News
Moravian Easter: An NC tradition older than our nation
During World War II, the sunrise service at Home Moravian was broadcast globally via the Armed Forces Radio Network.
News
Is Christianity on the rise among Gen Z?
Those noticing more people — especially younger faces — filling the pews at church lately, aren't imagining things.
Opinion
The remarkable legacy of Billy Graham
Public interest in the ministry of Billy Graham was rekindled this month with the historic unveiling of his 7-foot-tall bronze statue in the United States Capitol.
Opinion
Reflections on the free market from a Cold War-influenced Christian
One of the most vivid memories from my youth is watching the FB-111s, B-52s, and B-1 bombers take off and land. I’m sure I saw an SR-71 land once, but it was dark. My dad flew the KC-135 air refuelers, and I’d ride around with him in the Strategic Air Command (SAC) vans when permitted...
Opinion
In defense of private Christian schools
Every year, private schools across the nation commence for graduation ceremonies. Yet, if many of today’s progressive educators are to be believed, the ceremony they participate in ought to be abolished or sent underground. They wish for public schools to be the primary—and in some activists’ view, exclusive—vehicle for educating our youth. Indeed, whenever the...
Opinion
How politics has replaced religion in America
America has always been more religiously devout than other Western democracies. But now, like them, it has begun to secularize rapidly. And, as religion has declined, political ideology has intensified, society has fragmented, and cultural common ground has disintegrated. As a result, politics is increasingly divisive and existentially fraught. For over three decades, debates about...
Opinion
Mark Robinson understands that politics solves very little
Mark Robinson was rewarded by conservative voters for having the courage to take a deep dive into the culture wars. Most years, Republicans barely got their toes wet. Many Republicans believed the path to electoral success was to focus solely on economic issues while largely ignoring the left’s long march through the institutions. As long...
Opinion
Combined teach-in will focus on the fight against ‘fundamentalisms’
“Women Fight Fundamentalisms: Before and After September 11th” will be the topic of a two-day “teach-in” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. The teach-in will build upon the national consensus forged on Sept. 11 against the extremist, militant interpretation of Islam wielded by the terrorist al-Qu’eda organization, Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban. That aberration of Islam is particularly vicious in its treatment of women. The topic of the teach-in is not, however, limited to the fight against that “fundamentalist” version of Islam by women. As the title clearly indicates, the topic is women fighting “fundamentalisms” (plural).
