By Jonathon Van Maren I’m often asked how I manage to stay in good spirits when one of my primary jobs working fulltime as a pro-life activist is to research and write about the crumbling culture all around us, and that’s a pretty good question. Frustration, disbelief, and even anger are pretty regular sentiments when…
By Jonathon Van Maren It looks like religious liberty may have just secured another important victory in the wake of Jack Phillips’ success at the US Supreme Court earlier this month. In a decision that Ryan T. Anderson called “great news,” the Court decided to vacate a Washington state ruling against florist Barronelle Stutzman, who…
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…
By Jonathon Van Maren Australia is the latest nation to discover that the activists who spent years pushing for gay marriage while insisting that it would have no impact on anyone were lying. Australian LGBT activists, just like those in other Western nations, had absolutely no intention of winning the right to marry and then…
By Jonathon Van Maren As religious communities wait with bated breath for the Supreme Court of the United States to deliver a ruling on Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a case that will determine whether bakers and other creators are permitted to refuse to use their talents in the service of an event…
By Jonathon Van Maren Many of you have been following the case of British Columbia’s Trinity Western University for quite some time. With Canadian law societies claiming that law students from a university with Christian principles would be too warped and bigoted by those principles to practice law in Canadian society, the case winding its…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few people have asked me, every now and again, why I still bother to occasionally respond to Michael Coren’s incoherent attacks on Canadian Christians, considering that he isn’t taken much seriously and that the liberal denominations he champions are dying off at a rapid clip. My answer is two-fold: First…
By Jonathon Van Maren Pride Month erupted across North America with more fanfare than usual this year, with the Left strangling itself with the noose of intersectionality and once-celebratory marches devolving into brawls between Black Lives Matter, trans activists, and even pro-Palestinian marchers, who successfully got the Jews kicked out of Chicago’s “Dyke March.” Understandably,…
By Jonathon Van Maren This is Part II of my review of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. Part I can be found here. One of the reasons I found Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option so fascinating is that the more I read, the more his proposal sounded precisely…
By Jonathon Van Maren The release of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation last month marks the arrival of a book hotly debated in Christian circles since long before its publication. Rod Dreher, the author of wonderful books such as The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern…