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ON FAITH — Character and Leadership

The editors of The Washington Post and Newsweek asked the On Faith panel to answer this question: What does the Eliot Spitzer scandal say about our public and private morality? Should he have resigned? My column on this question was posted Friday. Y ...

March 17, 2008

The Tempter in the Child’s Bedroom — Television

For good and obvious reasons, Americans have spent a great deal of energy and research in identifying and removing contaminants and dangers from the lives of children. Lead was once a common ingredient in paint for homes, but the danger lead posed to ...

March 14, 2008

Overt Hostility toward Homeschoolers

The controversy over a California appeals court ruling on homeschooling continues to expand, even as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pledge to defend the rights of homeschooling parents and Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell on Tuesda ...

March 13, 2008

The Spitzer Affair and the Press

The fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is unfolding like a Greek tragedy -- only more slowly. Few seem to think that the Governor can hang onto his office, even for a few days. As details of his complicity in an elite prostitution service add up ...

March 12, 2008

American Christianity and the “Culture of Customization”

Researchers are beginning to look at the data and analysis from the massive U.S. Religious Landscape Survey undertaken by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life -- and some of the insights are worth noting. The study revealed big changes in Ame ...

March 11, 2008

A Bolt From the Blue — A Homeschooling Decision in California

Like a bolt from the blue, a California appeals court has ruled that the state's parents have no constitutional right to homeschool their own children. In a flash, a child welfare case that no one had noticed has become a flash point of controversy i ...

March 7, 2008

Shepherds’ Conference 2008

I am in Southern California in the company of over 3,000 faithful pastors at the 2008 Shepherds' Conference. The conference is one of my favorite events of the year, and I am so glad to be here with my good friend Dr. John MacArthur, host of the conf ...

March 6, 2008

Masculinity without Manhood?

It does not take great intellectual sophistication to see that we are in a period of widespread gender confusion. As with so many other developments of our times, our evolving language betrays more substantial shifts in the culture. Writing in The B ...

March 5, 2008

The Post-Truth Era Strikes Again

The question of truth has always haunted authors of controversial stories -- including both fiction and non-fiction. Nevertheless, non-fiction was understood to represent a claim to be a true, even if highly interpreted, account of reality. Or, at le ...

March 4, 2008

Transforming Culture: Christian Truth Confronts Post-Christian America

Peggy Noonan is right. At some point, in some moment, all of us must admit that something remarkable has happened to American culture. Mrs. Noonan, a former presidential speechwriter, recalls that this moment came for her during a high school graduat ...

March 3, 2008