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Disaster Plans Must Include Pet Evacuations?

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 ...

May 23, 2006

Seminary Self-Defense for “Besieged Liberals?”

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 ...

May 23, 2006

I Finally Agree With John Shelby Spong

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 ...

May 22, 2006

We Are Put On Notice By a Medium

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 ...

May 22, 2006

Truth Has Nothing to Do With Them

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 ...

May 22, 2006

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