Narrative is a powerful element—one that allows us to moralize history and ourselves within it, while weaving in elements of reality. But if there are principles deeper than events and our own experience, and if competing tribal outlooks on the world aren't going to characterize our future, we need to seek absolute Truth.
In the midst of America’s political fatigue and shortfalls, the person and teachings of Jesus are refreshing because he transcends the socio-political arena, speaking directly to our flaws as individuals and as a culture.
"My vote is not only a tool of political calculation, it is my personal moral and political affirmation."
For lack of a true vision of whom to become, millions of guys within our generation are ensnared by “fake war” and “fake love.”
Politics do matter. But if we truly wish to "make America great again," we must remember Whom we are under.
What does it mean to call something figuratively “backwards?” This term makes sense in the fields of technology or economics, but how about as a moral category? Today’s progressives fight to “move forward” and chide restraining legislation or ideas or leaders as “backwards,” but this moral classification is often not sustainable.
“Everybody chill out...can’t we just get along?” This was the gut of John Kasich’s remarks regarding the controversial HB-2 legislation passed in North Carolina.
Every year, the night before Easter, a group of students paint the walls under the bridge on Campus Drive with the words, “CHRIST IS RISEN” and the verse Matthew 28:6 next to art depicting a cross and an open tomb.
Whenever the Supreme Court of the United States passes down a ruling that upsets people’s moral intuitions, a question arises: will this verdict clearly establish a right and a wrong side of history and gradually be accepted by the American people?
Duke’s campus is driven by pain, a fair amount of which arises from race-related issues. America has a bad track record on race—from slavery until the 1860’s to progressivist eugenics in the 1910-20’s to Jim Crow through the 1960’s.
