Jake Meiss
Can equality exist in a society that encourages pride? June is pride month—a celebration which began as “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month,” quickly became “LGBT pride month”, and is now “LGBTQ+ month” as more and more identities have been included over the years. It’s part of a wider movement that is said to be fighting […]
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Last week Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sent a letter to local media outlets offering sit-down interviews exclusively to black and brown journalists. “By now, you may have heard the news that on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as Mayor of this great City, I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with […]
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Our apology-ridden society is a sign of moral breakdown, not progress.
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I think there’s a fundamental paradox surrounding the efficaciousness of politics in a post-truth society. By post-truth I mean a culture that has an increasing indifference towards facts and evidence in favor of emotional appeals and personal experience. That our society in general and our politics in particular can be accurately described as post-truth seems […]
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The increasing division and hostility in American politics has become a hot topic as of late. It’s become apparent that we’re more politically polarized than ever before. But I think the nature of the division has been misunderstood. Many people still think of American politics as a battle between the left and the right, but […]
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What is currently going on when it comes to the topic of police and racism is nothing short of mass delusion. And I don’t mean that in a pejorative sense, I mean it quite literally. A large percentage of people in this country have come to firmly hold beliefs that are contradicted both by reality […]
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A couple of years ago it dawned on me that my theological views implied that my life was basically meaningless. It was pretty straightforward. I knew that A) everyone would spend eternity either in heaven or in hell, and B) Everyone in heaven would experience a state of equal bliss while those in hell would […]
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In 1882 the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously declared “God is dead… and we have killed him.” The “we” he spoke of were the other Enlightenment thinkers who ushered in an age of reason and rationality that sought to undermine traditional forms of religious belief. The dawn of scientific inquiry, they thought, suddenly rendered belief […]
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We live in a time where people are very aware of our societal problems. Discussions about lowering the poverty rate, helping the homeless, reducing racial inequality, curbing discrimination, improving education, reducing crime, etc. have become commonplace. And there’s a long list of complex programs, policies, and large-scale social engineering being proposed as solutions to these […]
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What did Easter mean to Jesus? We talk a lot about what Easter means to us but what did Jesus Himself think He was accomplishing on Easter Sunday? It’s an important question because it reveals a problem: There has become a large discrepancy between what Easter means to modern Christians and what it originally meant […]
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