The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday today and the nation marks a milestone. Though a few retired presidents have reached a 90t...
Abortion at the center: Is Kamala Harris running for president of the United States or of Planned Parenthood? Vice President Kamala Harris told her...
“Never give in”: What in the world are they saying about Winston Churchill? My intense interest in Winston Churchill began when I was a 10-year-old...
The current question at "On Faith," sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, is this: Some politically conservative Christians say that America is "a Christian nation," and at this time of year, with the country saturated with Christm ...
The Office of the Vice President of the United States announced last week that Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, is expecting a baby. The official word came from Lea Anne McBride, a spokeswoman for the Vice President. The spokeswo ...
The Christian church is experiencing a crisis with men. The statistics tell the story. The church has been feminized in style and the manly virtues are depreciated. Christianity -- a faith predicated on truths for which brave men were willing to die ...
Just a month ago, the New York City Board of Health announced plans to let persons change the sex on their birth certificate -- even without a sex-change operation. The proposal was seen as a major advance for those seeking to separate gender from bi ...
As widely anticipated, the Conservative branch of American Judaism "settled" the issue of homosexual rabbis and the blessing of same-sex unions by adopting contradictory positions and allowing local synagogues to choose between three options. The mo ...
Beliefnet.com has published a debate of sorts on the "mommy wars." Linda Hirshman, author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World, returns in a lengthy interview to her argument that women who stay home to care for children are "letting do ...
It seems that some heterosexual couples are refusing to get married, claiming that it would be unjust to marry while same-sex couples are "denied" the same right. The New York Times reports that the protest is spreading among some young couples. "Wh ...
The Conservative Jewish movement is poised to redefine its position on the moral status of homosexuality, especially as related to the ordination of homosexual rabbis and the blessing of homosexual unions. A panel of rabbis will meet December 5 and ...
The New York Times ran a major article on transgender children on December 2, adding considerable visibility to an issue that had, until recently, hardly been mentioned in public. [See my article of October 18, 2006, "Gender Confusion in the Kinderga ...
Is Christianity in America losing its credibility? Oliver "Buzz" Thomas obviously thinks so. In his view, Christianity is losing credibility because so many Christians believe that homosexuality is a sin. He doesn't mince words. In an op-ed column p ...