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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

John Leo on “The Parent Trap”

Columnist John Leo of U.S. News and World Report provides an excellent summary of a notewrothy controversy in Lexington, Massachusetts. In his article, "The Parent Trap," published in the magazine's current issue, Leo explains how David and Tonia Pa ...

October 7, 2005

TIME Magazine on Gay Teens

TIME's current cover story, "The Battle Over Gay Teens," is a cultural development in itself. The very fact that the magazine would devote a cover story to the controversy over teenagers dealing with homosexuality is highly significant. Most readers ...

October 6, 2005

So, Are Computers Good for Children?

Lowell Monke offers important insights in his new article published in the current edition of Orion. In "Charlotte's Webpage: Why Children Shouldn't Have the World at Their Fingertips," Monke warns that children who spend a great deal of time on the ...

October 5, 2005

What Did the Court Intend Roe v. Wade to Mean?

Just a couple of weeks ago, David Savage of The Los Angeles Times wrote a most interesting article on Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on demand. The article seems to have attracted little attention, and that ...

October 5, 2005

An Evangelical Justice? Two Key Articles on Harriet Miers

As reported yesterday, Harriet Miers is member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas, Texas. President Bush's most recent nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court has attracted a great deal of media attention, and at least to major newspapers have publ ...

October 5, 2005

What Should We Think of Harriet Miers?

President George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers as the new associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court caught almost everyone by surprise. After all, Harriet Miers was -- at least until yesterday -- relatively unknown outside of the White Hous ...

October 4, 2005