Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – Feminism

Feminism is no longer a niche academic theory or a movement confined to protest marches. It has become one of the most powerful cultural forces shaping law, education, family life, workplace policy, and even the way Americans understand human identity itself. That alone makes it a critical issue for voters. What began as a campaign…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – The Family

The family is not a niche issue, a private lifestyle preference, or a sentimental talking point reserved for holidays and greeting cards. It is the most basic social institution in any civilization and the primary mechanism by which moral norms, economic stability, and social trust are transmitted from one generation to the next. When families…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – Welfare Programs

Before examining partisan positions, the term welfare programs must be defined carefully. Sloppy definitions lead to sloppy thinking, and sloppy thinking leads to bad policy. In contemporary political debate, the word “welfare” is often used imprecisely to refer to any government benefit, which obscures meaningful distinctions between social insurance, entitlement programs, and means-tested assistance. Defining…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – Religious Liberty

Religious liberty is not a side issue in American life. It is one of the load-bearing pillars of the constitutional order, and when it weakens, the entire structure of a free society begins to creak. The Founders did not treat religious freedom as a hobby right or a private eccentricity. They treated it as a…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – China Foreign Policy

American foreign policy toward China is no longer an abstract concern reserved for diplomats, think tanks, or defense analysts. It has become a kitchen-table issue that affects jobs, prices, national security, religious liberty, and America’s long-term survival as a free and sovereign nation. For this reason alone, China policy deserves careful attention from American voters.…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: K-12 Public Education

Public education is not a narrow policy dispute. It sits at the crossroads of culture, economics, parental authority, national cohesion, and the future moral imagination of the country. Few institutions touch more Americans more directly or more persistently than the public school system. Over fifty million children attend public K–12 schools each year, and nearly…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – Abortion

Abortion is not a peripheral policy dispute. It is one of the most morally serious, socially consequential, and politically divisive issues in American life. Unlike debates over tax rates, regulatory policy, or even foreign affairs, abortion directly concerns the deliberate ending of developing human life. For this reason alone, it commands sustained attention from voters…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Energy Policy

Energy policy is not an abstract debate reserved for economists, environmental activists, or politicians in Washington. It reaches directly into the daily life of every American household. Energy determines the price of gasoline at the pump, the cost of heating a home in winter, the reliability of the electrical grid during summer heat waves, the…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: The Second Amendment

The Second Amendment is not a niche or technical policy question. It is one of the most emotionally charged, philosophically revealing, and politically consequential issues in American public life. Few topics more clearly expose the differences between how Americans understand liberty, government authority, public safety, and human nature itself. For voters, the Second Amendment functions…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Crime and Punishment

Crime and punishment sit near the foundation of any functioning civilization. Long before debates over taxation, healthcare, or environmental policy arise, a society must answer a basic question: Will law-abiding citizens be protected, and will wrongdoing be punished fairly and consistently? If the answer is unclear or evasive, everything else begins to wobble. For American…

Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Cannabis Legalization

Cannabis legalization has moved from the political margins to the center of American public debate in little more than two decades. What was once treated almost exclusively as a criminal justice matter is now discussed in terms of personal liberty, public health, state revenue, social equity, and federalism. Today, marijuana policy affects tens of millions…

Book Review: Created in God’s Image by Anthony A. Hoekema

Created in God’s Image by Anthony A. Hoekema is more than a theological treatise on biblical anthropology—it is a robust defense of the dignity, nature, and divine purpose of human beings made in the image of God. This book is a thoughtful and reverent exploration of who man is, why man matters, and how man…

How Should a Christian view Taxation?

“Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s.” These words from Jesus in Matthew 22:21 are often quoted when the subject of taxation arises in Christian circles. But in our modern age—when governments not only build roads and defend borders but also fund abortion clinics, gender transitions for minors, and drag…

Defending Manhood—the Truth about the Woke “Toxic Masculinity” Smear

In today’s cultural discourse, few terms are wielded with as much venom and imprecision as “toxic masculinity.” Popularized by progressive academics and amplified by corporate media, the phrase has come to represent everything wrong with traditional manhood—assertiveness, strength, leadership, competitiveness, and even stoicism. The assumption is clear: masculinity is a problem that must be fixed.…

The Biblical Rejection of Gay Marriage and Homosexuality

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a narrow 5–4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, declaring that same-sex couples possess a constitutional right to marry under the 14th Amendment. This watershed moment in American legal and cultural history did not arise from democratic consensus, moral clarity, or faithful jurisprudence. It…

Transgender Suicide – Untangling the Myths, the Medicine, and the Mind Through a Biblical Lens

Few issues in contemporary discourse are as emotionally charged and politically weaponized as the topic of transgender suicide. Activists, politicians, medical institutions, and media outlets often repeat dire warnings: unless society affirms transgender identities and provides medical transitions—even to children—lives will be lost. “Affirm or suicide” has become the rallying cry of the modern transgender…