The empire strikes back

The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...

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Marriage Going Out of Style?

"The bottom line is that a heavily married society is a whole lot better off than one that's not," says David Popenoe, a professor of sociology at Rutger's University and co-director of the National Marriage Project. Popenoe's statement should be rea ...

November 14, 2006

Biotechnology and the Human Future — An “Exploding” Issue

William Saletan covers biomedical issues and related controversies at Slate.com -- and his instincts about what is important are very often right on the mark. He got it right recently when he pointed to the emergence of biotechnology issues in the 20 ...

November 13, 2006

Jesus Christ is “Our Vehicle to the Divine?” The Episcopal Church is in Big Trouble

Dr. Katherine Jefferts Schori has now assumed office as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA. A former oceanographer, Bishop Schori is the first women to serve as Presiding Bishop. Her election is one of the most divisive developments wit ...

November 10, 2006

TIME on God vs. Science

"Can religion stand up to the progress of science?" That is the question posed by TIME magazine in its current cover article, "God vs. Science." The article, written by David Van Biema, looks at the expanding fronts which pit scientific claims agains ...

November 9, 2006

The War Against Play

Administrators at Willett Elementary School in Attleboro, Massachusetts recently banned tag. That's right folks, no more of that dangerous and frightening game in which one kid runs after another. None of that in Attleboro. They have discovered tr ...

November 7, 2006

Eugene Merrill’s Everlasting Dominion — A Major Contribution to Old Testament Theology

Dr. Eugene Merrill, who serves as Distinguished Professor at both Dallas Theological Seminary and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has recently published his theology of the Old Testament. Everlasting Dominion: A Theology of the Old Testame ...

November 7, 2006

The Nation Discovers Secular Fundamentalism

Eyal Press must be a brave man. I say that because he takes American liberals to task for their secularist assumptions -- and he does so in The Nation, America's venerable newsmagazine of the Left. Press begins with a 2004 op-ed written by Garry Will ...

November 6, 2006

Newsweek’s Take on Evangelicals and Politics

Newsweek declares this week that evangelicals are experiencing an "identity crisis." That's what observers inside and outside the movement have been saying ever since it was organized in the mid-twentieth century -- and they have always been right. ...

November 6, 2006

The Conservative Soul

Andrew Sullivan, author of The Conservative Soul, was my guest on The Albert Mohler Program on Thursday. A full transcript of the Sullivan interview is found below. Andrew Sullivan is a serious man of ideas. I believe that his most important ideas ar ...

November 3, 2006

The Limitations of Science — A Timely Reminder

Richard P. Sloan, professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University, argues that scientific studies of religious faith are useless, and a display of scientific reductionism at work. Writing at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sloan argues, "R ...

November 3, 2006