In our blog, read about the political and cultural issues affecting Tennesseans written from a conservative perspective. Commentaries are typically written by David Fowler, an attorney who served in the Tennessee state Senate for 12 years before joining FACT as President.
Making Pride Month Meaningful No. 4: Pride and Boasting
Jun 28, 2024 by David Fowler
The response of many Christians to Pride Month, which is coming to a close, is something to the effect that God hates pride, and no doubt the Bible says that. The Bible also speaks a lot about boasting. I began to look at the meaning of the words &ld...
Making Pride Month Meaningful, No. 3: How Love and Law Go Together
Jun 21, 2024 by David Fowler
If our society is going to celebrate Pride Month, can we jettison bumper-sticker conservations like “Love is Love” and “God hates Pride” for something more meaningful? Here’s my suggestion for a conversation starter: In ...
Making Pride Month Meaningful: Using it to Expose My Prideful Understanding of Love
Jun 14, 2024 by David Fowler
Christians often smirk at the silliness of the tautology associated with Pride Month—"Love is Love.” No doubt it lacks any meaning and expresses nothing about the purpose of love or to what (or who) love should be directed. But like ...
If there’s going to be a Pride Month, let’s make it meaningful.
Jun 6, 2024 by David Fowler
June is “Pride Month,” and the social media firestorm between Pride supporters and Christians is heating up. But what if the conversation about Pride Month were to take place at a level I think we have all grown accustom to ignoring? The ...
Butker, Southern Baptists, and the “Woman Question”
May 31, 2024 by David Fowler
If you don’t know Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker was embroiled in controversy after voicing his beliefs regarding the “What is a woman” question, then maybe you’ve read about the question coming to the fore of ...
When Christians Replace the First Commandment with an Eleventh Commandment
May 23, 2024 by David Fowler
I’ve learned that idolatry is a subtle thing. I was once a political idolator. The idolatry was presented in the form of an Eleventh Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak evil against a fellow Republican.” Sometimes Republicans d...
A Disappointing “Assault on Science” by the Pro-Life Community
May 16, 2024 by David Fowler
The lead article in a mailer I received this week from a national organization “dedicated to building a culture of life” was titled, “Assault on Science.” I thought, “About time.” But the assault was nothing like w...
Must the Turning Point in History That Is Upon Us Be Bloody?
May 10, 2024 by David Fowler
The present situation in our nation is untenable. And if you have a sense that this untenability is not the result of incidental causes that will pass, allowing our social order to return to “normal,” you know our nation, even each state ...
Is Eric Metaxas’s Letter to the American Church 86 Years Too Late?
May 2, 2024 by David Fowler
Many politically conservative Christians are applauding Eric Metaxas’s Letter to the American Church for telling it like it is and telling Christians, ministers in particular, to wake up and get involved politically lest our nation descend into...
Parental Rights Bill Provides Insight into the Competency of Most Republican Legislators
Apr 25, 2024 by David Fowler
Being a Tennessee legislator is hard, not just because the level of acrimony is becoming worse, but because the whole nature of the world changed on June 26, 2015, and, sadly, only about three or four of Tennessee’s legislators, at most, have t...
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