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The End of Natural Parenthood

KATY FAUST

In the ten years since Obergefell, one legal safeguard after another elevating the parent-child relationship has been inverted or erased. Courts and legislatures downgraded the biological connection between all parents and children.

Trump and the Churches

PETER J. LEITHART

It would be tragic if support for Trump became a test of orthodoxy or heresy. Devoted to genuine first things, the church should be a place where disagreements about second things can be hashed out charitably.

The AI Cheating Epidemic

JEREMY S. ADAMS

When students get caught red-handed, they don’t blush. They certainly don’t apologize or offer any authentic excuses. There is no sense that what they are doing is immoral. At best it’s amoral.

Parents Are Not Their Children’s Authors

LEAH LIBRESCO SARGEANT

The whole world is clamoring with the question: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Fewer and fewer parents can rest in the peace of hearing Christ’s answer: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.”

Do Christians Even Care About the Ten Commandments Anymore?

CARL R. TRUEMAN

The movement to display the Ten Commandments in public spaces is no doubt driven by a desire to promote character. What sane person, after all, would want to live in a society where killing people, committing adultery, and telling lies are regarded as normative?