So boys shouldn’t play on girls teams?

So boys shouldn’t play on girls teams? California’s governor suddenly affirms biology In a sudden affirmation of biological and moral sanity, Calif...

April 7, 2025

Latest Articles

Articles Archives

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

Salvation in a Pill? Academic Doping and America’s Parents

What if you could improve your child's academic performance with nothing more than a pill? That is no longer a hypothetical question. Parents naturally want their children to excel. Some parents are taking that natural desire to new lengths -- askin ...

September 26, 2006

Bob the Tomato Gets Censored

NBC has bought the rights to the VeggieTales series, but the distinctive content of the popular cartoon phenomenon is being removed by orders of the network's program standards officials. Bob the Tomato's signature sign-off line, "God made you speci ...

September 25, 2006

Sam Harris Writes Letter to a Christian Nation

Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, 2004's surprising best-seller, has emerged as the frontline opponent of all theistic faith. Now, he is out with a second book, Letter to a Christian Nation, and the gloves are off again. "In Letter to a Christ ...

September 22, 2006

Human Dignity Under Assault — Embryo Screening Goes Mainstream

A major survey of U.S. fertility clinics released Wednesday indicates that almost half of the clinics allow couples to choose the sex of a child. As reported in The Washington Post, "Sex selection without any medical reason to warrant it was perform ...

September 21, 2006

The Pope, the Prophet, and the Crisis of Truth

Pope Benedict XVI visited his native Germany last week and delivered an address to the science faculty of the University of Regensburg. His address dealt mainly with the relationship between faith and reason, but that theme was eclipsed by the Pope's ...

September 19, 2006

The Problem of Preaching to Felt Needs

The idea that preaching should be addressed to the self-perceived "needs" of the congregation is now well ingrained in the larger evangelical culture. The argument behind this is almost always missiological -- just preach to the needs people already ...

September 14, 2006

Does God Want Us to Be Rich? TIME Looks at Prosperity Theology

The cover photograph for this week's issue of TIME magazine just about says it all -- a picture of a Rolls Royce grille with a chrome cross as hood ornament. In the event anyone missed the point, the cover asks: "Does God Want You to Be Rich?." Theo ...

September 13, 2006