Charlie Kirk worked tirelessly to model the civil disagreement and thoughtful engagement necessary for the preservation of the Republic. He showed all of us how to keep our democracy vibrant. America is a better place because of his efforts.
If there's no Creator, there's no endowment. And if there's no endowment, your "rights" are just revocable privileges on loan from whoever currently holds power.
From my new essay on the Declaration's Preamble and its connection to the Christian natural law tradition in @Christ_OverAll's July series on America's 250th.
https://t.co/Xt5rcRO7eS
My high-school science textbook did more to establish a religion—naturalism, presumed as the normative explanation for the origin of the universe—than any Texas public schoolchild reading Exodus, Proverbs, and Luke ever will.
"Politics will only be over when Jesus comes and establishes the fullness of his reign. Until then, the most fundamental question for Christians is if we're faithful."
"If you care about the shaping of society, if you care about righteous laws, if you care about whether unborn human life is going to be defended or expended, if you care about the definition of marriage, guess what? You're political."
@SarahBloomin8r@timburchett Welcome to Knoxville Sarah! Here is the local election website with early voting locations: https://t.co/FWrKRBWDKz
Make sure to vote for the only conservative in the race for Mayor, Betsy Henderson.
Sen. Josh Hawley's (@HawleyMO) word to American Christian pastors: "Jesus is Lord over all. Don't buy the lie that you need to keep the gospel shut up within the walls of your church. There is no such gospel."
From our In the Library conversation. Link: https://t.co/e15oLgr6RO
More fantastic news for Tennesseans coming out of the Republican-led State House!
Every student in Tennessee deserves access to a world-class education that fits their needs.
Thank you to every member who voted to make certain that no family has to win the lottery in order to have a say in their child’s education. As your next Governor, expanding school choice will be one of my top priorities.
Christians need to wise up and recognize the irreconcilable collision course this nation is on with the ideological project of progressivism. What we saw today—ideologically deranged activists intruding into a church, frightening children, and intimidating worshipers—is not a bug; it’s a feature of a diseased worldview fueled by lawlessness and abetted by feckless rulers that must be decisively defeated. Politics is not meant to change hearts—it's meant to order society by promoting the good and putting protesters like this in jail.
The only way out is through.
Communism and Christianity stand at fundamentally irreconcilable odds because they rest on rival accounts of the human person, freedom, and authority.
Where Christ sets man free—liberating the conscience from sin and ordering freedom toward truth and love—communism operates by coercion, subordinating the individual to the collective and enforcing conformity through compulsion. Christianity understands freedom as moral and spiritual: the capacity to live in accordance with reality as God has made it. Communism, by contrast, treats freedom as a problem to be managed, something to be engineered away in the pursuit of an abstract vision of equality.
At the heart of the conflict is authority. Christianity locates ultimate authority in God, limits the claims of the state, and affirms the dignity of the person as prior to political power. Communism collapses those distinctions. It absolutizes the state, denies transcendent moral limits, and reduces persons to economic units whose worth is measured by their utility to the system. Where Christianity calls for voluntary charity, communism mandates redistribution. Where Christianity relies on conversion of the heart, communism relies on force. Where Christianity produces ordered liberty, communism produces fear, surveillance, and dependency.
This is not merely a historical observation but a philosophical one. Christianity can survive persecution because it appeals to conscience; communism cannot survive dissent because it demands total unbending allegiance. One is built on grace and truth; the other on power and control. The two are not competing paths to the same end. They are rival moral universes and they point in opposite directions.
Unity is good, but truth is better. And sometimes, truth divides.
Why does this happen so much more on the right than on the left? Because the left is seeking to destroy - the church, the family, the West - and destruction requires little agreement. Use whatever tool you want, however you want. Just take it down.
But, on the right, we’re seeking to build something. And when you’re building something, you have to agree on a lot. What are you building? What materials should you use? Which tools? And, most importantly, what’s our foundation?
As Christians, we hold that the foundation of any flourishing civilization is that we were created in the image of a God whose power transcends the government’s. He alone is the giver of rights and the determinant of right and wrong.
We can’t compromise on that, because without that truth, nothing else in conservatism holds together.
Our job isn’t to compromise on our foundation for the sake of “unity.” It’s to do everything we can to pull people over to our side—to what’s good, right, and true.
Nationally, nearly 200,000 students with disabilities are participating in private #SchoolChoice programs. Congress should make special education choice a legislative priority https://t.co/D9b2PxlBfW
Charlie Kirk, Voddie Baucham, John MacArthur, Phil Robertson, James Dobson. God has added some incredible titans to heaven’s roster this year. But, man, what a loss for us
In loving memory of Charlie Kirk, a fearless patriot & man of unwavering faith who dedicated his life to America.
"It's bigger than you, I want you to remember that... It's bigger than me - you are here to make somebody else's life better, the pursuit of liberty & freedom."❤️
It’s amazing how fast ‘what’s right for kids’ gets tossed aside when the status quo needs defending.
My latest in the Tennessean: https://t.co/XYbNFo4WTC
School Choice is an Idea Whose Time Has Come! Thank you to @SenateGOP and my friend Former Education Secretary @BetsyDeVos for your Tireless Efforts to Expand Parental Choice in Education for Every American Family!📚🇺🇸