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...
Brussels Journal is reporting the formalization of the first three-person civil union in The Netherlands. Victor de Bruijn of Roosendaal (a 46-year old man) "married" two women, Bianca (31) and Mirjam (35). The report: "I love both Bianca and Mirjam, ...
Think you've seen it all? Look at this report from The Telegraph [London]: Women are increasingly seeking inappropriate IVF treatment because they do not have the time or inclination for a sex life and want to "diarise" their busy lives. Wealthy care ...
Sociologist James Q. Wilson -- one of the most influential public policy analysts of our times -- considers our culture's conflicted state of mind on the issue of marriage. As always, his ideas are worthy of serious attention. Wilson's article, "The ...
Here's how to stack a deck for a false argument. Collect unrelated statistics and pass them off as proving causation. A decline in steel production may be an item of interest, but it doesn't have anything to do with a rise in asparagus eating among r ...
The Washington Post and other papers are reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to use taxpayer money to reimburse churches and other religious groups for aid suppied in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This is a ho ...
Ligon Duncan, senior minister of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi and president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals has written a fine article offering a biblical and theological critique of open theism -- the theological move ...
The American university campus has become some of the most politicized real estate on the planet. In some sense, it has always been so. Controversy is nothing new to the campus culture, after all. Nevertheless, the political liberalism of the academi ...
USA Today editorialized on the new and undeniable gender imbalance on the college and university campus. For every 100 men receiving bachelor's degrees, women receive 135. That's a huge disparity, and USA Today describes the statistic as "ominous for ...
Columnist Cathy Young sees trouble among young college women. She responds to the recent report that increasing numbers of young college women intend to be stay-at-home mothers for their children. Writing in The Boston Globe, she observes: What's cle ...
Adam Nicolson is a distinguished British historian and author of an important book on the history of the King James Bible. He writes in The Wall Street Journal: It might be said that a civilization consists, at its core, of these easily transmitted ...