EPPC is kicking off its end of year campaign a week from today on #GivingTuesday and I’d like to ask now that you plan to join us with a fully tax-deductible gift by December 31st.
As last week’s Senate vote to advance the Respect for Marriage Act demonstrates, we live in an era deeply confused about human dignity, identity, and flourishing.
Just consider, secular progressivism denies the right to life of an entire class of persons based on age… it denies male and female embodiment… it drives God from the public square… and now it threatens to wield the power of the state against religious institutions, non-profits, and individuals who believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.
But despite these discouraging trends, we will not lose hope or abandon our crucial mission.
Through our work shaping public policy and culture, EPPC remains committed to reaffirming the truth and dignity of each person, and to cultivating a society ordered toward the full flourishing of human beings.
Indeed, this work is more important than ever, and with Giving Tuesday a week away, I hope you will partner with us to continue advancing our mission in 2023.
You can read below to see some of our significant publications from the past few days, as an example of the vital work EPPC is doing to renew our country.
I wish you and your family a blessed Thanksgiving.
Will Senate Republicans Display Courage and Uphold Truth?
Ryan T. Anderson and Rep. Chip Roy FOX News
In late July, the House of Representatives gaveled in and, within hours, rushed through legislation that purported to "codify the findings of Obergefell v. Hodges and its 2015 redefinition of marriage.
Rather than defend the institution of marriage, many Republicans chose to run for the hills – calling the move a political stunt, opting to criticize only the absence of regular order or a semblance of the legislative process in lieu of defending a basic natural truth.
Worse yet, Senate Republicans seem even more bent on surrendering than before the election, when a handful of Republican senators announced their support for redefining marriage. Now a window-dressing compromise amendment that simply restates that people of faith have existing religious liberty and conscience protections in the Constitution and federal law threatens to provide the 60 votes necessary for passage.
"The Supreme Court's decision in Obergefellcut short the democratic process, and voting to affirm this act of judicial overreach would give the Biden administration a quick win and demoralize socially conservative voters," argues Patrick T. Brown in Newsweek.
In WORLD Opinions, Andrew T. Walker reflects on the long march of same-sex marriage through our institutions and exhorts his readers to stay in the fight to protect the truth of conjugal marriage and created order.
Patients have suffered as the agency of the attending physician was replaced with the diffused decision-making process of the "hospitalist" doctor. Devorah Goldman's latest for Side Effects asks whether this swap was so unavoidable as is usually assumed.
The U.N. Climate Summit established a global 'loss and damage fund' for poor nations affected by climate change. Henry Olsen warns in his Washington Post column that, based on sober consideration of voter behavior, this policy could lead to significant populist backlash.
Religious Liberty and the Common Good: A Debate Between Jonathan Leeman and Brad Littlejohn
How can we stand up for authentic religious liberty in an age of license and moral chaos? And on what basis should we advocate in the public square for policies that protect the church? Different Protestant traditions have offered sharply different understandings of the relationship between individual conscience, the institutional church, and the responsibility of civil government. Brad Littlejohn debates Jonathan Leeman, editorial director for 9Marks and adjunct professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Reformed Theological Seminary.
On November 12-14th in Cap-Ferrat, France, EPPC’s Faith Angle Europe forum convened 12 leading European journalists, six US journalists, and six religious scholars and clerics for engaging discussions about religion and conflict in Ukraine, growing challenges to Western liberal democratic order, and the rise of China. Please visit the event website for a list of speakers and participants as well as upcoming footage and transcripts.
