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Never Too Young? Misleading Our Girls About Beauty

Here is yet another sign of the times. The New York Times reports that even the youngest of girls are being targeted as consumers of cosmetics and beauty treatments. The elementary set is showing up in trendy salons for pedicures and manicures. As th ...

February 29, 2008

OK, So What Kid Doesn’t Fit this Description?

When thinking of signs of our times, consider this advertisement from a Nebraska newspaper. The ad was brought to my attention by a helpful listener to the radio program. Now, let's think carefully about this. Can't sit still? Can't play quietly? ...

February 27, 2008

America’s Changing Religious Landscape

A massive new study of the American religious landscape reveals big changes and powerful trends shaping the future. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life surveyed 35,000 Americans in one of the largest research projects yet undertaken. The U.S ...

February 26, 2008

America’s Most Sinful Cities?

What are America's most sinful cities? How could we know? Well, give Forbes magazine credit for giving this ranking challenge a try. The magazine recently offered rankings on the traditional seven deadly sins -- and ranked America's "top ten" on each ...

February 22, 2008

Our House or the Big House? It’s Parents or Prisons

For a hauntingly large number of young Americans, prison has become a substitute for parents. Writing in Policy Review, Jennifer Roback Morse argued just a few years ago that this "apparent overstatement" is sustained by two realities. As she explain ...

February 20, 2008

Are We Teaching Our Children to Lie?

Just a few years ago, author Ralph Keyes argued that America had evolved "beyond honesty." In The Post-Truth Era: Honesty and Deception in Contemporary Life, Keyes proposed that honesty is now "on the ropes" as a virtue. In presenting his case, Keye ...

February 19, 2008

The Death Culture Strikes Again

A rise in suicide among the young seems to be tied to the emergence of on-line suicide sites that offer advice and encouragement to kill oneself. The Telegraph [London] reports that, as an example, one village in Wales has seen a significant spike i ...

February 18, 2008

Victory and Vindication for the Beagle at Last

Beagle lovers were vindicated last week when Uno, a beautiful 15-inch Beagle won "Best in Show" at New York's prestigious Westminster Kennel Club. This great win for the famous hound represents vindication for the Beagle -- the all-American breed. Wh ...

February 18, 2008

Two Irreconcilable Worldviews

Efforts to reconcile Christianity and evolutionary theory abound, even as evolutionists bemoan the fact that such a large percentage of Americans simply will not accept a naturalistic understanding of cosmic and human origins. Writing in the New Scie ...

February 15, 2008

Atheism Remix: The New Atheism as a Challenge to Christian Theology

Last week I had the great honor of presenting the W. H. Griffith Thomas Lectures in Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary. I greatly enjoyed my time on that historic campus and the opportunity to visit with Dr. Mark Bailey, the seminary's presiden ...

February 14, 2008