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Massachusetts Episcopal Diocese to Give Up on Marriages?

Here is an interesting take on the crisis in the Episcopal Church -- the church's Massachusetts diocese may just quit marriage altogether. As The Boston Globe reported Sunday: In a novel approach to the tensions that have accompanied the same-sex m ...

October 9, 2006

By Their Books We Shall Know Them

Jay Parini, a poet and professor of English at Middlebury College, has written an elegant essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education, noting his penchant for looking at personal libraries of friends and acquaintances. In "Other People's Books,' Par ...

October 6, 2006

The View into the Womb is “Extraordinarily Dangerous?”

The ground is shifting on the abortion debate, and the most significant issue here is the impact of modern imaging technologies -- the view into the womb. Sophisticated multi-dimensional imaging technologies, such as Ultrasound, allow us to see the f ...

October 5, 2006

Heresy in the Church of High Art

Opera seldom makes the news these days. Once a major force in the culture, opera is now the concern and fascination of a narrowing elite. The reasons for this trend are many, but among these is the fact that opera has followed the trend that now char ...

October 4, 2006

The Seminaries of the Left — Your Local University?

David French of the Alliance Defense Fund has written an important expose of the fact that supposedly secular institutions of higher education are teaching theology -- but of a decidedly liberal bent. As he reports in National Review: Given the rem ...

October 3, 2006

Rethinking Contraception — A Younger Generation Ponders the Question

When "The Pill" was introduced in the 1960s, most evangelicals responded with eager acceptance. The century had seen the discovery and invention of modern antibiotics, the development of the Salk and Sabin vaccines againt polio, and countless other m ...

October 3, 2006

That Was Then . . . This is Now? A Nazi Nightmare

A horrible discovery was made last week near the German town of Menden. The lack of media attention about this in the United States should serve as an alarm in itself. As Deutsche Welle reports, the skeletons of twenty children and five adults were ...

October 2, 2006

The Faith Club — A Postmodern Parable

Want to join a Faith Club? A trio of women in New York City have established a group they call the Faith Club as an effort toward interfaith relations at the most personal level. As reporter Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today explains, "This New York ...

September 29, 2006

Culture Determines Politics — Just Look at This

What will determine the outcome of the 2008 elections? My interest is less in the politics than in the worldview issues revealed in the political process. As for the politicians -- they care about the votes. Wednesday's edition of USA Today contained ...

September 28, 2006

The Corruption of the University

Not too long ago, colleges and universities were expected to function in loco parentis, fulfilling a parental role toward students and holding students responsible for their moral behavior. At the same time, the university was itself a place of dedic ...

September 27, 2006