The American pope: What does the election of Pope Leo XIV mean?

The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...

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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

Homosexuality in Theological Perspective, Part Four

How will evangelicals respond to the challenge of the Homosexual Movement? And how will the evangelical Church respond to those persons struggling with homosexuality? These are critical questions that, when answered, will indicate the larger directio ...

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

Homosexuality in Theological Perspective, Part Three

Few modern concepts have been as influential as the psychosocial construct of sexual orientation. The concept is now firmly rooted in the national consciousness, and many Americans consider the concept to be thoroughly based in credible scientific re ...

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

Marriage — Does This Generation Have What it Takes?

Dan Haseltine, lead singer of the group, Jars of Clay, has written a moving and insightful article on marriage and the power to last. In "Longevity," published in the current issue of Relevant Magazine, he writes of observing his grandparents and th ...

October 4, 2005

Homosexuality in Theological Perspective, Part Two

The issue of homosexuality is a "first-order" theological issue as it presents itself in the current cultural debate. Fundamental truths essential to the Christian faith are at stake in this confrontation. These truths range from basic issues of thei ...

October 4, 2005