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...
A speaker at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington provides a truly tragic example of how Christians must not talk about homosexuality. This is one of the most serious questions facing the Christian church -- a challenge to biblical authority and ...
Vincent J. Schodolski, national correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, deals with the intentional childlessness issue in "Pitter-patter of Little Feet Isn't for Them: Not Having Kids Sounds Great to Many Couples," a front-page story in Sunday's editi ...
Carol Sarler wants to enter into a civil union with her adult daughter. Nothing incestuous or lesbian, mind you. She just wants the tax savings and other benefits that come with the civil unions. Writing in today's edition of The Times [London], Sarl ...
Christopher Orlet writes: A popularity contest for public intellectuals seems about as silly as a beauty contest for dogs. Still both are done. The latest -- and as far as I know the only -- was conducted by the journals Prospect and Foreign Policy. ...
Before the week ends, I want to draw attention to what many (but not all) in the mainstream media have missed -- President George W. Bush's brave and strategic support for religious liberty during his recent visit to Asia. The President's first publ ...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA], always out on the radical fringe, is busy with its annual crusade against the eating of Thanksgiving turkeys. It's now offering "The Top Ten Reasons Not to Eat Turkey" on its web site. I won't bu ...
The New York Times editorializes on the Internal Revenue Service's investigation of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, concluding that "it would seem to be hard to justify picking on a church that has a long record of opposition to ...
Funeral music can be beautiful, declaring the Gospel and the majesty of God. Or, it can be maudlin, superficial, banal -- and even heretical. The choice says much about us, and much about our faith. In an increasingly secular world, the abandonmen ...
Jean Baudrillard, one of France's most prominent thinkers, is famous for his theory that reality is constructed out of simulation and simulacrum -- signs and images. In a media driven age, these signs and images replace the real and appear as the do ...
Michael Kinsley, a prolific liberal thinker now associated with The Los Angeles Times, is a writer with whom I rarely agree. He's smart and articulate (he was the founding editor of Slate magazine), but he can also be infuriating. So, when I saw his ...