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Why Do Couples have Children, Anyway?

Katherine Marsh of The New Republic is hoping to have a baby, so she is taking a folic acid vitamin after breakfast each day. Folic acid, she explains, "is the gateway drug to parenthood--the idea of having a child becomes serious when you start wor ...

March 8, 2006

The Presbyterian Controversy — Look for Yourself

My commentary for today, "The Limits of Conscience and the Authority of the Word of God," takes a look at the trial of Rev. Jane Adams Spahr within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and considers what it means when an individual claims a right of priv ...

March 8, 2006

The Academy Awards — How Much Does Hollywood Really Matter?

In the aftermath of the 2006 Academy Awards ceremony, the big story appears to be the fact that Brokeback Mountain didn't receive the Best Motion Picture of the Year award. After all, the hype and promotion surrounding the Oscar celebration centered ...

March 7, 2006

Richard Baxter — “A Pen in God’s Hand”

Christian History magazine offers a major article on Richard Baxter in its Winter 2006 issue. This will whet your appetite for more: The Reformed Pastor, published in 1656, was the culmination of Baxter's thinking about the ministerial role and ...

March 6, 2006

Conservative Judaism and the Question of Homosexuality

The New York Times reported Sunday that the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of Conservative Judaism (one of American Judaism's three main branches) is to meet this week near Baltimore in order to consider a proposal to lift barriers to homosexu ...

March 6, 2006

Foreign Policy reports that Asia now faces a tragic shortage of young women available to marry. This is not an entirely new development, of course, and the demographic trends have been pointing in this direction for some time. Nevertheless, when Fo ...

March 3, 2006

The 2006 Shepherd’s Conference

I am honored to be with John MacArthur and so many others at the 2006 Shepherd's Conference at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. Thousands of preachers are here, and it is so encouraging to see such fervor for biblical preaching and ...

March 2, 2006

The Christian Family — An Exposition

Iain D. Campbell, Free Church minister in the district of Back, on the Isle of Lewis, offers keen insights into the nature of the Christian family in "On Being a Family," published at Reformation21. "As a Christian pastor, I observe frequently that ...

March 2, 2006

Jerry Falwell, the Jews, and Jesus — A Two-Covenant Theology? Dr. Falwell Clarifies His Position

The Jerusalem Post reported this morning that Dr. Jerry Falwell had accepted a so-called "two covenant" or "dual covenant" theology, believing that Jews and Gentiles are covered by two different covenants, and that the Jewish people therefore do not ...

March 1, 2006

Corrupt Translations and Distorted Doctrine

Richard N. Ostling takes on the very idea of an "inclusive" language Bible translation in a recent article. Here is how he describes the project: Should the Bible call God the "Father" or "Lord"? Should Jesus be termed the "Son" of God or "Son" of " ...

March 1, 2006