Category: On Race
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Moral Confusion in Modern Times: A Rebuke of False Equivalence
The Event and Its Distorted Message In August, outside an Arlington County School Board meeting in Virginia, a small protest formed over a proposal to restrict transgender students from using bathrooms that do not align with their biological sex. Among the counter-protesters stood a man holding a hand-drawn sign that read, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t…
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On Racism: A Response to a Race Hustler
“Americans believe in the reality of ‘race’ as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism–the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce and destroy them–inevitably follows from this inalterable condition… But race is the child of racism, not the father.” Ta-Nehisi Coates. Between the World and Me. (New…
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A Misguided Comparison: A Biblical Perspective on Justice Jackson’s Analogy
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s comparison of laws prohibiting child sex changes to historical bans on interracial marriage is both logically and morally flawed. While the intention may have been to highlight perceived discrimination, such an analogy fails to hold up under scrutiny. Approaching the matter with both Biblical wisdom and human compassion, this essay demonstrates…
Seeking Truth in Today's Troubled World 