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So . . . Why Did I Write This? The Delusion of Determinism

The subversion of moral responsibility is one of the most significant developments of recent decades. Though this subversion was originally philosophical, more recent efforts have been based in biology and psychology. Various theorists have argued ...

August 21, 2008

Backtrack to Saddleback — Secularists Not Pleased

Suffice it to say that I was not very hopeful about the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency held at the California megachurch last Saturday night. In the first place, I am not really comfortable with the idea of hosting such a politically charg ...

August 19, 2008

Remodeling Hell — Americans Redefine the Doctrine

Is belief in hell disappearing? "Absolutely," says Barnard College professor Alan Segal, author of Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion. Segal's remark is found within a news story released by Religion News Service. In "Be ...

August 18, 2008

“American Teen” — Not a Pretty Picture

Nanette Burstein's American Teen documentary has hit the big screen with a limited release in major American cities. The film purports to be a realistic view of American adolescence, as Burstein went to Warsaw, Indiana in order to follow five teenag ...

August 15, 2008

The Strange Persistence of Moral Sanity

The fall of yet another politician in a sex scandal has added a note of Schadenfreude to the political season. Coming so quickly after the fall of former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, the admission by former Senator John Edwards of an affair dur ...

August 13, 2008

“Rights Talk” in California — Confusing the Same-Sex Marriage Issue

The fact that The Los Angeles Times favors same-sex marriage is not a new revelation. To the contrary, the paper has positioned itself in support of same-sex marriage for some time. Furthermore, no informed reader will be surprised to find that the ...

August 11, 2008

“Atheism Remix” — Understanding and Answering the New Atheism

Atheism is not a new concept. Even the Bible speaks of the one who tells himself in his heart, “There is no God.” Atheism became an organized and publicly recognized worldview in the wake of the Enlightenment and has maintained a foothold in Western ...

August 8, 2008

A ‘Season of Gracious Restraint?’ Not Likely.

The 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops ended with something more like a whimper than a bang.  The once-a-decade meeting of bishops of the Anglican Communion was a matter of controversy long before it started.  In an unprecedented move, over ...

August 6, 2008

Aliens in Creation — A Generation of Nature Know-Nothings

A recent conversation brought a troubling development into focus. A man told me that he had bought a home with some measure of reluctance, fearing that the location of the house so near to a neighborhood playground would mean too much noise. As it tu ...

August 5, 2008

“One Word of Truth Will Outweigh the Whole World” — The Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." Alexander Solzhenitsyn cited that Russian proverb in his 1970 acceptance speech as he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He did not deliver that speech in person, for he knew that if he lef ...

August 4, 2008