Sierra Faith

The Anchoress continues her Advent blogging.
Don’t you just love G. K. Chesterton?
The self is more distant than any star…

From the National Review Online:
If you believe that churches and synagogues, priests and rabbis won’t eventually be sued for their statements on sexuality, you’re kidding yourself. Chai Feldblum, a Georgetown University law professor and gay activist who helps draft federal legislation related to sexual orientation, says that, when religious liberty conflicts with gay rights, “I’m [...]

John Mark Reynolds:
Having experienced the Great Depression, my strong, West Virginian grandmothers would put it this way: hard times can be good for us. Though many people curse tough economic times, my grandmothers knew to be thankful, and expected God to use them to be the tutor for deeper internal lessons in virtue.

When will we simply tell the anti-8 children to grow up?
If a privileged minority kicks up a temper tantrum, are they allowed to overturn the will of the majority?
In California, maybe:
The citizens of California voted and decided that they want their state constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. Well, [...]

As articulately as Jonah Goldberg:
There are all sorts of legitimate positions on all sides of these issues and I don’t necessarily agree with the conventional religious right view on all of them. And as a committed federalist, I’d like to see most if not all of them settled as locally as possible. But I think [...]

Richard John Neuhaus:
The focus is on FOCA, the Freedom of Choice Act, that Obama says he wants to sign on his first day in office. This act would eliminate the very modest restraints and regulations established by states, provide government funding for abortions, and in its present form, require religiously sponsored hospitals and clinics to [...]

This time from the Anti-8 terrorists:
This fortnight-long temper tantrum certainly won’t help the anti-8 cause when the inevitable referendum appears to reverse the constitutional amendment Californians added in this election. I’d expect to see that on the ballot every two years from now on, but if its backers keep acting like lunatics, they can [...]

Welcome to the new America.
While this day of reckoning has been coming since the 1930s, Obama deftly used the redistribution of wealth theme to make unthinking Americans believe Big Government will take care of them from cradle to grave.
They do not know (or care) that they implicitly forfeit liberty in such an exchange.
But, those of [...]

Michelle Malkin yells for us to wake up as we watch our rights trickle away:
Look at what they’re doing in Oregon to licensed concealed weapons owners. . . .
We live in a country where convicted illegal alien felons have more privacy rights than law-abiding gun owners.
Insane.

Please:
The 1963 school-prayer and Bible-reading decision, Murray v. Curlett, startled some believers into activism, but it was not until Roe v. Wade that evangelicals awakened from their Pietist slumbers and launched a crusade to win back America. Once energized, evangelicals were not content to remain narrowly anti-abortion, but sought to promote religiously grounded positions on [...]