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.
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...
What Seems to Unite Donald Trump, Kari Lake, and Pro-Life Abolitionists and Incrementalists
Apr 19, 2024 by David Fowler
The abortion position of Donald Trump, Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Kari Lake’s response to the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision reinstating an 1864 law prohibiting abortion, and the reaction of the Alabama legislature to the IVF deci...
Did Evangelicalism Help Formulate Trump’s Views on Abortion?
Apr 10, 2024 by David Fowler
On Monday, Donald Trump released a video putting forward his position on abortion. It was predicated on six religious precepts as best I could tell. Each reminded me of something I see within the evangelical culture that protested his position. Did h...
Did Biden Offer Christians an Image of God Awareness Day for Easter?
Apr 4, 2024 by David Fowler
President Biden’s proclamation of Transgender Awareness Day coincided with Easter Sunday. Perhaps he thought it was a great day for the proclamation, because he noted we are all made in the image of God. Easter is, in fact, a great day for reco...
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