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One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough

By Glenn Branch

…rtain, to adopt euphemistic expressions to hide and soften its impact, to teach it only as one alternative theory, to leave it for advanced courses where the multitudes cannot encounter it, or, if it is dealt with at all in a school or a high school biology course, to present it as unobtrusively and near the end of the course as possible.” Muller’s address was entitled “One Hundred Years without Darwinism Are Enough.” Now is a good opportunity to…

George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook

By Patricia Miller

…John XXIII called this “new springtime” for the church, as Catholicism instead sees a winter—at least in the West. George Weigel, a senior fellow at the right-wing Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of Witness to Hope, the bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, gives us his answer to that question in his latest book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II. Despite his long history of conservative activism, Weigel attemp…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…y contextualize Johnson’s shocking past statements that continued to make headlines (despite his team’s frenzied efforts to scrub his digital footprint) with the little-known theological tradition that informs and influences it: Christian Reconstructionism, dominion theology—the dream of an American theocracy. Click on the image to learn more about Dominionism. Fortunately, scholars and journalists like Fred Clarkson, Sara Diamond, Julie Ingersoll…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…. I don’t think you’re tough enough to make me.” COLMES: But are you then teaching a child, this is the way you deal with conflict resolution, with the hand, with the paddle? This is how you resolve—is that a lesson you want to teach kids? DOBSON: Absolutely. That’s yielding to authority. You know, all of life is like this. I mean, a child crawls out over the edge of a high chair. He learns all about gravity in one lesson. He pulls a dog’s tail, a…