President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...
The Culture of Death scores in Britain: A post-Christian society surrenders to “assisted death” Once again, the Culture of Death scored big last we...
Collapse in the cathedral: A scandal in the Church of England reveals big lessons for all Christians Headlines around the world last week told of t...
It was a night to remember. We went into Tuesday evening with the constant reminder that the presidential race would be among the tightest in recent h...
Week by week, Lee Siegel of The New Republic offers some of the most insightful cultural analysis to be found anywhere. In this week's issue, he considers the meaning of Oprah Winfrey, arguing that Oprah represents the apex of television as a cultur ...
Newsweek introduces its readers to the movement it calls the "Lohasians" in the magazine's June 5, 2006 edition. According to Steven Waldman of Beliefnet.com, "Lohasian" is an acronym for "Lifestyles of Heath and Sustainability." Here's how the Loh ...
According to a new study, British men lead all others in the consumption of online pornography. The study was commissioned by The Independent [London] and the results seem to have shocked the paper's reporters, Anthony Barnes and Sophie Goodchild: ...
Is the world of fashion the implacable enemy of modesty in dress? Pia Catton considers this question in a most interesting essay published in the current edition of In Character. In "Dressing for the Occasion: When is Allure a Fashion Slip?," she arg ...
I had the privilege of addressing the New Attitude 2006 conference in Louisville Monday, leading a session on a Christian understanding of sexuality in light of contemporary challenges. It was a tremendous experience -- just seeing all those highly ...
The conviction of Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skillings is an historic development in the world of business and in the field of criminal prosecution, but the whole case raises more questions than these convictions can answer. Some immed ...
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 ...