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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The Commercialization of Divorce?

The Ford Motor Corporation has decided that divorce just might sell cars and trucks. This bizarre conclusion is the only explanation for a new television "Bold Moves" advertising series the company has undertaken. As The New York Times explained [ar ...

August 30, 2006

On Homosexuality — A Change of Heart by the Archbishop of Canterbury?

The Telegraph [London] reports that Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has changed his views on homosexuality, now affirming a far more traditional understanding than had characterized his earlier thinking. Rowan Williams has distanced him ...

August 29, 2006

Does the Teacher’s Gender Matter? Apparently Yes

Thomas Dee, a professor at Swarthmore College and visiting scholar at Stanford University, has released a study indicating that boys learn better when taught by men and girls learn better when taught by women. Here is how his findings were reporte ...

August 29, 2006

As Others See Us — Evangelicals and Foreign Policy

Walter Russell Mead argues that American evangelicals are exerting a significant influence on the nation's foreign policy. Writing in the distinguished journal Foreign Affairs, Mead argues that the evangelical influence is likely to continue for som ...

August 28, 2006

Putting God Out of Business? A Debate Over Darwinism

BeliefNet.com offers an interesting debate on the question of evolution this week. Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Research Project and author of the best-selling book, The Language of God, argues that an affirmation of evolutionary th ...

August 25, 2006

What Secures Human Rights in a Secular World?

How can we define and defend human rights in a secular world? If God is dead, what secures the ought of human rights and human dignity? This may be one of the most haunting questions of our times. Writing in Crisis, Edward Feser argues that human ...

August 24, 2006

Beyond Marriage? Yes, Way Beyond

A group of liberal intellectuals and activists has released a statement calling for the nation to transcend contentious debates over same-sex marriage and sexuality by, in effect, abolishing marriage as a social norm and institution. For some time n ...

August 23, 2006

Needed — More “Genetic Outlaws”

Elizabeth R. Schiltz has been called a "genetic outlaw." An associate professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, Professor Schiltz did the unthinkable -- she received a diagnosis that the child she was carrying would be a Down syndrome baby, a ...

August 22, 2006

The Tragic End of Children’s Literature — An Obituary and Lament

Dorothea Israel Wolfson sees the very end of children's literature -- and she sees it in "the new 2,471-page, lap-crushing Norton Anthology of Children's Literature." Her review of the anthology, published in the summer edition of the Claremont Revie ...

August 22, 2006

Want Proof That We Live in Strange Times?

"It just saddens me to see so many of our strong butch women giving up their womanhood to be a man." Now there's a statement your grandmother probably wouldn't understand. It was spoken by a character on "The L Word," a lesbian soap opera on televis ...

August 21, 2006