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Marriage — It Can’t Be Normative If it Isn’t the Norm

A major study published today in Britain offers clear evidence -- again -- that marriage is the best context for bringing up children. The study is noteworthy because of the widespread respect that it has already attracted and for the fact that it, i ...

September 7, 2006

Hey — When Did Pinocchio Become a Muslim?

The Telegraph [London] reports that Islamic schools in Turkey are transforming characters from the Western literary canon into Muslims. Some of the books carry the crest of Turkey's ministry of education. In the new version, Pinocchio makes this req ...

September 6, 2006

Teenagers and Cars — A View Into the World of Youth

Young people -- especially boys and young men -- develop an interest in cars that often approaches the obsessive. Sociologist Amy L. Best of George Mason University takes a very important look at this phenomenon in Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelera ...

September 6, 2006

The Alternatives — God or Nothing

David Bentley Hart argues that contemporary persons are increasingly committed to belief in nothing. He does not mean that modern persons do not believe in anything, but that they are actually committed to a form of nihilism. Speaking as a representa ...

September 6, 2006

Don’t Trust a Theory You Cannot Sing

The theory of evolution, inevitably expanded into a worldview, must explain everything, if it explains anything. Rightly understood, evolutionary theory attempts to explain virtually all dimensions of reality. As evolutionists like Daniel Dennett exp ...

September 5, 2006

Leisure and Labor — Two Gifts from God

Christians understand labor as a duty, but miss the fact that it is a gift. In the first place, God has made us able to work -- to manipulate things, to cultivate the ground, to manage herds, and to invent microprocessors. Secondly, He has allowed us ...

September 4, 2006

To See Ourselves as Others See Us

The truth often hurts, and there is a good bit of truth in Peter Feuerherd's analysis of American evangelicalism. Feuerherd is a Catholic journalist writing something of field manual to evangelicalism for his fellow Catholics. His book, Holyland USA: ...

September 1, 2006

What Do You Have to Do to Get Kicked Out of a Pulpit Around Here?

David Jenkins has been one of Britain's most controversial figures for some time. From 1984 to 1994 he served as Bishop of Durham -- a post that gave him quite a platform for his radical theology. In more recent years, he has been known as an ardent ...

September 1, 2006

Pagans Ancient and Modern

Joy Davidman, the wife of C. S. Lewis, wrote a commentary on the Ten Commandments entitled, Smoke on the Mountain. In this brilliant passage, she offered a keen observation on the difference between ancient and modern paganism: The old pagans had to ...

August 31, 2006

Is Monotheism Dangerous? Gore Vidal Against the “Sky-God”

If you are still wondering why the secular worldview is inherently opposed to the Christian understanding of reality, consider this attack on monotheism from Gore Vidal, one of the scions of the literary Left: Now to the root of the matter. The gre ...

August 31, 2006