Summer Reading List 2025 R. Albert Mohler, Jr. July 7, 2025 Hello, I'm Albert Mohler. Welcome to In the Library. I'm going to talk about my 2025 ...
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...
President George W. Bush announced the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This is a nomination of historic significance and a nominee of true stature. Judge Alito brings a lifetime of legal scho ...
Kyle Lake, pastor of University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, died Sunday after being electrocuted while performing a baptism. According to the Associated Press, UniversityBaptistChurch Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was standing in water up to his shoulder in ...
Jonathan V. Last of The Weekly Standard writes of the incredible expansion of gambling in American culture -- and suggests that gambling is becoming just another form of entertainment [See "Losers' Poker," posted October 28, 2005]. According to Last ...
The withdrawal of Harriet Miers as a nominee to the United States Supreme Court brings an end to one of the most awkward and confusing chapters in the history of the high court. Furthermore, it avoids a nasty confrontation and the possibility of emba ...
In his massive work, A History of the American People, British historian Paul Johnson observed that American history raises some of the most fundamental questions of meaning and morality. The first question Johnson identified was whether a nation can ...
My commentary published yesterday, "Why Isn't 'Spirituality' Enough," included a look at what professor Leigh E. Schmidt of Princeton University now proposes -- an affirmation of "spirituality" as an antidote of sorts to what he sees as overly-dogmat ...
The University of Edinburgh now plans to ban the Bible -- from distribution in the dorms at least. As The Times [London] reports: Edinburgh University is set to ban Bibles from its student halls of residence amid concern that the Holy Book is "disc ...
John Keegan is one of the world's greatest living military historians. That's what makes his take on the trial of Saddam Hussein so interesting [see article]. Keegan argues that Saddam should meet the same fate as the Nazi war criminals. In his wo ...
"England expects that every man will do his duty." -- Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's call to battle, October 21, 1805. Today marks the bicentennial of Britain's victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain at the Battle of Trafalgar. History ...
Just a few days ago, the Air Force announced that it had withdrawn a set of newly-issued guidelines that allowed chaplains to evangelize non-affiliated Air Force personnel. The Associated Press reported that the Air Force rescinded the guidelines in ...