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...
As many had warned, the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has now spread into neighboring Chad, with Arab gunmen crossing the border and creating a new refugee emergency. As The New York Times reports: Arab gunmen from Darfur have pushed across t ...
Columnist George F. Will discussed the Animal Welfare Bill proposed by Britain's Labour government in a recent Newsweek column. The bill sounds like a parody of political correctness, but it is actually further evidence of how the concept of "rights" ...
The death of a man who brought so many, including my own family, so much wholesome laughter should not pass without notice here. Don Knotts was most famous for playing "Barney Fife," the awkward and nervous deputy to TV's Sheriff Andy Griffith. The ...
I seriously doubt that many Americans take Dolly Parton's views on any subject with much concern, but she has decided to join the ranks of the politically correct in a big way. Yesterday, in the pages of USA Today, she made a plea for tolerating diff ...
This week, The Christian Century features an interview with Elizabeth Marquardt, author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce. Marquardt's research helps to document the fact that there is no such thing as the "good divorce," ...
Are stay at home moms a threat to civilization? Those of you who are shocked by this question should take note of the fact that ABC's "Good Morning America" program devoted segments to this question on two successive days, featuring the arguments of ...
I was interested and somewhat amused to see The Wall Street Journal quote Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz in its front-page story on the resignation of Harvard president Lawrence Summers [see entries below]. Here is how the paper set up the qu ...
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to accept the government's appeal on the partial-birth abortion law is good news, and observers of the court will be watching closely as the justices hear the case in the fall. As The Los Angeles Times explained, "T ...
The diagnosis of cancer is one that will come to millions of Christians. How are we to respond? That was the question on yesterday's edition of The Albert Mohler Program, when my guest was Dr. Don Whitney, Professor of Spirituality at The Southern Ba ...
The tumult at Harvard University that culminated in the resignation of the university's president Lawrence H. Summers yesterday, provides a good opportunity to be reminded of that university's founding vision and mission -- and for a reflection on ho ...