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The Bible Cut Down to Size — Scripture and the Modern Attention Span

"This is a gateway to the Bible for everybody. We have to face the fact we live in an overwhelmingly secular society and must do all we can to present people with the story and what Christianity is about." Those are the words of Rev. Martin Hinton, a ...

September 22, 2005

Choosing Motherhood Over Career? A Trend Among Young Women at Elite Universities

The New York Times reports that a growing number of college young women are aiming for full-time motherhood as a major career aspiration. This is big news in itself, but the fact that the report appears in The New York Times makes this development al ...

September 22, 2005

Young Christian Bloggers Make Their Mark on the Blogosphere

The rise of young Christian bloggers --many in their teens -- is a welcome development in the blogosphere. My guest on Tuesday's edition of The Albert Mohler Program was Agent Tim. Tim Sweetman is fifteen years old, and he writes a very fine blog, ad ...

September 21, 2005

Gay? Fine by Them

I just came across a blog announcing that a group known as the Covenant Renewal Fellowship at Princeton Theological Seminary plans to hand out t-shirts reading "gay? fine by me" on the campus today. As the leader of the effort stated, "We're hoping t ...

September 20, 2005

A New Project — “One True God Blog”

My friend Hugh Hewitt has started a new project and he has invited me to be a part of it. "One True God Blog" is a forum for genuine and respectful theological discussion. It's just getting started, but you won't want to miss it. In addition to Hugh ...

September 20, 2005

New Teen Sex Study Raises Difficult Issues

The National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a massive research report on the sexual habits of Americans aged 15 to 44. The most interesting data concerns the teenagers. As reported in The W ...

September 20, 2005

Brave New World Watch — Face Transplants?

Press reports indicate that a leading American medical center, The Cleveland Clinic, is ready to start an experimental program in human face transplantation. This represents a host of truly ominous and complicated ethical issues, ranging from what wo ...

September 19, 2005

Arthur Schlesinger, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Doctrine of Sin

Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., one of the paladins of American liberalism, remembers the late Reinhold Niebuhr in Sunday's edition of The New York Times. Schlesinger and his generation were shaped by Niebuhr's "rediscovery" of the doctrine of sin ...

September 19, 2005

Delaying Babies = Defying Nature and Risking Heartbreak

Here's a bit of common sense verified by science and modern medicine. Delaying marriage often leads to a delay in having babies. Now, BBC News reports that women delaying children until after age 35 are risking both health and heartbreak. Over the la ...

September 17, 2005

Brave New World Watch — Offshore Artificial Insemination Clinics

The Guardian [London} reports: Fertility ships where British couples will be able to receive treatment forbidden in the UK could soon be anchored off the coast in international waters. Entrepreneurs are planning to hire ships to offer treatments that ...

September 17, 2005