A lion of the pulpit, now in Christ’s presence: The relentless expository passion of John F. MacArthur, Jr., 1939-2025

He was the greatest expositor of his times. One of the ironies of John MacArthur is that, to the end, he insisted that any God-called preacher of the ...

August 14, 2025

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Marriage Only for a Minority? Not Hardly

The New York Times announced its story on the new Census Bureau data with this headline: "To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered."  How so? Here is the lead sentence: "Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of ...

October 17, 2006

Television Viewing and Autism . . . a Link?

Researchers at Cornell University are reporting a "statistically significant relationship" between autism and early television viewing in children. The best summary of the findings is available at Slate.com in an article by Gregg Easterbrook. As Ea ...

October 17, 2006

John Stott on Christ and the Bible

Christianity Today magazine offers an important interview with evangelical leader John R. W. Stott in its current issue. Now 85, Stott was for many years pastor of All Souls Church, Langham Place, in London. He is also one of evangelicalism's most pr ...

October 13, 2006

The Morality of Knowledge

The threat of nuclear weapons in North Korean is deeply troubling. The very idea that the Hermit Kingdom could be armed with nuclear weapons is enough to send the rest of the world into a state of international anxiety. The political and military dim ...

October 12, 2006

Europeans Awakening to the Islamic Threat?

Will Europe become the heart of a new Islamic civilization? A growing number of Europeans are waking up to the threat. In "Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center," reporters from The New York Times trace the growing consensus in Europe tha ...

October 11, 2006

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