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Sharia Law in Great Britain?

The Archbishop of Canterbury has instant access to the media and his office carries a great deal of symbolic weight in Great Britain, where he is the senior cleric in the established church. That said, the current archbishop, Rowan Williams, seems to ...

February 13, 2008

Has God Called You? Discerning the Call to Preach

Has God called you to ministry? Though all Christians are called to serve the cause of Christ, God calls certain persons to serve the Church as pastors and other ministers. Writing to young Timothy, the Apostle Paul confirmed that if a man aspires to ...

February 11, 2008

Pray for Union University

The devastating storm system that cut across the Tennessee Valley Tuesday night produced tornadoes and a disaster at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Thankfully (and miraculously) no one was killed on the campus, though the destruction was mas ...

February 7, 2008

A Worldview Clash in View — A Gift from Literature

No one should underestimate the extent to which fundamental worldviews produce very different understandings of reality.  These different understandings of reality produce radically different perspectives on the real-life issues with which we are con ...

February 4, 2008

A Voice they Don’t Want to Hear

Just a couple of weeks ago, a new voice was heard in the abortion debate -- the voice of the fathers whose babies have been aborted. As The Los Angeles Times reported, these men have been gathering and telling their stories [read my article here]. An ...

January 31, 2008

One to One with Bill Goodman

I was very pleased to join host Bill Goodman for a conversation on "One to One," Kentucky Educational Television's interview program. Bill Goodman adds a great deal to the intellectual conversation in Kentucky, and I enjoyed the conversation. We disc ...

January 30, 2008

God, Moral Judgment, and the Death Penalty

In a fascinating new look at capital punishment, Professor Walter Berns of Georgetown University argues that support of the death penalty is tied to belief in God. He documents the link between secularization and declining support for capital punishm ...

January 29, 2008

Old and Alone?

For many years now, Elizabeth Marquardt has been producing some of the most compelling research on the children of divorce. As her research makes clear, the children of divorce leave no doubt about the negative -- indeed devastating -- effects of di ...

January 28, 2008

A Legacy of Conviction and Courage

The year was 1980 and the controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention was in full force. Adrian Rogers, pastor of the Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis has been elected SBC President just the previous June -- setting the stage for what became kno ...

January 23, 2008

A Marriage Debate Worth Watching

The folks over at the libertarian-leaning CATO Institute have produced a debate over marriage that demands attention. The lead essay by Stephanie Coontz sets the stage for the debate, and three substantial responses to her essay add further substance ...

January 22, 2008