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Is Marriage Making a Comeback Among the Young?

This is the season of weddings. My wife and I will attend three weddings in the span of eight days this week or so. These are wonderful Christian young people who are deeply committed believers and who are taking to marriage with full biblical seriou ...

July 12, 2006

Has Michael Kinsley Found Our Weak Spot? On the Logic of the Embryo

Michael Kinsley, now a columnist for Slate, thinks he has caught evangelical Christians and others in the pro-life movement in a net of hypocrisy. As he sees it, when many pro-lifers argue against the use (and necessary destruction) of human embryos ...

July 10, 2006

“Paying For Its Sins?” Charlotte Allen on Liberal Christianity

Charlotte Allen, an editor at Beliefnet, offers a very insightful (and intentionally controversial) opinion column in Sunday's edition of The Los Angeles Times. From her essay: You want to have gay sex? Be a female bishop? Change God's name to Sophi ...

July 10, 2006

Confirmation Bias in a Fallen World

Michael Shermer of Scientific American offers an interesting column on confirmation bias. Mr. Shermer is prone to biological reductionism (as evidenced in this article) and his primary interest in this article is politics, but his column raises a ba ...

July 7, 2006

Prophet of the Therapeutic Age — Philip Rieff Dead at Age 83

Philip Rieff, who died last Saturday at age 83, was one of those few individuals in any generation who names their own age in indelible ink. Philip Rieff, known best as a sociologist and interpreter of Sigmund Freud, did this in 1961 when he wrote o ...

July 6, 2006

The Evaporation of the Middle — A Sign of the Times

"What's really going on in the pews of Episcopal churches is they don't necessarily want to align with either side," he said. "They want to get on with life. They want this thing resolved." So spoke Rev. William Sachs, recently named director of the ...

July 3, 2006

Secularism with a Smile

Senator Barack Obama [D-IL] is one of America's most articulate political leaders. The freshman senator is already openly discussed as a presidential prospect, and his personal story is a reflection of the American dream. So, when Sen. Obama address ...

June 30, 2006

“Rest Assured that Our Church is Anglican Now” — A Pastor’s Statement of Heartbreak and Hope

Christ Church Episcopal in Plano, Texas -- drawing the largest weekly attendance of any Episcopal church -- announced its decision to leave the Episcopal Church USA [ECUSA] on June 24. The church's decision came just hours after the conclusion of the ...

June 30, 2006

Homosexuality, the Grace of God, and the Ongoing Struggle

Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner, James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, clarifies the biblical understanding of homosexuality in "A New Testament Perspective on Homosexuality" published in the current ...

June 29, 2006

Spain to Grant Rights to Apes

The liberal government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is moving to grant certain "rights" to apes. These rights are to include recognition as part of a "community of equals" with humans, according to press reports. This is a ludicrou ...

June 28, 2006