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The Truth About Torture? A Symposium for Thinking Christians

How should Christians respond to the current controversy over torture and coercive interrogation? Joe Carter of The Evangelical Outpost and Justin Taylor of Between Two Worlds organized an on-line symposium on the question. This is an important resou ...

December 20, 2005

The Sad Case of Dr. Hwang — Cloning, Ethics, and Scientific Fraud

Just a few weeks ago, South Korean scientist Woo-Suk Hwang was at the top of the scientific world -- the focus of global attention. Now, all that has changed. In February 2004, media reports indicated that Dr. Hwang and his colleagues had successful ...

December 20, 2005

Cutting Through the Cultural Chaos — The Meaning of “Brokeback Mountain”

Sometimes, it's the contradictory headlines that tell the story. Last week, USA Today released a prominent article with the headline: "'Brokeback' Rides Into the Mainstream." The same day, The Los Angeles Times featured a story with the headline, "Ca ...

December 19, 2005

Michael Barone — Lessons of the Last 25 Years

Michael Barone, editor of the Almanac of American Politics, and one of the most level-headed observers of the political scene, offers this as his summary of what the last 25 years have taught us. His essay is published in this week's edition of U.S. ...

December 19, 2005

Appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees” Last Night — Controversy Over Childlessness

I appeared last night on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees to talk about the controversy over chosen childlessness as a lifestyle. Anderson Cooper anchored the show from Baghdad while Heidi Collins served as interviewer for the segment on childlessne ...

December 16, 2005

MSNBC Takes a Look at the “Dark Side of Faith” Report

Alex Johnson of MSNBC takes a look at the controversy over Gregory Paul's article and its aftermath [See my previous articles on this controversy here and here.] In his article, published Thursday, Johnson traces the debate. In short, the controvers ...

December 16, 2005

What’s Going on in Iraq? An Election Day of Hope

Iraqi voters began heading for the polls this morning as the nation's first nationwide election for a non-provisional government began. As The New York Times reports, The elections, which are expected to draw as many as 10 million Iraqis to the polls ...

December 15, 2005

What’s Going on in Iran? A Growing Threat to World Peace

What is going on in Iran? The country's ultra-Islamist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has set off round after round of world-wide concern with his threatening statements, even as international concern builds over Iran's development of nuclear techno ...

December 15, 2005

When Will They Ever Learn? Mainline Decline in Perspective

The Episcopal Diocese of Newark, New Jersey has the distinction of once having been led by none other than Bishop John Shelby Spong, who has managed to push heresy into the twilight zone by suggesting that the church must move even beyond theism. Not ...

December 14, 2005

Richard Dawkins — God is an Imaginary Friend

Richard Dawkins, the British biologist whose militant atheism is integral to his worldview of scientism, gave an interview to Beliefnet.com while at the World Congress of Secular Humanism. Some choice excerpts: When people say that the idea of God i ...

December 14, 2005