A lion of the pulpit, now in Christ’s presence: The relentless expository passion of John F. MacArthur, Jr., 1939-2025

He was the greatest expositor of his times. One of the ironies of John MacArthur is that, to the end, he insisted that any God-called preacher of the ...

August 14, 2025

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Why Do Supreme Court Justices Shift Leftward?

Authors Jon D. Hanson and Adam Benforado argue that structural, intellectual, and social factors all play a part in the leftward drift evident in so many justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Their argument appears in "The Drifters: Why the Supreme Cou ...

January 12, 2006

“The Land of Never Wrong” — The Real World of Big-Time Sports

John Feinstein offers an insightful and timely argument in today's edition of The Washington Post. In "Teach the 'Good Kids,'" Feinstein explains that athletes often get a pass on bad behavior -- even criminal behavior -- because teams are desperate ...

January 11, 2006

Is the “Hundred Years’ War” Winding Down?

George Melloan, an influential columnist and international deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal, offers a most interesting perspective of the Israeli-Arab conflct in "Reviewing the Hundred Years' War," published in today's edition of the paper. ...

January 10, 2006

Transhumanism and Human Nature — Radical Human Enhancement in the News

Reporter Elaine Jarvik of the Deseret News [Salt Lake City, Utah] offers a summary of the issues involved in transhumanisn and radical forms of human enhancement in "Shall We Enhance?," published in the January 7, 2006 edition of the paper. She repo ...

January 10, 2006

The Ultrasound Generation — Ten Million Missing Baby Girls in India

Just how will the feminists respond to this? The Times [London] now reports that the use of ultrasound imaging technology has led to the abortion of approximately 500,000 girl babies each year -- that's more than 10 million over the past twenty year ...

January 10, 2006

Prayer and the Victory of God — John Piper

John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis and teacher at Desiring God, preached a message entitled "Prayer and the Victory of God" on Sunday, January 1, 2006. In this message, he stated: My aim and my prayer through this message ...

January 9, 2006

You Will Hear About This Sooner or Later

A play, "Southern Baptist Sissies," written by Del Shore is currently playing at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles. Here is a summary of the play taken from a review posted at the play's official Web site: 'Southern Baptist Sissies' is cathartic as ...

January 9, 2006

Jesus and Cannabis — What Next?

The Guardian, one of Great Britain's major newspapers (admittedly, one of the most liberal as well) decided that this article was worth publishing. In "Jesus 'Healed Using Cannabis,'" reporter Duncan Campbell used an article in the pro-drugs magazin ...

January 9, 2006

Life in a Mining Town — Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys (made into the 1999 movie, October Sky) and the Coalwood Series, offers a personal insight into what it was like to grow up in a West Virginia coal miner's family in Coaltown, WV: My mother hated the mine. She saw ...

January 9, 2006

Stem Cell Fraud — The Personal Toll

This article from The Los Angeles Times speaks for itself: The boy who became known as "Donor 2" was propped up in a wheelchair when a team of esteemed scientists strolled into his hospital room nearly three years ago.  The boy, 9-year-old Kim Hyeon ...

January 9, 2006