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...
Euphemisms are the refuge of moral cowardice, and no euphemism is so cowardly or so deadly as "reduction" -- a word that sounds like math, but really means murder. The August 14, 2011 edition of The New York Times Magazine makes this fact clear in it ...
The Christian church has faced no shortage of challenges in its 2,000-year history. But now it's facing a challenge that is shaking its foundations: homosexuality. To many onlookers, this seems strange or even tragic. Why can't Christians just join ...
[The funeral for John R. W. Stott, one of the most famous evangelical preachers of the last century, will be held today in London at All Souls Church, Langham Place, where he served with distinction for so many decades of ministry. In honor of John S ...
The U.S. Supreme Court's declaration of war upon the unborn in its infamous 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade, caught most conservative Christians unprepared and unaware. This shock to the nation's conscience required Christians and other pro-life activists ...
Each U.S. presidential election cycle brings its own set of unexpected issues, and the 2012 race already offers one topic of controversy that truly sets it apart -- a debate over forms of therapy that attempt to change an individual's sexual orientat ...
There it was, plain as day. Monday's edition of USA Today included an opinion column by a Muslim woman that argued--quite straightforwardly--that the United States government should force a nondiscrimination policy on gender in all places of worship. ...
The legal, social, moral, and political maps of America were redefined last Friday night as the New York State Senate voted 33-29 to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. The State Assembly had already approved the measure, leaving the Republican- ...
As if the Church of England does not have enough troubles, word is leaking out of Lambeth Palace that the church is about to allow the appointment of openly gay bishops, so long as those bishops remain celibate. The news has emerged in the form o ...
Is President Obama about to endorse same-sex marriage? The possibility was the subject of open speculation on the front page of Sunday's edition of The New York Times. Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg quoted an unnamed Democratic strategist close to the ...
There is no shortage of perplexing realities in our world today, but counted among them must be the fact that many rather well informed people seem to be shocked that Christians believe the doctrines of Christianity. Over the weekend, Rep. Anthony W ...