian advocacy group rooted in the Reformed theological tradition, summarized it this way in a press release sent out today: Can the decision of a church or religious body to…