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...
Just last year, parent David Parker was arrested for trespassing at the Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts. Mr. Parker had demanded that school officials allow him to "opt out" his son from lessons on sexual diversity. His son ha ...
"Even other doctors call us the baby killers," says Dr. Christopher Estes of Columbia University's medical school. Dr. Estes insists that these other doctors are speaking "tongue-in-cheek," but the fact is that many medical students resist any traini ...
The New Republic returns to the issue of Brokeback Mountain in an essay by Christopher Orr on "Masculinity and Brokeback Mountain." Orr argues that the furor over the movie has to do with the fact that our current cultural context no longer allows tw ...
What would happen if Roe v. Wade were reversed? That question interests both sides in this nation's abortion debate, and no one can know just how each state would respond -- but some states have already signaled their intentions. According to a fron ...
The very existence of civilization -- an achievement under the best of circumstances -- is undermined by moral collapse. A haunting reminder of this now comes in the reponse of Hamas to yesterday's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The bombing killed nine ...
Richard W. Garnett, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, offers some wise counsel on the issue of the pulpit and politics, noting that all true preaching has some political dimension to it. This is simply inevitable, given the fact tha ...
I have written a great deal on the issue of evangelical definition -- an issue that will not go away any time soon. Michael Luo of The New York Times offered an overview of the question in Sunday's edition of the paper. I was glad to talk to Mr. Luo ...
Writing in Christianity Today, Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, offers an important defense of the substitutionary nature of Christ's atonement. His article is convictionally clear, balanced in tone, and very helpf ...
The Christian Science Monitor offers a report that confirms once again what many observers have noted -- that marriage is fast disappearing as a normative social institution, especially among the young in Europe. According to reporter Peter Ford, "A ...
"I have friends who I am quite sure are Christians who do not believe in the bodily resurrection," says the Right Reverend N. T. Wright, Bishop of Durham. This is a truly dangerous and unbiblical assertion, made all the more shocking when it is offe ...