From the December issue: The ordination of women bishops in 2014 caused no great disruption. Nor will the enthronement of a woman as primate of all England. If there is damage to unity, it will be caused by the issue of homosexuality.
From the December issue: I used to like Carlson. A lot. I found him joyful and fierce and committed to the great American cause. Then something went terribly wrong.
From the November issue: As homosexuality was normalized, the importance of Halloween to gay culture faded. The sexual revolution made carnivalesque transgression part of the normative order. As far as sex goes, every day is Halloween.
AI-generated content will stress-test Christian arguments against porn. Appeals to porn’s exploitive character will not work in a world in which the characters on the screen are fake. “This is somebody’s child” will have to become, “You are somebody’s child.”
Wendell Berry’s description of marriage “involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed” works—right up until it doesn’t, usually when children and their needs get added to the mix.