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 life and legacy of Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th President of the United States, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Ga., at age ...
What do we do with those who deny the Holocaust? This is not a new question, but the two-day conference that drew Holocaust deniers to Iran has put the question back on the front pages. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad convened the meeting, dr ...
Events of recent days underscore the moral dimension of history. The death at age 91 of General Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile, came as he was under indictment for human rights abuses and tax evasion. The Chilean strongman had seized ...
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 ...