The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday today and the nation marks a milestone. Though a few retired presidents have reached a 90t...
Abortion at the center: Is Kamala Harris running for president of the United States or of Planned Parenthood? Vice President Kamala Harris told her...
“Never give in”: What in the world are they saying about Winston Churchill? My intense interest in Winston Churchill began when I was a 10-year-old...
Should Christians seek cosmetic surgery? That is a pressing question that gets to the heart of our current cultural moment. As a society, we have corrupted the vision of beauty to the extent that some persons have procedure after procedure, entailing ...
Just count this as unlikely agreement week. Earlier, I found reason to agree with a statement by heretical retired Bishop John Shelby Spong [see here]. Now, I find basic agreement with and appreciation for an editorial published in The Christian Cent ...
Laurie Goodstein of The New York Times offers an audience-eye view of The Da Vinci Code movie, and her report is worthy of attention. She dismisses the movie as a bomb with film critics, and suggests that the movie will appeal mostly to diehard fans ...
Larry Hurtado, Professor of New Testament Language, Literature, and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, offers an excellent scholarly rebuttal to The Da Vinci Code at Slate.com. Here are a few of his key arugments: The belief that Jesus is som ...
In an interview with Sojourners magazine, Brian McLaren says the popularity of Dan Brown's book, The Da Vinci Code, is rooted in "an experience in shared frustration with status-quo, male-dominated, power-oriented, cover-up-prone organized Christian ...
The federal government is to require states to prepare evacuation plans for pets, as well as for humans, according to press reports. just take a look at this passage from coverage in The Washington Post: A television shot of a little boy losing his ...
Religion New Service reports that Chicago Theological Seminary is offering an "online self-defense course" for members of the United Church of Christ who face criticism when conservatives accuse them of "not believing the Bible." From RNS release, p ...
Don't get too excited, but I have found a basis for some agreement with John Shelby Spong, the liberal retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, New Jersey. It probably had to happen sooner or later. Bishop Spong's doctrinal system is, to state the obviou ...
The Los Angeles Times reports the obvious -- that scores of products are being linked to the success of The Da Vinci Code. Cashing in on the novel and the movie has become a growth industry. Reporter Louis Sahagun reveals an interesting admission fr ...
The editors of The Tablet [UK] offer an interesting assessment of The Da Vinci Code and its significance: The fact is that for an increasing proportion of the population, the more so the younger they are, religion is a blank piece of paper on which a ...