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Is Your Baby Gay? What If You Could Know? What If You Could Do Something About It?

What if you could know that your unborn baby boy is likely to be sexually attracted to other boys? Beyond that, what if hormonal treatments could change the baby's orientation to heterosexual? Would you do it? Some scientists believe that such develo ...

March 2, 2007

A Cry From the Heart of a Generation — The Pain of Divorce

Kenneth Lowe is a young man with a message -- and a rather stark message at that. He has written a powerful essay that serves as an indictment of his parents' generation. The issue is divorce and the emotion is intense. Writing in his college newspa ...

March 1, 2007

A Twentieth Century Life Comes to an End — Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., one of the most influential interpreters of American history, died yesterday in New York City at age 89. His death, coming in the first decade of the twenty-first century, serves as a reminder of the tumultuous ...

March 1, 2007

What Does Pop Music Have Against Marriage?

William Weir of The Hartford Courant asks a very interesting question. What does pop music have against marriage? The central institution of human social life is largely missing from the musical scene, and positive references to marriage are virtuall ...

February 28, 2007

“You Might Say that Some of His Forays into Philosophy Are at Best Sophomoric, but That Would be Unfair to Sophomores” — Plantinga Reviews Dawkins

Alvin Plantinga, perhaps the most influential Christian philosopher in the world today, has issued a devastating review of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It is not to be missed. Plantinga, who serves as John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy ...

February 27, 2007

“Larry King Live” Tonight — “The Lost Tomb of Jesus”

I will appear on CNN's "Larry King Live" tonight to discuss the documentary soon to be released by James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici on the Discovery Channel, purporting to have "found" the "lost tomb of Jesus." The program is scheduled at 9:00pm, ...

February 26, 2007

The Fear of Christian Sincerity? The Shape of Things to Come

David Cameron is the leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, a post to which he was elected after just four years in Parliament. His goal is to lead his party to victory in Britain's next national election, and then to serve as Prime Minister. M ...

February 26, 2007

The Sad Spectacle of the Spectacle

I do not often find myself in hearty agreement with Bob Herbert of The New York Times, but his column released yesterday is too brilliant and haunting to resist. As a matter of fact, Mr. Herbert's argument is so compelling that I am breaking a promis ...

February 23, 2007

Crisis, Controversy, and Confusion — Lessons from the Anglican Turmoil

The meeting of the Anglican primates in Dar es Salaam is now over, but the church's crisis is not -- not by a long shot. The primates released documents described as a Covenant and a Communique, but arguments over what the documents mean emerged even ...

February 23, 2007

We Are What We Read . . . and Eat

Brittany Shahmehri is a very creative mom, and she knows the way to a boy's heart -- through his stomach. Shahmehri and her husband want their two boys to love books and reading, and they have come up with a great way to make books come alive for ch ...

February 22, 2007