They are phrases that will leave a mark on Western culture for many years to come: Enemy combatant. Public safety exceptions. Detainees. Guantanamo Bay. Even as debate took place in the United States about whether suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be tried as a civilian or an enemy combatant,…  [more]

In December, the world was shocked by reports of a brutal gang rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi. The young girl eventually died from her injuries, prompting massive protests, outrage and demands for justice among the Indian public. In response, the Indian government amended its penal…  [more]

Two mainstream media outlets – the National Review Online and Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish – recently applied Christian ethics to the gun-violence debate, to very different results. Over at the National Review, David French argues that we have an obligation to protect things like human life - even if we…  [more]

There was another amusing interview on The Colbert Report last night, this time about an awfully serious subject: the death penalty. Exonerated ex-prisoner Kirk Bloodsworth, Advocacy Director of Witness to Innocence, was on the satirical news show to talk about his efforts to abolish the death penalty across the United…  [more]

When I was growing up, the only thing that could be said about clothing was that it should be “modest” and not too “worldly.” Modesty was proof-texted from 1 Timothy 2:9: “I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls…  [more]