So boys shouldn’t play on girls teams? California’s governor suddenly affirms biology In a sudden affirmation of biological and moral sanity, Calif...
The courage and clarity of President Trump’s executive orders on gender identity Last week, flanked by a small army of girls and young women, Presi...
Young men are turning to conservatism—in politics and in Christianity They didn’t see this coming. Liberals in America are scratching their heads t...
The meaning of the president’s second term in office Monday was one of those very few days that draw a line in the sands of history. Amer...
The concept of orthodoxy requires the concept of heresy. If we are warned by the Apostle Paul to "follow the pattern of sound words" [2 Timothy 1:13], there must be a pattern of unsound words that we are to avoid. The very concept of truth requires t ...
Is the future of our congregations tied to the fate of the family? Professor W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia is sure that this is so, and his research and analysis is impossible to ignore. In his essay, "As the Family Goes," publishe ...
Does worldview determine behavior or does behavior determine worldview? In the end, the process must certainly work both ways. An individual's basic worldview surely determines moral choices and behaviors. But habits of life and moral context can als ...
The state of Oregon legalized a form of assisted suicide in 1994, but its neighbor to the south, the nation's most populous state, has no such provision. Efforts in California to pass legislation allowing assisted suicide have failed five times over ...
The cultural and ideological divisions that separate Americans -- fronts in the Culture War -- are increasingly evident in Europe as well. America is often described as divided into "red" and "blue" states, transforming the electoral map into code fo ...
The New York Times reports that some millionaires in Silicon Valley just can't make ends meet, and are gripped by a sense of economic insecurity. Most Americans would surely find this perplexing, but a million dollars only goes so far. As the paper ...
Oxford University professor Richard Dawkins, probably the best-known atheist of our times, is launching a campaign to call atheists "out of the closet," so to speak. Even as his book, The God Delusion, continues as a best-seller, he wants to mobilize ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...