Opinion

From the Desk

The editorial column of William A. Green Jr. — what the capture of the Seven Mountains looks like from the desk, and what we do about it.

The Religion Mountain · September 26, 2026

Which Church Do You Attend?

Seven letters, seven churches, and the one you are sitting in. Revelation 2 and 3 were written to congregations. They read like a mirror.

The Column · September 23, 2026 · ~4 min

A Child in the Womb Is Not a Parasite

The parasite comparison fails every test a biologist would actually apply. It survives because it does moral work no argument could do on its own.

The Education Mountain · September 16, 2026 · ~4 min

The Cake Was Not the Scandal at Utah

Two College Republicans at the University of Utah face an expulsion hearing for photographing a cake that mocked an assassination. The girl with the cake apologized and walked. The lesson isn't that the left is organized — it's that we are not.

The Education Mountain · September 1, 2026 · ~4 min

Portland Taught the Teachers First

A drag performer opened Portland Public Schools' official welcome-back video for staff. That is not a lapse in judgment — it is a curriculum, and the students are the last to receive it.

The Religion Mountain · August 31, 2026 · ~4 min

Set a Watch on the Sanctuary Door

A worship service in Detroit was reportedly interrupted mid-sermon, and the request for a federal look at it is now public. Churches that still plan for 1985 need to plan for the decade they are actually living in.

The Religion Mountain · August 30, 2026 · ~4 min

Everyone Has a Plan for America Except the Church

Every other movement in this country is discipling people toward a goal. Too many pulpits are discipling people toward silence, and Scripture has a harder word for that than we like to admit.

The Religion Mountain · August 30, 2026 · ~4 min

Treat the Church House as Watched Ground

The rise in church arson tells us less about arsonists than about a culture that has stopped seeing sanctuaries as sacred. Congregations must stop assuming the building guards itself.