President Biden’s unpardonable pardon

President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...

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A New Experience — I Agree with Michael Kinsley

Michael Kinsley, a prolific liberal thinker now associated with The Los Angeles Times, is a writer with whom I rarely agree. He's smart and articulate (he was the founding editor of Slate magazine), but he can also be infuriating. So, when I saw his ...

November 18, 2005

Are You “Metrospiritual”

So now there's yet another word for our modern spiritual confusion. Ariana Speyer reports that the newest packaging of pop spirituality is the "metrospiritual wave." Writing at Beliefnet.com, Speyer explains that the "metrospiritual" phenomenon eme ...

November 17, 2005

An Honest Proposal — A Candid Admission

Dan Savage, writing in today's edition of The New York Times, suggests that liberals should work to amend the U.S. Constitution in order to add "privacy" to the enumerated rights explicitly included in our governing document. His proposal: If the R ...

November 16, 2005

A Patriarch Passes — The Death of Dr. Adrian Rogers

The news from Memphis brings to a close one of the greatest pulpit ministries of our times. Dr. Adrian Rogers died early this morning after a brave fight against cancer. Few men have left such an impact on a church, a denomination, and the larger wor ...

November 15, 2005

Meeting Maureen Dowd — I’m Necessary After All

Maureen Dowd, one of the nation's most articulate and quotable liberal columnists, was in Washington, DC today for a book-signing appearance at one of the local Border's bookstores. I was in town to deliver a public lecture on "A Christian Vision of ...

November 15, 2005

“Mini-Porn” — A Major Problem

The Washington Post reports today that "mini-porn" is soon to become a big deal. In "Mini-Porn Could Be Mega-Business," reporter Mike Musgrove describes what this phenomenon represents: Pornography is spreading from the computer desktop to the smal ...

November 15, 2005

President Carter Responds to My Commentary

Former President Jimmy Carter has responded to my commentary on his book, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. I stand by my review, but out of respect for Mr. Carter, I will gladly publish his response in full: ___________________________ ...

November 14, 2005

The Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader relates an almost unbelievable account of a visit to Lexington by the national chaplain for Planned Parenthood. According to the paper, Planned Parenthood officials were shocked when very few ministers would agree to ...

November 14, 2005

Conservative Episcopalians Issue Warning

The New York Times reports today that conservative leaders in the Episcopal Church USA and the international Anglican communion have served notice that their communion is about to be split apart on the issues of biblical authority and theological acc ...

November 12, 2005

A New Threat to Human Dignity — Down’s Syndrome Revisited

The New England Journal of Medicine reported Thursday that doctors have developed a test that will screen for Down's syndrome as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. The Washington Post and The New York Times also reported the story. According ...

November 11, 2005