This past week I was invited to speak in our nation's capital at the Department of Health and Human Services' ceremony announcing its new Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom. Here is what I said. Published January 21, 2018
The Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs reports that a collective bargaining group representing public schools in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is calling for a boycott of student teachers from the local Christian university. The reason for the proposed shunning? Oklahoma Wesleyan University's president (yours truly) dared to suggest that the bad ideas presently being taught in our nation's schools might, at least in part, be responsible for the bad behavior we are seeing in our national news. Published January 14, 2018
Piper: It's not about gay or straight, it's about the definition of what it means to be human. Even Gore Vidal said, "there is no more such a thing as a homosexual person than there is a heterosexual person, these are behavioral adjectives." We are not defined by our desires. It's about our behavior. It's not about our being. Published January 7, 2018
In C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe," Susan, upon hearing of the great lion from across the Eastern Sea, asks whether Aslan is "safe." Mr. Beaver responds: "Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good.' " Published December 31, 2017
Christmas Day has come and gone and once again, the headlines of the holy-day season have been awash with stories of the secular intolerance of Christ's mass. Published December 25, 2017
In C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," there is a scene where we find the children standing fearful and confused in a land that is frozen and nearly lifeless. A lamppost stands somberly in a windless forest that is blanketed with snow and the few creatures the children do encounter are frightened and paranoid. Published December 17, 2017
The Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C. is now on record saying that, for a modest fee, it will perform a late-term abortion on a healthy, viable baby boy or girl. Published December 10, 2017
Since the release my book, "Not A Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth," I have been asked over and over again by the likes of everyone from Pat Robertson and Adam Carolla to Glenn Beck, Dennis Prager, Dana Perino and Jim Dobson: "Okay, Dr. Piper, you've identified the problem in our colleges and universities, now what's the solution? Published December 3, 2017
Another day and yet more and more claims of sexual assault flood the news. Published November 29, 2017
Question: If the woman in the photo of Al Franken (where he's groping her while she sleeps) would have given "consent," then would this be right and good? If morality is really nothing more than mutual "consent" and Sen. Franken could prove that she said this was okay to do while she lay sleeping, he would have nothing — absolutely nothing — to be "ashamed" of. Right? Published November 19, 2017
I was recently criticized by Right Wing Watch (an organization that defines itself as a "project of People for the American Way") for supporting Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council's "record on issues including gender identity." Published October 24, 2017
Mr. and Mrs. Beaver tell the kids that Narnia is under the spell of an evil despot. Published December 30, 2015
Forgive us for what we have taught our children: that evil is good and good is evil; that darkness is light and light is darkness; that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. Forgive us for teaching them that left is right and right is wrong, that true is false and falsehood is true. Published December 30, 2015
