By Jonathon Van Maren Anyone who has kids knows that children change when their eyes lock on a screen. My daughter is barely over a year old and gets no screen time whatsoever, but if she spots a TV in restaurant or sees me scroll on my smartphone, her eyes fixate on the screen, her…
DetailsBy Jonathon Van Maren Five years ago, I sat in a courtroom in Philadelphia, watching the prosecutor make his final pitch to the jury. Kermit Gosnell, the abortionist on trial, was seated at the front, his face split with a permanently creepy smile. He seemed pleased that he had perfected the practice of “snipping”: Delivering…
DetailsBy Jonathon Van Maren October 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It is truly mind-boggling to consider the extent to which the science and technology sectors have dedicated themselves to making LGBT fantasies a reality, from transgender people demanding free wombs to reproductive technologies ensuring that same-sex couples can create designer babies biologically connected to both of them. There…
DetailsBy Jonathon Van Maren As the Sexual Revolution inches past the half-century mark, it is becoming increasingly obvious to anyone who happens to be looking closely that this collective social experiment has not worked out particularly well. As I highlighted in the first several chapters of my 2016 book The Culture War, broken marriages, shattered…
DetailsBy Jonathon Van Maen I’ve noted many times on this blog that the backlash against pornography is increasing as porn use becomes ubiquitous and its poison seeps into every aspect of our lives. Increasingly, there are those who stand up and demand a change. Consider this wonderful open letter in the Notre Dame Observer on…
DetailsBy Jonathon Van Maren It is a sad irony that one consequence of the Sexual Revolution has been that Christians are being barred with increasing frequency from caring for society’s orphans, even as abortion activists delight in accusing them of being callous to the fate of these children. I’ve heard many stories of Christians who…
DetailsBy Jonathon Van Maren October 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Despite decades of activism and a near-complete takeover of the institutions of academia, the media, and the educational system, abortion activists have spectacularly failed to accomplish their goal of “normalizing” abortion and persuading people that feticide is like an appendectomy, but safer. The “ShoutYourAbortion” campaign flopped…
DetailsBy Jonathon Van Maren Two weeks after Richard Sempala was born, he was dropped in a trash can alongside the street in Kampala, Uganda. His weak cries were heard by a passerby, who called the directors of an orphanage to come and fetch him. Despite this sad beginning, Sempala feels indebted to his mother. “I…
DetailsBy Jonathon Van Maren This, from the Telegraph, is just incredible: Surgeons have operated on unborn babies for the first time ever in Britain. Weeks before they even took their first breaths, two babies had their spinal cords delicately repaired while still in the womb. The spina bifida surgeries were successfully performed by a team at London’s…
DetailsBy Jonathon Van Maren While traditionalists are losing the culture on a handful of fundamental issues—on sexual morality, for example—there has consistently been good news on one front: The battle for hearts and minds on the issue of abortion. From LifeSiteNews: The pro-life cause is gaining momentum in the United States with a growing number…
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