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...
I was invited to particpate in National Public Radio's "Taking Issue" forum on "Evolution and Religious Faith." Here's how NPR introduced the series: At its extremes, the current debate over teaching Darwin's theory of evolution pits science against ...
The media swarming about the controversy over evolution, Intelligent Design, and creationism are losing their cool, and showing their true colors in the process. In today's commentary, I take a close look at the panic evident in the latest issue of T ...
Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, received an unexpected hit in the media recently after speaking to the issue of human embryonic stem cell research. Here's what he said on the August 3 edition of the Focus on The Family ...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA] is reportedly "reconsidering" a campaign that compares animal abuse to human slavery. According to The Los Angeles Times, One panel showed a black civil rights protester being beaten at a lunch count ...
Meeting yesterday, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [ELCA] turned back a proposal that would have allowed non-celibate homosexuals to serve as ministers. As The New York Times reports today, In an indication of the deep split over homosexua ...
In today's commentary, "Video Games -- The New Playgrounds of the Self," I take a look at Christine Rosen's important article, "Playgrounds of the Self," published in the current edition of The New Atlantis. That's also the topic of today's edition o ...
Christopher D. Morris is in a lather. In his op-ed article, "Stopping a Judicial Conflict of Interest," published earlier this week in The Boston Globe, Morris comes right to the brink of secular panic -- and then goes over the cliff. He actually sug ...
The now-infamous NARAL Pro-Choice America television ad against Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has become a lesson in the value of intellectual integrity and the necessity of truth-telling -- even in the midst of a contentious political battle. [ ...
Beliefnet.com features an exchange of articles between Bill Dembski and Michael Ruse that continues and clarifies the debate. Dembski's article includes these choice statements: Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophicall ...
Michael Ruse is one of evolution's most ardent defenders. A philosopher of science who teaches at Florida State University, Ruse is a frequent presence in the media, a well-known author, and an energetic critic of both creationism and Intelligent Des ...