Despite school follies, hope of public persists

By David Tulis I am encouraging myself not to be surprised at the persistence of confidence in the state. It is more than realism. It is more than pragmatism. It goes beyond the bright fruit of university graduation. It’s a religion. The faith in the modern state in many respects is buckling. Poll numbers show […]

Detached retina case: Judge blind to federalism, gay theory blurs equality

A federal judge orders the state to yield to 3 guy-guy and gal-gal couples. By David Tulis The rulings in U.S. district courts against state constitutions that define marriage as being between one man and one woman are a form of proposed blindness that the judges expect will be imposed on the citizens of the […]

What the dads wrote on the brown napkin

[Originally published in August 2012. — DJT] By James Hindman Christian dads, especially homeschoolers, place a huge burden on the shoulders of their wives. Each morning most of us leave our often chaotic home with its timetables, unit studies, book laden tables for the quiet confines of our offices or place of employment. Many of […]

Unpaid moral debts of DesJarlais reflect unpayable IOUs of the people

Dr. Scott DesJarlais, as seen on his re-election website, looks over an X-ray of a patient in Jasper, Tenn. By David Tulis The re-election of federal Rep. Scott DesJarlais to an East Tennessee district puts us in mind of the Massachusetts Body of Liberties that the Puritan founders in the colonies drafted in the 1640s […]

Insane criminal verdicts; or how Christianity lost cultural influence

The visit in Chattanooga on Monday of Mohandas Gandhi’s grandson was covered in the local newspaper under a story on the same page, B1, about a man pleading guilty to the strangulation death of his son. When I read the stories in the Chattanooga Times Free Press I couldn’t avoid considering the state of Christianity […]

Christians feel besieged as school system secularization whines ahead

News coverage over the past two months has focused much on Christian prayers at public events. By David Tulis The South’s strong cultural Christianity comes from its Protestant heritage and the influence of reformed theology, particularly the many Scottish Presbyterians who fled religious persecution. This theological heritage explains the region’s resistance to federal armies in […]

The nobility of dissent; we say no to status quo, urge alternative

I am thinking today about the 193-page court opinion on Obamacare — National Federation of Independent Business vs. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services — and how to avoid adding to the cloud of commentary that many worthies have offered. But before I can take the hours to read it, I give a […]