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...
Last week, I was honored to present the Day-Higginbotham Lectures at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and to present plenary addresses to the Evangelical Theological Society/Southwest Region on the sufficiency of Scripture. I will be postin ...
Last week, on the radio program we looked at the problems of over-wired kids and young people who hurt themselves as a habit -- the problem usually known as "cutting." Both programs brought an avalanche of callers and e-mails, and for good reason. Th ...
Harvard sociology professor Orlando Patterson, author of Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries, offers another interesting analysis of why young black men are falling so far behind other American demographic groups in te ...
Government regulators now report that two more women have died after taking RU-486, the abortion pill that pro-abortion forces have championed in the name of women's rights. From The Boston Globe: Two more women have died after using the abortion p ...
Last week, Londoners were treated to a public celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Selfish Gene by Oxford scientist Richard Dawkins, a vociferous opponent of Christianity. The event, held at the London School of Economics, was a big event, and ...
Matt Dubay wants to level the playing field between men and women when it comes to having babies -- unwanted babies, that is. This sad excuse for manhood from Michigan wants a male equivalent to Roe v. Wade -- a determination that men should not ha ...
Abdul Rahman, the Afghan man on trial for converting to Christianity, still faces the prospect of being executed for his faith if convicted by the Afghan court. [See extensive coverage below.] Here is the latest as reported by The New York Times: ...
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has written a letter to President George W. Bush expressing grave concern about the trial of Abdul Rahman for converting to Christianity. Mr. Rahman is on trial in Kabul, Afghanistan, and is thre ...
Back in November of 2003, religious freedom specialist Paul Marshall warned that the new Afghan constitution was a disaster for religious liberty. Senior Fellow at Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom, Marshall published his warning in the N ...
Media reports indicate that the trial of an Afghan man charged with converting to Christianity may be diverted by a judicial finding that the man, Abdul Rahman, is insane. The trial judge hinted at this development in recent days, and building inter ...