Every generation has its own formative moments. In just a few generations, the prominent memories shifted from “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember Pearl...
For decades now, leading American conservatives have accused the political left of being soft on crime. This charge against the political left in the ...
Committee hearings and meetings of the U.S. Senate are often routine and uneventful, but one hearing this week turned into something truly consequenti...
To see him around children was to catch a glimpse of his gift. Over dinner in our home, my wife and I noticed that Dr. James Dobson had chosen to sit ...
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 ...
The resignation of Lawrence H. Summers as president of Harvard University raises anew the most important question facing higher education today -- Is there any hope for academic and institutional reform? After all, President Summers' plans for refor ...
Newsweek magazine recently published this correction: In the Feb. 6 article "Cut, Thrust and Christ," we misquoted Jerry Falwell as using the words "assault ministry." In fact, Falwell was referring to "a salt ministry," a reference to Matthew 5:13 ...
Alex and Brett Harris of The Rebelution have written a fine article for Boundless.org on the extension of adolescence into what should be adulthood. They explain: Adultescents (we'll refer to them as "kidults") often live with their parents, even a ...
Scientific American has published a review of several new books on Charles Darwin and Darwinism in its latest issue. The review is by Jonathan Weiner, author of The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. Weiner's review will get your at ...
Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent for The Times [London] reports that religious educators in Great Britain plan to use Superman as a way of getting school children to think about Jesus. This is how Gledhill introduces her report: The comic book ...
Writer Anne Lamott is known for being plain spoken (an understatement) and controversial, and yet she has a readership among many evangelicals. They may well be shocked to read her recent op-ed piece in The Los Angeles Times on abortion. She minces n ...
Commonweal is a left-leaning Roman Catholic magazine that is often at odds with the Vatican. For an evangelical theologian, reading Commonweal offers insight into the thinking of the Catholic left -- a pattern amazingly similar to liberal Protestant ...
The Presbyterian Church (USA), based in Louisville, Kentucky, now projects a loss of 85,000 members in 2006, after an estimated 65,000 loss in 2005. That adds up to a projected loss of over 2 million members since 1967. The Presbyterian Layman repor ...
The Los Angeles Times reports that teenagers are now attending "condom parties" known as "Glove Affair." At least some area schools -- including middle schools -- are hosting the parties. Writer Randye Hoder described the parties, with particular re ...