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 New York Times announced its story on the new Census Bureau data with this headline: "To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered." How so? Here is the lead sentence: "Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of ...
Researchers at Cornell University are reporting a "statistically significant relationship" between autism and early television viewing in children. The best summary of the findings is available at Slate.com in an article by Gregg Easterbrook. As Ea ...
Christianity Today magazine offers an important interview with evangelical leader John R. W. Stott in its current issue. Now 85, Stott was for many years pastor of All Souls Church, Langham Place, in London. He is also one of evangelicalism's most pr ...
The threat of nuclear weapons in North Korean is deeply troubling. The very idea that the Hermit Kingdom could be armed with nuclear weapons is enough to send the rest of the world into a state of international anxiety. The political and military dim ...
Will Europe become the heart of a new Islamic civilization? A growing number of Europeans are waking up to the threat. In "Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center," reporters from The New York Times trace the growing consensus in Europe tha ...
Here is an interesting take on the crisis in the Episcopal Church -- the church's Massachusetts diocese may just quit marriage altogether. As The Boston Globe reported Sunday: In a novel approach to the tensions that have accompanied the same-sex m ...
Jay Parini, a poet and professor of English at Middlebury College, has written an elegant essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education, noting his penchant for looking at personal libraries of friends and acquaintances. In "Other People's Books,' Par ...
The ground is shifting on the abortion debate, and the most significant issue here is the impact of modern imaging technologies -- the view into the womb. Sophisticated multi-dimensional imaging technologies, such as Ultrasound, allow us to see the f ...
Opera seldom makes the news these days. Once a major force in the culture, opera is now the concern and fascination of a narrowing elite. The reasons for this trend are many, but among these is the fact that opera has followed the trend that now char ...
David French of the Alliance Defense Fund has written an important expose of the fact that supposedly secular institutions of higher education are teaching theology -- but of a decidedly liberal bent. As he reports in National Review: Given the rem ...