We have to talk about the trans issue. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox appeared on several leading Sunday morning news programs this past weekend, and we need t...
Every generation has its own formative moments. In just a few generations, the prominent memories shifted from “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember Pearl...
For decades now, leading American conservatives have accused the political left of being soft on crime. This charge against the political left in the ...
Committee hearings and meetings of the U.S. Senate are often routine and uneventful, but one hearing this week turned into something truly consequenti...
I am pleased to serve as a panelist on a new project undertaken by The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine. "On Faith" is described as "a conversation on religion" -- with religion described as "the most powerful yet least understood topic in globa ...
Another mainline Protestant minister has defied church law, blessed a same-sex union, and yet escaped discipline. In this case the denomination is the Presbyterian Church USA and the minister is identified as "a direct descendant of legendary Puritan ...
The British media reported shocking news in recent days as a major bioethics report is to be released, offering guidelines for the medical care of severely disabled infants. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics will release the report later this week, a ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...