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Christianity Vanishes in Europe — America, Too?

William Murchison takes a good look at the tragic collapse of Christian belief in Europe, describing Europe's vanishing faith in poetic terms: "Centuries of Christian belief swept away in a great cosmic sorting-out; history stood on its head." The ev ...

September 30, 2005

First Three-Person Civil Union in The Netherlands — As Predicted, Polygamy Follows Same-Sex Unions

Brussels Journal is reporting the formalization of the first three-person civil union in The Netherlands. Victor de Bruijn of Roosendaal (a 46-year old man) "married" two women, Bianca (31) and Mirjam (35). The report: "I love both Bianca and Mirjam, ...

September 29, 2005

The Ultimate in Artificiality? British Women Choosing IVF Over Natural Conception

Think you've seen it all? Look at this report from The Telegraph [London]: Women are increasingly seeking inappropriate IVF treatment because they do not have the time or inclination for a sex life and want to "diarise" their busy lives. Wealthy care ...

September 29, 2005

The Ties That Bind — James Q. Wilson on Marriage

Sociologist James Q. Wilson -- one of the most influential public policy analysts of our times -- considers our culture's conflicted state of mind on the issue of marriage. As always, his ideas are worthy of serious attention. Wilson's article, "The ...

September 29, 2005

Is Christianity Dangerous to Society?

Here's how to stack a deck for a false argument. Collect unrelated statistics and pass them off as proving causation. A decline in steel production may be an item of interest, but it doesn't have anything to do with a rise in asparagus eating among r ...

September 28, 2005

Say it Isn’t So — FEMA to Reimburse Churches for Aid?

The Washington Post and other papers are reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to use taxpayer money to reimburse churches and other religious groups for aid suppied in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This is a ho ...

September 28, 2005

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