The vast revolutions in morality that have reshaped the modern landscape have been spectacularly successful, with very few exceptions. In the last hal...
With Christmas just days away, the Vatican evidently thought it was high time to reverse 2,000 years of Christian tradition and allow priests to bless...
Most of us know we’re living in consequential times, but sometimes it seems we’re living in truly dangerous times. Just over the course of the last fe...
So, what about the new speaker of the House? Is he a kind and gracious man or “a right-wing fever dream come to life,” as one columnist declared? Actu...
The secularization of Europe is one of the most important developments of our times. Secularization is, to some extent, a phenomenon of modernity and a reality in most industrialized nations. Even in the United States, long described as the exception ...
In the aftermath of disaster, a phenomenon called the "blame game" often soon rears its head. The impulse to assign moral responsibility is normal -- even healthy -- but the game often plays itself out in irrational ways. Just observe much of the me ...
In an historic 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the government's right to ban the partial birth abortion procedure. The Court reversed the rulings of six lower courts that had struck down the ban. The measure had been passed by Congr ...
The Independent [London] has published an amazing report indicating that Britain faces a "crisis" in the availability of abortion. It seems that "an unprecedented number of doctors are refusing to be involved in carrying out the procedure." As the p ...
My article responding to the Virginia Tech tragedy is found at "On Faith," sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine. An excerpt: The unspeakable evil of the killings at Virginia Tech bring us once again face to face with the reality o ...
We read biographies because worthy portraits of our fellow human beings help us to make sense of the world. We are especially fascinated by the lives of those who have made a difference in the world -- whose mark remains visible even now. The lives o ...
Theologian J. I. Packer delivered an historic defense of objective significance of the cross in "What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Substitutionary Atonement," his 1973 Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture at Cambridge University. Packer starts by ...
Last week, with the cross and resurrection of Christ prominent in many public conversations, several figures launched direct attacks upon the idea of penal substitution. Most notably, The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey John of the Church of England rejected the do ...
Should stillborn babies be assigned birth certificates? That question is throwing some legislatures right in the middle of the conflict over abortion -- and that is a tragic commentary on our times. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Cali ...
Iran scored a huge publicity coup in the capture and release of 15 British sailors and Royal Marines in recent days. Iran has played this game before, and is likely to play it again. The tactic puts the nation directly into the headlines around the w ...