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The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...

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Ligon Duncan on Open Theism

Ligon Duncan, senior minister of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi and president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals has written a fine article offering a biblical and theological critique of open theism -- the theological move ...

September 28, 2005

The Politicized University and its Future

The American university campus has become some of the most politicized real estate on the planet. In some sense, it has always been so. Controversy is nothing new to the campus culture, after all. Nevertheless, the political liberalism of the academi ...

September 27, 2005

Where Did the Boys Go? Missing Males on the College Campus

USA Today editorialized on the new and undeniable gender imbalance on the college and university campus. For every 100 men receiving bachelor's degrees, women receive 135. That's a huge disparity, and USA Today describes the statistic as "ominous for ...

September 27, 2005

Are Women Their Own Worst Enemy? “Postfeminists” and the Mommy Track

Columnist Cathy Young sees trouble among young college women. She responds to the recent report that increasing numbers of young college women intend to be stay-at-home mothers for their children. Writing in The Boston Globe, she observes: What's cle ...

September 27, 2005

Adam Nicolson on Biblical Illiteracy

Adam Nicolson is a distinguished British historian and author of an important book on the history of the King James Bible. He writes in The Wall Street Journal: It might be said that a civilization consists, at its core, of these easily transmitted ...

September 26, 2005

Cussing Kids and Out-to-Lunch Parents

Language changes with time, and words both appear and disappear in their season. Yet, in every age, certain words function as profane language, curse words, intended for maximum offense and shock value. These days, it's getting harder and harder to s ...

September 26, 2005

Consciousness Raising 101 — The Modern Plague of Malaria

Except for occasional (and rational) scares about influenza and the fear of biological weapons, most Americans sleep soundly at night without the fear that they or their children will die of infectious disease. Not so in much of the world, particular ...

September 25, 2005

Charles Spurgeon on “Advanced Thinkers”

Some claim that Charles Spurgeon was the most voluminous writer in the history of the English language. Given the fact that his writings -- often based on his preaching -- were a publishing phenomenon of Victorian times and remain a publishing phenom ...

September 25, 2005

Scalia on “Moderate Judges”

Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court is a master wordsmith. Just take a look at this excerpt from a speech he recently presented in California: Now the Senate is looking for moderate judges, mainstream judges. What in the world is a moder ...

September 23, 2005

The French Connection — Worldview, Missionaries, and Fertility Rates

Over the past two centuries or so, France has transformed itself into one of the most secularized cultures on earth. The worldview of the French is increasingly devoid of any Christian reference, and a particularly radical form of secularism fills mu ...

September 23, 2005