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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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“Lest You Be Consumed” — The Tragedy in Minneapolis

The scenes from Minneapolis are frightening, tragic, and sobering. In this age of technological marvels and engineering achievements we expect buildings to stay on the ground, airplanes to stay in the air, and bridges to stay in place. The sudden and ...

August 2, 2007

“Utterly Normal?” — No “Post-Homosexualist” Era Yet

Our language has reached some important natural limits of meaning. A recent media report considered the increasing number of homosexual couples, both male and female, who are now "having babies." Well, these same-sex couples are not "having" babies i ...

July 30, 2007

Are Mormons “Christians?” — Ending Where I Began

My concluding article in the Beliefnet.com dialogue, "Are Mormons 'Christians?,'" is now posted and can be found here. An excerpt: The debate has never been about whether Mormons are good Americans or would make good neighbors. I dare say that most ...

July 26, 2007

Marriage — There Is No Alternative

The fact that many young women are recapturing a vision of virginity until marriage has attracted a considerable amount of media attention. Media coverage has been devoted to books by authors such as Wendy Shalit and Dawn Eden and to programs encoura ...

July 23, 2007

What Did Luther Do?

Mary Zeiss Stange is a professor of women's studies and religion at Skidmore College in New York and a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors. In an article published in the paper's July 9, 2007 edition, Stange suggests that mainline Protestant ...

July 18, 2007

“Screen Kids” — A Generation Raised by Electronics?

A British think-tank has sounded a warning about a generation of "screen kids" who are being raised by "electronic babysitters." The report also warns that these children, largely parented by digital devices, are spending more and more time in their ...

July 16, 2007

No, I’m Not Offended

Aren't you offended? That is the question many Evangelicals are being asked in the wake of a recent document released by the Vatican. The document declares that the Roman Catholic Church is the only true church -- or, in words the Vatican would prefe ...

July 13, 2007

A Priest Goes on “Time Out” — Time to Rethink the ‘Christian Muslim’ Idea

The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding of Seattle made news in recent weeks by declaring herself to be both a Christian and a practicing Muslim. The Episcopal priest lives in Seattle and is scheduled to teach for the next academic year at Seattle University (a ...

July 9, 2007

The Mormonism Debate Continues

The debate over the question, "Are Mormons 'Christians?,'" continues at Beliefnet.com. My second article was published Thursday and I look forward to reading the response by Orson Scott Card. The debate can be found here. From my second article: In ...

July 6, 2007

A New Meaning for “Dead Air” — Digital Death in the Media Age

Germany's most influential newsmagazine, Der Spiegel, reports that a new television channel there will concentrate 24/7 on issues related to death, dying, aging, and mourning. This may be the inevitable result of Europe's secularization, and on this ...

July 2, 2007