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...
The Culture of Death scores in Britain: A post-Christian society surrenders to “assisted death” Once again, the Culture of Death scored big last we...
Collapse in the cathedral: A scandal in the Church of England reveals big lessons for all Christians Headlines around the world last week told of t...
It was a night to remember. We went into Tuesday evening with the constant reminder that the presidential race would be among the tightest in recent h...
"It's a wonderful privileged life, you know, being a book writer." David Halberstam said that to Brian Lamb of C-SPAN in 1993. Halberstam was a reporter and author of incredible ability and considerable insight. Even when I disagreed with his assessm ...
The secularization of Europe is one of the most important developments of our times. Secularization is, to some extent, a phenomenon of modernity and a reality in most industrialized nations. Even in the United States, long described as the exception ...
In the aftermath of disaster, a phenomenon called the "blame game" often soon rears its head. The impulse to assign moral responsibility is normal -- even healthy -- but the game often plays itself out in irrational ways. Just observe much of the me ...
In an historic 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the government's right to ban the partial birth abortion procedure. The Court reversed the rulings of six lower courts that had struck down the ban. The measure had been passed by Congr ...
The Independent [London] has published an amazing report indicating that Britain faces a "crisis" in the availability of abortion. It seems that "an unprecedented number of doctors are refusing to be involved in carrying out the procedure." As the p ...
My article responding to the Virginia Tech tragedy is found at "On Faith," sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine. An excerpt: The unspeakable evil of the killings at Virginia Tech bring us once again face to face with the reality o ...
We read biographies because worthy portraits of our fellow human beings help us to make sense of the world. We are especially fascinated by the lives of those who have made a difference in the world -- whose mark remains visible even now. The lives o ...
Theologian J. I. Packer delivered an historic defense of objective significance of the cross in "What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Substitutionary Atonement," his 1973 Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture at Cambridge University. Packer starts by ...
Last week, with the cross and resurrection of Christ prominent in many public conversations, several figures launched direct attacks upon the idea of penal substitution. Most notably, The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey John of the Church of England rejected the do ...
Should stillborn babies be assigned birth certificates? That question is throwing some legislatures right in the middle of the conflict over abortion -- and that is a tragic commentary on our times. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Cali ...