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Articles by Gregory Jensen
Islam, Blasphemy, and the Murder of Salwan Momika Original
Plus: A review of Jonathan Rauch’s new book on Christians and democracy. By and Published February 16, 2025 While the religion news cycle in the U.S. has been dominated lately with tensions between church and state (or at least a Trump administration), in Sweden religion news has centered on a different subject: the murder of Salwan Momika. Momika, an immigrant from Iraq, had gained notoriety in recent years for lighting copies of the Quran aflame during public demonstrations against Islam.
Why J.D. Vance Is Wrong About the Catholic Church’s Mission Original
Hi, and happy Super Bowl Sunday to all who celebrate (including those of you, like me, who can’t really bring yourself to root for either the Chiefs or the Eagles). Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent criticism of Catholic bishops for their work with refugees and migrants was a surprise on many fronts. Not because Vance—whose No. 1 priority as vice president seems to be advocating for his boss’s policy preferences—took a hard line on immigration.
How Christianity Helps Us Recognize Good Authority Original
Hi and happy Sunday. Americans have always had a fraught relationship with authority. A healthy skepticism was built into our founding documents so that civically our bent is toward questioning the natural limits of our governing authority. That stretches into the realm of religion, too. In some ways, the story of the last 25 years of American Christianity has been that of bad religious authority: abuse scandals, unhealthy understandings of church and politics, and sometimes cultish fads.
Our Best Stuff on Confirmation Hearings, Federal Buyouts, and J.D. Vance
Published February 1, 2025 Hello and happy Saturday. Is it just me, or was last week a very long month? The Office of Management and Budget released an order freezing certain federal grants and loans that caused significant confusion. It later rescinded the order after a judge in D.C. issued a stay to keep it from going into effect.
Men Flocking to Orthodoxy: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Original
Happy Sunday. A handful of stories in recent years have tried to track a swath of young men converting to Eastern Orthodox churches—sometimes implying nefarious reasons. Observers and journalists like my friend Terry Mattingly have urged caution in interpreting such reports, but such stories continue to pop up. Today Gregory Jensen, a Wisconsin-based Orthodox priest, poses a few questions both for those trying to make sense of those stories but also for Orthodox believers themselves.
Wisconsin Democrats want to hear your confession
By Rev. Gregory Jensen - Recently, my Madison, Wisconsin, parish offered to take up a collection to pay my bail and legal fees. The offer while sincere was premature and tongue in cheek. But a proposed change in state law brings with it a real possibility of putting me in legal jeopardy. My congregation’s concern for me stems from the Clergy Mandatory Reporter Act (CMRA) being put forward by Democrat state legislators Sen. Lena Taylor, Rep. Chris Taylor, and Rep. Melissa Sargent.
Wisconsin Democrats want to hear your confession
Recently, my Madison, Wisconsin, parish offered to take up a collection to pay my bail and legal fees. The offer while sincere was premature and tongue in cheek. But a proposed change in state law brings with it a real possibility of putting me in legal jeopardy. My congregation’s concern for me stems from the Clergy Mandatory Reporter Act (CMRA) being put forward by Democrat state legislators Sen. Lena Taylor, Rep. Chris Taylor, and Rep. Melissa Sargent.
The Gospel of Humanitarianism
AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko In The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity (Encounter Books, 2018), Daniel J. Mahoney confronts a central heresy of our age, the “remarkably truncated view of human beings” that fails to “acknowledge the hierarchy of goods and values that characterize the moral order and the life of the soul.” He traces the genealogy of contemporary humanitarianism and its critics from Auguste Comte through Pope Benedict XVI.
America's Destiny Must Be Freedom
Ralph Waldo Emerson described America as “the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.” Many Americans don’t feel that way as pessimism has replaced a once vibrant optimism about the future. Economic malaise, crippling debt, and a mammoth oil gush in the Gulf Coast are daily reminders of seemingly unmovable obstacles.
A Russian businessman discovers the law of love
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Gregory Jensen, 67 - The Grand Island Independent: Obituaries
Inurnment will be at a later date. Greg was born Oct. 24, 1948, at Superior to Kenneth and Dorothy (Littrel) Jensen. He went to Nora grade school, Nelson High School and University of Nebraska for his undergraduate and law school. Greg married Lucinda Jo Pederson Aug. 15, 1971, at the Lutheran church in Hardy. To this union two children were born: Ryan Jensen and Nikki Jensen. Greg was first and foremost a family man. His biggest joy was in being “Papa” to his precious grandchildren.
The Francis-Trump Populist Nexus
Populism and free markets have a strained relationship. On the one hand, free markets have raised the living standards of ordinary people beyond belief and given them opportunities their ancestors couldn’t possibly imagine. So one would think any leader who wants the people on his side would promote market economics.
The Moral Dimension of Work
“The moral foundation of political economy,” to use Lord Acton’s phrase, rests on the connection of liberty with right, of right with duty, of duty with leisure and delight, and of all with transcendence. Our most unsettling economic problems are actually not economic but moral—moral ones that cannot be simply passed on from generation to generation. They need to be chosen and internalized by each person in each generation at the risk of deflecting material goods from their proper purposes.
The Real ‘Throwaway’ Culture
Pope Francis is famous for his strident denunciations of a “throwaway culture” that ruthlessly discards human beings not considered useful in an economy that “kills.” His criticism is true in so far as our pragmatic age exalts what David Brookscalls “résumé virtues” over “eulogy virtues.” Technocracy and utilitarianism have made us cold and calculating, less respectful towards nature and neighbor.
Unholy Alliance: Who is Advising Pope Francis on Global Warming?
Smiling, lovable, Pope Francis says and does the darndest things. Wildly popular, this Argentine pontiff provides the common touch that for millions, and not just Catholics, offers a welcome and very public picture of how the world’s most influential religious leader can live, pray and lead as a humble pastor.
The Moral Limits of Psychology
Defenders of the free market insist that virtue is essential to a just and thriving economy. If morality is relevant to economics, it is equally so to allied fields of social science, all of which have as their object of investigation the human person. Indifference to the moral dimension distorts the study of human action in economics; so too does it deform the discipline that reaches behind that action to the human mind: psychology.
Glenda Jackson pays tribute to Lorca;NEWLN:UPI Arts & Entertainment
LONDON -- Three European queens journeyed to London's suburbs the other night to see Glenda Jackson open in 'The House of Bernarda Alba,' a fittingly regal tribute to a remarkable theatrical occasion. The production itself is a tribute to the play'swriter, poet-playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. It opened 50 years nearly to the day after Lorca was murdered by Francoist forces early in the Spanish Civil War.
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