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...
Over at OneTrueGodBlog, Hugh Hewitt asked for principles that would help guide Christians in making decisions about how to respond to human needs with financial support and disaster relief. The awful earthquake in Pakistan comes quick on the heels o ...
In the current issue of New York magazine, writer Kurt Andersen takes on the Intelligent Design movement. Actually, he takes on the entire structure of Christian belief. His assertion of agnosticism is unremarkable in the elite urban culture of New ...
"There are three states of the soul -- ignorance, opinion, knowledge -- those who are in ignorance are the Pagans, those in knowledge, the true Church, and those in opinion, the Heretics." --Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata. The Los Angeles Times ...
Jack Wertheimer writes about the problem of a falling Jewish birthrate in the October issue of Commentary. He writes with directness and insight: Not long ago, a Manhattan rabbi stunned his congregants by informing them that the future of the Jewis ...
One of the most powerful movements of the last half-century directed its energeis toward avoidance of what it termed the "population explosion." Some leaders in the movement were ideologues driven by contremporary environmental theories. Others wer ...
A massive earthquake in northern Pakistan and India has killed as many as 30,000 people in the Hindu Kush mountains alone, according to some recent estimates. The quake struck Saturday morning but, due to the remote nature of the quake-damages areas ...
The Bishop of Oxford (Church of England) is not the type to be hung up on orthodoxy. The Right Reverend Richard Harries is a determined theological liberal who takes predictably "progressive" positions on just about any issue. I was surprised, ther ...
My commentary for Friday, "Division at Dartmouth--A Christian Speaks His Mind," deals with the controversy over Noah Riner's convocation address at Dartmouth College. Noah was my guest on Friday's edition of The Albert Mohler Program. Read his conv ...
Novelist Annie Proulx short story, "Brokeback Mountain," is about to hit the big screen as a major motion picture. Yet, even before the movie hits the screen, the story is hitting controversy. Cody McNair, a film producer who is the son of Texas oil ...
Columnist John Leo of U.S. News and World Report provides an excellent summary of a notewrothy controversy in Lexington, Massachusetts. In his article, "The Parent Trap," published in the magazine's current issue, Leo explains how David and Tonia Pa ...