Everett Piper

Normalizing sin: An open letter to the church during Pride Month

Pride Month is obviously upon us. When you buy the lie that your identity is nothing more than the sum total of your inclinations, there is no limit to the lengths you will go to normalize your sin.

June 11, 2023

Ask Dr. E: Is agnosticism more honest than Christian faith?

Higher Ground is there for you if you're seeking guidance in today's changing world. Everett Piper, a Ph.D. and a former university president and radio host, is writing an advice column for The Times, and he wants to hear from you. If you have any moral or ethical questions for which you'd like an answer, please email askeverett@washingtontimes.com, and he may include it in the column.

June 6, 2023

‘The Chosen’ flies the rainbow flag

On May 30, just before President Biden tweeted his annual call for our nation to spend an entire month celebrating pride, another Dylan Mulvaney-esque kerfuffle broke out in one of the most unlikely places.

June 4, 2023

Ask Dr. E: How do we solve the ‘dead wrong’ views of those we disagree with?

Higher Ground is there for you if you're seeking guidance in today's changing world. Everett Piper, a Ph.D. and a former university president and radio host, is writing an advice column for The Times, and he wants to hear from you. If you have any moral or ethical questions for which you'd like an answer, please email askeverett@washingtontimes.com, and he may include it in the column.

May 30, 2023

Told you so: Conservatives have warned over and over where LGBTQ narrative will lead

Headlines from the week's news that belong in the "We told you so" category are too numerous to count. The file drawer titled "Ideas have consequences" is overflowing. Consider these examples:

May 28, 2023

Ask Dr. E: How one reader struggles to reconcile love vs. legislation in LGBTQIA+ debate

Higher Ground is there for you if you're seeking guidance in today's changing world. Everett Piper, a Ph.D. and a former university president and radio host, is writing an advice column for The Times, and he wants to hear from you. If you have any moral or ethical questions for which you'd like an answer, please email askeverett@washingtontimes.com, and he may include it in the column.

May 24, 2023

Biden’s open-border policy is unbiblical, historically stupid

Ronald Reagan once said, "A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation." Over three decades later, Donald Trump added: "A nation without borders is no nation at all."

May 21, 2023

Ask Dr. E, Ph.D.: Grappling with abortion, innocent civilian war casualties through a Christian lens

Higher Ground is there for you if you're seeking guidance in today's changing world. Everett Piper, a Ph.D. and a former university president and radio host, is writing an advice column for The Times, and he wants to hear from you. If you have any moral or ethical questions for which you'd like an answer, please email askeverett@washingtontimes.com, and he may include it in the column.

May 16, 2023

Censorship at Northwestern University: School defends punishing conservative students

In news from the crazy land of America's colleges and universities, first place in the race of hypocrisy and self-refutation goes to Northwestern University, a school once considered among our nation's finest.

May 13, 2023

Is artificial intelligence good for education?

This past week, a student called me to request an interview for an assignment. The topic was artificial intelligence and its effect on the ivory tower.

May 6, 2023

Redefining love: ‘Tolerance’ merely shows apathy

If you're honestly following America's culture wars, you must admit that many of the ideas and values that were once considered a necessary predicate to our constitutional republic have substantially eroded.

April 29, 2023

A nation of misogynists: Feminists’ gains lost in the blink of an eye

NCAA championship swimmer Riley Gaines is assaulted at San Francisco State University. She is punched multiple times by a man wearing a dress. Why?

April 23, 2023

What became of sin? Let’s call LGBTQIA+ movement what it is

This past week William E. Wolfe, tweeted: "The data makes [it] very clear. The continuing increase of younger generations identifying as LGBTQIA+ is an inorganic, manufactured social contagion spread by social media."

April 15, 2023

The most important news story in human history

What would you say if you were asked to name the one news story that changed the course of human history more than any other?

April 7, 2023

Nashville Christian massacre and an open letter to Reverend Ed Rotz

This past week, a transgender militant named Audrey Hale walked into a private school in Nashville, Tennessee, and proceeded to execute three children and three staff members.

April 2, 2023

You’re not Webster: Our disrespect for what words mean

The loss of objectivity and the consequent millions of different answers to the question of what the definition of "is, is" is the poster child of all that ails us.

March 26, 2023

Diversity, equity, and inclusion should be second to biblical unity, equality, and truth

Last week in this column, I wrote about DEI and argued that the political agenda of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" is broken, inconsistent, and self-refuting.

March 19, 2023

Republicans bow to goddess of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

This week's news from the frontline of the culture wars comes from Oklahoma, where a Chad Caldwell watched a bill he sponsored to give parents online access to their sons' and daughters' public school curricula go down in flames.

March 12, 2023

Nation of narcissists: When your source of truth goes no further than what you see in the mirror

"The problem with you conservatives is that you're arrogant. You think you're always right."

March 5, 2023

Is Oklahoma House Bill 2186 really populist puffery?

This week's headline in the "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" section of your daily news comes from Copan, Oklahoma, arguably the reddest corner of the reddest of red states, and the story of House Bill 2186.

February 26, 2023