The Latest | Page 3

simple-silhouette-of-a-church-building-with-a-cross-on-top-c-812545218-stockpack-adobestock
Simple silhouette of a church building with a cross on top, conveying the essence of Christian worship
Image Credit: KerXing - Adobe Stock

Reintegrating Faith Into the Nation’s Approach to Homelessness

For more than a century, America’s response to homelessness was rooted in faith. Churches, rescue missions, Catholic Charities, and the Salvation Army fed the hungry, sheltered the vulnerable, and most importantly, walked alongside them toward restoration. They innately understood a fundamental truth: Homelessness is a human transformation challenge requiring recovery, accountability, and the restoration of purpose. Read More ›
SkidRowCampersindowntownLosAngelesWikimedia
Image by Russ Allison Loar: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skid_Row_Campers_in_downtown_Los_Angeles.jpg

LA’s Skid Row a Painful Monument of “Housing First” Policy

Skid Row in Los Angeles stands as a stark example of what happens when ideology overrides reality. Spanning roughly fifty blocks, it is one of the most concentrated homeless zones in the United States, filled with people trapped in addiction and untreated, severe mental illness, often marked by psychosis — a loss of contact with reality. For years, Los Angeles has wrapped its homelessness policies in the language of empathy and housing justice. But Skid Row reveals a harsher truth. Read More ›
business-woman-reading-newspaper-in-the-morning-stockpack-ad-204161683-stockpack-adobestock
Business woman reading newspaper in the morning
Image Credit: Rawpixel.com - Adobe Stock

Nothing Apocalyptic About AI, Let’s Stop the Headline Hype

Most media content about AI today read like supermarket tabloids…sensational, shallow, and often misleading. They can confuse more than they clarify. The reasons are many: clickbait incentives, genuine ignorance, and biased enthusiasm from those selling AI products. Most of the authors of these articles have never taken a foundational computer science course, have never written code, and have never run AI software. Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence. Read More ›
Who-Speaks-for-God-Bad-Theology-in-the-Case-for-Evolution
Video thumbnail from YouTube.

Who Speaks for God? Bad Theology in the Case for Evolution

Philosopher Stephen Dilley discusses how key arguments for evolutionary theory rely upon questionable theology. As a result, these arguments are surprisingly weak. Dr. Dilley is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. This talk was presented at the 2025 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith.

olasky-stacks-fade-to-black

Olasky Books: A new history of public housing

In December I reviewed Jane Leavy’s audaciously-titled Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It. Howard Husock’s The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press, 2025) comes from an academic publisher, which almost guarantees a boring title. A better title would have been: Make Me HUD Secretary: I Know What’s Wrong With “Affordable Read More ›