The Story:  “Does Faith = Hate?” by Rod Dreher writing for The American Conservative. The Lead:  “A consensus is emerging on the right that the most important goal at this stage is not to stop gay marriage entirely but to secure as much liberty as possible for dissenting religious and social conservatives while there is still...

  By Derick Dickens With Biblical Literacy at an all-time low in the United States, I often find myself wanting to cringe when an editorial asks, “What would Jesus do?” The most recent cringe came when the editorial page asked if it is a Christian virtue to be transgendered.  These questions came during a recent...

The Story: “Some Businesses Balk at Gay Weddings,” by Nathan Koppel and Ashby Jones writing at the Wall Street Journal The Lead:“Religious-rights advocates argue that the Constitution affords people the right to abstain from a ceremony that violates their religious beliefs. ‘It’s an evisceration of our freedom of association'” said John Eastman, the chairman of...

Heath Lambert.  Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013).  176 pp.  $14.99. By Godwin Sathianathan For six years I had the privilege of working with college students on Michigan State University’s campus. The topic of sexual temptation and pornography would inevitably come up as I counseled and discipled young...

The Story: “Birth Control and the Boss’s Religious Views,” editorial board of the New York Times. The Lead: “Allowing employees to make independent decisions to obtain contraceptives does not violate anyone’s religious freedom. If the Supreme Court takes up these cases, it should soundly reject the warped view that some employers can get out of...

By Todd Leonard   I have heard it no less than several hundred times in the past ten years.  No doubt, it is always well-meaning and well-intended, and comes from a multitude of choruses, but the assertion leaves me a little perplexed, and, truth be told, somewhat discouraged. The refrain usually sounds something like this:...