The Chicken of the Sea: A Modern Tale of Fear, Failure, and Cowardice
Albert Mohler

What are we to do with Captain Schettino? He will go down in history as an example of miserable failure, dereliction of duty, radical cowardice, and the collapse of manhood. He failed to do what any man in his position would be expected to do. He even refused a direct command to take up his duty, once he had abandoned it.

Trust-Busting and Trusting in the Administrative State
Public Discourse, Michael Fragoso

The Obama administration’s efforts to regulate the cellular-phone service market through a decades-old trust-busting ideology is at odds with the courts’ more recent “new learning” approach to market competition. And there are lessons here for pro-lifers.

Flood of ‘de-baptisms’ worries European church leaders

“The movement is happening across Europe,” said Anne Morelli, who heads a center studying religion and secularity at the Free University of Brussels. “It was very apparent during 2011 — in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Austria. It is obviously related to the scandals of pedophile priests, but it has been going on for some time.”

Moving Pro-Life Legislation Forward: The Need for Prudence and Civility
The Gospel Coalition, Jay Watts and Scott Klusendorf

Johnson and others like him reject most incremental legislation and instead support state personhood amendments—which seek to outlaw abortion by declaring the unborn “persons” from conception. As one such advocate once told us, personhood is the only way position that isn’t morally compromised since all incremental legislation ends with “and you can kill the baby.”