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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...