It is a peculiar affliction of modern discourse that the more self-evident a moral truth becomes, the more elaborate and disingenuous the attempts to subvert it must be. Nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the case of abortion. Once a matter of whispered euphemisms and reluctant concessions, the issue has undergone a grotesque […]
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Episcopal Ego: How Mariann Budde’s Pulpit Politics Betray the Church’s Sacred Mission
Permit me to reflect, in the briefest of moments, on the recent kerfuffle surrounding this Episcopalian preacher, Mariann Budde, who, by her own calculations, has adjudged her thirty-seconds of fame worth the price of both decorum and propriety. The stage, or rather the pulpit, on which she chose to perform her soliloquy was one of […]