A lion of the pulpit, now in Christ’s presence: The relentless expository passion of John F. MacArthur, Jr., 1939-2025

He was the greatest expositor of his times. One of the ironies of John MacArthur is that, to the end, he insisted that any God-called preacher of the ...

August 14, 2025

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Continuous Media “Snacking” — Bite Size Entertainment for an Attention-Deficit Age

Just a few decades ago, educators and other observers were warning that the American attention span was growing dangerously short. Serious political debate had been sacrificed in favor of "sound bites." Educators reported that students had difficulty ...

March 8, 2007

Are Humans Hardwired for Belief in God? Darwinism Attempts a Naturalistic Explanation of Belief in the Supernatural

Are we hardwired to believe in God? That is the strange and rather awkward question asked within this week's cover story in The New York Times Magazine. In "Darwin's God," reporter Robin Marantz Henig looks at how evolutionary scientists are trying t ...

March 7, 2007

Dogs — “Children of the New Millennium?”

Dogs are wonderful creatures. Our home is shared with a beagle named Baxter, a sweet-hearted canine of simple tastes and constant optimism. I often wonder this:  If I knew as little of what was going on as he does, would I be as happy as he is? Proba ...

March 6, 2007

Recovering Civility . . . and Refusing to Deny the Obvious

Ann Coulter is a woman of many gifts and many right ideas. She can be an eloquent spokeswoman for conservative convictions and a prophetic critic of secular liberalism. Unfortunately, she can also be her own worst enemy. Last week, as she addressed ...

March 5, 2007

Religion’s Generation Gap?

What happens when teenage children are more devout than their parents? The Wall Street Journal addressed that question in a major report published in the March 2, 2007 edition of the paper. As reporter Katherine Rosman explains, "An increasing number ...

March 5, 2007

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