President Biden’s unpardonable pardon

President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...

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Are Children Threatening the Earth? The Great Liberal Death Wish Strikes Again

Malcolm Muggeridge, a keen observer of the twentieth century and its horrors, used to speak of the "The Great Liberal Death Wish." Over the years, Muggeridge applied this explanation to a number of perplexing issues, especially the liberal embrace of ...

April 21, 2008

Values and Moral Truth are Not the Same

No discussion of our national ills is complete without some mention of slippery "values" in the public square. Indeed, though talk of moral absolutes is portrayed as outdated and simplistic, the debate concerning national values has never been more h ...

April 18, 2008

The Pope Comes to America — Evangelical Thoughts

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the United States yesterday, and a flood of media attention has arrived with him. I was asked by editors at The Washington Post and Newsweek to write a special column for "On Faith" which would represent an evangelical vo ...

April 16, 2008

The Real Issue with Sen. Obama’s Comments

The news media and political pundits have been dissecting the now infamous comments of Sen. Barack Obama in which he told a group in San Francisco that hard economic times explain why some people cling to religion, guns, and certain political convict ...

April 15, 2008

Newsweek Discovers the Divorce Generation

"In our parents' generation, marriage was still the most powerful social force. In ours, it was divorce," writes David J. Jefferson. "My 44-year-old classmates and I have watched divorce morph from something shocking, even shameful, into a routine fa ...

April 14, 2008

Would You be Okay with a Gay Kid?

Details magazine is an American version of what the Brits call "laddie mags" -- rather racy magazines that present a vision of what the good life is supposed to look like for young adult males. The magazine features an assortment of articles on male ...

April 11, 2008

Biblical Authority and the Preacher

The inaugural issue of Christianity Today, dated October 15, 1956, featured an article by Billy Graham entitled, "Biblical Authority in Evangelism." The thrust of the article was clear -- without an unhesitant "thus saith the Lord" authority in preac ...

April 10, 2008

Liberal Theology and Theological Education — A Cautionary Tale

The history of theological education in the United States is a convoluted tale involving a host of institutions -- each with its own story. The New York Times recently looked at one of these stories in its article, " A Seminary Where a Bicentennial L ...

April 9, 2008

The Divorce Industrial Complex

Americans are generally aware that our Divorce Culture is a documented tragedy, but most seem to think that the availability of so-called "no fault" divorce is just a permanent reality. Few Americans seem to understand that marriage is being undermin ...

April 7, 2008

Wombs for Rent? Newsweek Looks at Surrogate Mothers

The cover of this week's edition of Newsweek magazine is sure to attract a lot of attention. The cover photograph reveals the abdomen of a pregnant surrogate mother along with these words -- "Womb for Rent: The Complex World of Surrogate Mothers." Th ...

April 4, 2008