Dr Paul Allen

The recent refusal of now-confirmed Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to answer the question, “what is a woman?” is just one symptom that is part of a much larger disease infecting our society. In the same way, I tell men who struggle with a porn addiction that porn isn’t their true problem, the what is a woman/transgender debate is just one small manifestation of a bigger thing.    At its root, the foundational ailment producing our multiple higher-level maladies is a rejection of God and His true reality for one that is a self-created and false actuality. The willful king of the bedroom Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor describes our current situation as a battle between the mimesis and poiesis worldviews. The first sees reality as having a purposeful order and design (teleology), which provides meaning and thus sees humans as needing to discover that meaning and conform to it. The second sees the world as nothing more than undirected raw material out of which st...

There is no denying that America has a new civic religion. The US flag, now deliberately and effectively tarnished in the minds of many as a symbol of racism, has been replaced with a rainbow flag proclaiming to the world our new genital dogmas and pelvic creed. “I feel very woman, and I feel very man. I feel both, and I feel neither …” declared Layshia Clarendon, the WNBA’s first openly non-binary transgender player, in a recent ESPN cover story. The story’s author, who refers to Clarendon alternatively as he, she, and they throughout the profile, writes that the primary driving force for Clarendon is faith. “… I feel like all the gender expansiveness that exists in the world is in me.” Clarendon explains. “I think that’s what the word ‘trans’ means to me too. It’s such a beautiful word, and such a beautiful community that is full of resilience. And it … it just feels like magic.” A society of mini-gods each in pursuit of its own power is far more like hell than heaven. Being able to ...

People around the globe are discussing the term “wokeness.” There is much talk of whether people are “woke” or not. For those who need clarification, to be “woke” is “to be alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice” (Oxford English Dictionary). In many ways, it’s an awakening and a movement that seems to be penetrating many corners of our public life. Defining precisely what “being woke” or “wokeness” means is complex. Lacking a founder figure, a manifesto, or a governing body, and varying greatly from country to country, wokeness is fluid and can mean different things to different people. Equally, there are shades of wokeness; some people are merely “woke-tinged” while others are so deeply woke that it penetrates every aspect of life. So that said, here are a few observations about wokeness. A Genuine Concern First, there are significant positive aspects of the woke movement. “Stay Woke” has been a watchword for African-Americans encouraging others to stay awake to the de...