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The Radical Concept of Virginity

The Telegraph [London] reports that evangelical college students in Britain are set to attend sessions on keeping their virginity. The paper's coverage implies that sexual virginity among the young is nothing less than an exotic and apparently newswo ...

May 22, 2006

The Church Must Move Beyond the Bible?

No issue stands alone. The debate over homosexuality is inextricably tied to issues of biblical authority, hermeneutics, the gospel, the identity of the church -- and the list goes on. This becomes clear when those advocating the normalization of hom ...

May 18, 2006

Are We Mere Chemicals? Happiness as a Prescription

Ronald W. Dworkin warns that doctors are now routinely prescribing psychotropic drugs for general unhappiness. The use of mind-altering drugs as a cure for anything short of emotional satisfaction may strike most Americans as, well . . . depressing. ...

May 18, 2006

A Christian Intellectual — Jaroslav Pelikan Dead at 82

Jaroslav Pelikan, one of the Christian tradition's greatest historians of doctrine, died Saturday, May 13, 2006, of lung cancer. Pelikan had served for many years as Sterling Professor of History at Yale University -- holding the university's most pr ...

May 17, 2006

Modesty in Christian Weddings

I knew this would be a hot topic, and so it was. On Tuesday's edition of The Albert Mohler Program we dealt with the issue of modesty as related to the dress of women (especially of brides and bridesmaids) at weddings. My special guest was my wife, M ...

May 17, 2006

Amor Musica — Celebrating Music, Edition 1

1. Conductor Daniel Barenboim presented this year's Reith Lectures for the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]. The lectures were presented in Jerusalem -- a context which added drama and a sense of both history and tragedy to Barenboim's lectures ...

May 16, 2006

Custom Pornography for a Consumerist Age

USA Today reports that the pornography industry is ready to sell ready-to-play videos for televisions that are downloaded from a personal computer and then burned directly onto a DVD. From the article: Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward le ...

May 16, 2006

The Happiness Experts — What Do they Know?

Frank Feredi, a leftish academic in Britain (Professor of Sociology, University of Kent), has had enough of the happiness experts. His essays are usually controversial, and I do not often find myself in enthusiastic agreement with his analysis. Never ...

May 15, 2006

Is the Tragedy of Darfur — Is It Genocide? Does it Matter?

Michael Clough, a specialist on African issues, argues that the murderous tragedy in the Darfur region of Sudan is not, properly speaking, genocide. In, "It's Hell in Darfur, But Is it Genocide?," published in the Mary 14, 2006 edition of The Los An ...

May 15, 2006

Why Intellectuals Stumble

No one will agree with everything Professor Bruce Kuklick of the University of Pennsylvania argues in this opinion piece published Sunday in The Los Angeles Times, but it demands to be read anyway. In "Bright and Wrong," he argues that intellectuals ...

May 15, 2006