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Children Need Mothers — No Kidding

Last week, British newspapers reported that a research study had indicated that children raised by their mothers perform better than those who spend time in daycare or other institutional settings. As The Telegraph [London] reported, Mothers were i ...

October 12, 2005

Priorities and Accountability in Times of Crisis

Over at OneTrueGodBlog, Hugh Hewitt asked for principles that would help guide Christians in making decisions about how to respond to human needs with financial support and disaster relief. The awful earthquake in Pakistan comes quick on the heels o ...

October 11, 2005

The Condescension of the Secular Left

In the current issue of New York magazine, writer Kurt Andersen takes on the Intelligent Design movement. Actually, he takes on the entire structure of Christian belief. His assertion of agnosticism is unremarkable in the elite urban culture of New ...

October 11, 2005

The Heretic’s Story — A Play About John Shelby Spong

"There are three states of the soul -- ignorance, opinion, knowledge -- those who are in ignorance are the Pagans, those in knowledge, the true Church, and those in opinion, the Heretics." --Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata. The Los Angeles Times ...

October 10, 2005

Another Take on the Population Question — The Jewish Birthrate

Jack Wertheimer writes about the problem of a falling Jewish birthrate in the October issue of Commentary. He writes with directness and insight: Not long ago, a Manhattan rabbi stunned his congregants by informing them that the future of the Jewis ...

October 10, 2005

The Real Population Crisis — Shrinking Numbers

One of the most powerful movements of the last half-century directed its energeis toward avoidance of what it termed the "population explosion." Some leaders in the movement were ideologues driven by contremporary environmental theories. Others wer ...

October 9, 2005

Pray for the Suffering in South Asia — 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake

A massive earthquake in northern Pakistan and India has killed as many as 30,000 people in the Hindu Kush mountains alone, according to some recent estimates. The quake struck Saturday morning but, due to the remote nature of the quake-damages areas ...

October 9, 2005

Euthanasia and Autonomy — A View from Oxford

The Bishop of Oxford (Church of England) is not the type to be hung up on orthodoxy. The Right Reverend Richard Harries is a determined theological liberal who takes predictably "progressive" positions on just about any issue. I was surprised, ther ...

October 9, 2005

More on the Controversy at Dartmouth

My commentary for Friday, "Division at Dartmouth--A Christian Speaks His Mind," deals with the controversy over Noah Riner's convocation address at Dartmouth College. Noah was my guest on Friday's edition of The Albert Mohler Program. Read his conv ...

October 8, 2005

Just What Does “A Christian Environment” Mean?

Novelist Annie Proulx short story, "Brokeback Mountain," is about to hit the big screen as a major motion picture. Yet, even before the movie hits the screen, the story is hitting controversy. Cody McNair, a film producer who is the son of Texas oil ...

October 7, 2005