The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...
In normal times, an institution like Harvard University thrives on publicity. Then again, these are not normal times. Harvard may be the most elite br...
Can a revolution come down to a pill? Over the past century, tidal waves of moral revolution have transformed society and reshaped our moral landscape...
Pope Francis, considered by Roman Catholic dogma to be Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Patriarch of the West, Bishop of Rome...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...