Society
UNGA 80 : Why European Recognition of Palestine Is a Gift to Islamism
As the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) convenes tomorrow and runs through Sept. 23, the air is thick with the familiar rhetoric of peace, development, and human rights. Yet, in a profound irony, this gathering is…
This Grandparents’ Day, Resolve to Leave a Spiritual Legacy
When my seven-year-old grandson, Oliver, learned I had recently broken my arm, he created a sympathy card for me. “Get well soon!” he wrote in wobbly, crayoned letters. Below was a picture he’d drawn of me: One of my arms is lying on the ground…
Comfort: The False Standard – The Stream
America is accustomed to comfort. Russian-exiled prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn commented in the late 1970s that America was soft because the people were spoiled. He questioned whether we would have the moral resolve to stand up to the…
How Did We End Up with Hundreds of Thousands of Embryos Frozen in Limbo?
Christians accepted the contraceptive mentality. By The Ruth Institute Published on September 6, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQwDOHLqhI In this episode of The Dr. J Show, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse welcomes Elizabeth Kirk, a…
Agnostic Cofounder of Wikipedia Converts to Traditional Anglicanism
Larry Sanger, Wikipedia’s agnostic cofounder, is converting to Traditional Anglicanism. The analytic philosopher, who previously identified as a “devotee of rationality” and “methodological skepticism,” said he will be joining the Anglican…
Won’t You Dance to My Tune, Lord?
Jesus rebukes the crowds in Matthew’s gospel: “To what shall I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you…
Will New York Be Run by Qatar? The Mamdani Question
The race for New York’s mayor should be about crime, housing, transit, and the future of America’s greatest city. Instead, it now carries the shadow of foreign money, specifically Qatari influence, through the privileged life and political…
‘A Secular Jesus Follower’ – The Stream
By Peter Demos Published on September 5, 2025 In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, Peter Demos sits down with Tom Krattenmaker, award-winning author and long-time USA Today columnist, to explore his unique identity as a “secular…
Pope Leo’s LGBT Strategy Sparks Tradcon Catholic Civil War—a Bergoglian Dream!
The Roman Empire employed the strategy of divide et impera (divide and conquer) to control the world. The blueprint was so successful that the British Empire used it to rule India — manipulating and exploiting antagonisms within its already…
Here Come the Janeites – The Stream
I am attending an afternoon tea with friends in Brunswick, Maryland, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth withs scones, cucumber sandwiches, and pastries. We are surrounded by dozens of other “Janeites,” as Austen fans call…