Jeanie Hannaman

March 31, 2025

Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in America, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - When Donald Trump entered office, he faced a number of choices that had confronted the last three Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. They all had the choice to either shrink government and reduce deficits or slow government growth while cutting taxes... They had the choice of using American power to restore deterrence by invading belligerents (e.g., Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan) or targeting enemies without deploying ground troops to change governments.

March 31, 2025

Churches Put Up Feeble Fight as British Island Blazes a Trail in Killing Terminally Ill, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - Humanists and atheists are reveling in victory as an island known for its Celtic Christian heritage has become the first nation in the British Isles to legalize killing terminally ill adults... On Tuesday, the Isle of Man parliament passed the euphemistically named Assisted Dying Bill, first introduced by medical doctor and politician Alex Allinson in June 2002, after feeble opposition from the ecumenical Churches Alive in Mann failed to rally the backing needed to defeat it.

March 31, 2025

Does the Synod’s ‘Ecclesial Assembly’ Mirror Anglicanism’s Model and Undermine Episcopal Authority? by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register - “In the absence of the authority of an Anglican magisterium, or episcopal leadership, theological reflection gave way to the secular Zeitgeist,” he said. “The spirit of the age triumphed in every contest. Synodality and democracy proved to be just a means of replacing the wisdom of holiness with a politicization of relativistic ethics and power politics.”

March 31, 2025

My Palestinian Friends Taught Me How to Combat Anti-Semitism, by Jason Jones

By Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine - I didn’t set out to learn about anti-Semitism from Palestinians. But I did... My organization the Vulnerable People Project has worked for years to serve vulnerable communities everywhere, from Afghanistan to Chinese-occupied East Turkestan to Nigeria to Gaza. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the first step to defending the vulnerable is to see them clearly... A characteristic event that makes a group of people vulnerable occurs when the powerful elites of the world turn their backs on them and even make it socially costly to stand with them.