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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

“Part of the Life Course?” Cohabitation in Contemporary America

The U.S. Census Bureau has just reported that cohabitation among heterosexual couples has hit record numbers as living together -- as opposed to getting married -- becomes more and more mainstream. USA Today provides extensive reporting on this issu ...

July 30, 2008

Blame Africa? The Anglicans and their Troubles

The Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops is meeting in Britain, even as the worldwide Anglican communion is about to tear itself asunder over issues of homosexuality, gender, and biblical authority. Over 200 conservative bishops are boycotting the ...

July 28, 2008

Teen Pregnancy, Hollywood Style

Early in July, OK! magazine featured a cover story about Jamie Lynn Spears and her new baby, Maddie. Newsweek reported that the magazine paid $1 million for the rights to publish photographs of the baby and mother. The young mom, now 17, is shown on ...

July 25, 2008

“A Knight of the Mind” — Dawkins, Darwin, and the Battle of Worldviews

The Times [London] is out with an article headline that reads, "Dawkins Slaps Creationists into the Primordial Soup."  Now that grabs your attention. Dawkins, pleased to be known as "Darwin's Rotweiller," has been given a new three-part television s ...

July 23, 2008