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...
TIME's current cover story, "The Battle Over Gay Teens," is a cultural development in itself. The very fact that the magazine would devote a cover story to the controversy over teenagers dealing with homosexuality is highly significant. Most readers ...
Lowell Monke offers important insights in his new article published in the current edition of Orion. In "Charlotte's Webpage: Why Children Shouldn't Have the World at Their Fingertips," Monke warns that children who spend a great deal of time on the ...
Just a couple of weeks ago, David Savage of The Los Angeles Times wrote a most interesting article on Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on demand. The article seems to have attracted little attention, and that ...
As reported yesterday, Harriet Miers is member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas, Texas. President Bush's most recent nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court has attracted a great deal of media attention, and at least to major newspapers have publ ...
President George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers as the new associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court caught almost everyone by surprise. After all, Harriet Miers was -- at least until yesterday -- relatively unknown outside of the White Hous ...
Dan Haseltine, lead singer of the group, Jars of Clay, has written a moving and insightful article on marriage and the power to last. In "Longevity," published in the current issue of Relevant Magazine, he writes of observing his grandparents and th ...
Last week I looked at the false argument behind Ruth Gledhill's article in The Times [London] purporting to show that nations with a higher commitment to Christianity also experienced higher rates of various social pathologies. As I argued then, Gled ...
Last year, doctors at the Groningen Academic Hospital in the Netherlands applied for permission to perform euthanasia on babies -- even as they admitted they were already doing so. In 2003, the Dutch Medical Society appealed to the government to crea ...
In what must look like an exercise in self-parody, NBC plans to broadcast a new prime-time soap opera entitled "Inconceivable," which is fictionally located within a fertility clinic. Honest. Here's the scoop from NBC's Web site: This delightful ense ...
William Murchison takes a good look at the tragic collapse of Christian belief in Europe, describing Europe's vanishing faith in poetic terms: "Centuries of Christian belief swept away in a great cosmic sorting-out; history stood on its head." The ev ...