Every generation has its own formative moments. In just a few generations, the prominent memories shifted from “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember Pearl...
For decades now, leading American conservatives have accused the political left of being soft on crime. This charge against the political left in the ...
Committee hearings and meetings of the U.S. Senate are often routine and uneventful, but one hearing this week turned into something truly consequenti...
To see him around children was to catch a glimpse of his gift. Over dinner in our home, my wife and I noticed that Dr. James Dobson had chosen to sit ...
Architecture critic Witold Rybczynski offers an essay and slide show on modern megachurches at Slate.com. The photography is striking, but Rbyczynski's definition of megachurch has everything to do with the size of the building -- not theology (the n ...
Last week, British newspapers reported that a research study had indicated that children raised by their mothers perform better than those who spend time in daycare or other institutional settings. As The Telegraph [London] reported, Mothers were i ...
Over at OneTrueGodBlog, Hugh Hewitt asked for principles that would help guide Christians in making decisions about how to respond to human needs with financial support and disaster relief. The awful earthquake in Pakistan comes quick on the heels o ...
In the current issue of New York magazine, writer Kurt Andersen takes on the Intelligent Design movement. Actually, he takes on the entire structure of Christian belief. His assertion of agnosticism is unremarkable in the elite urban culture of New ...
"There are three states of the soul -- ignorance, opinion, knowledge -- those who are in ignorance are the Pagans, those in knowledge, the true Church, and those in opinion, the Heretics." --Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata. The Los Angeles Times ...
Jack Wertheimer writes about the problem of a falling Jewish birthrate in the October issue of Commentary. He writes with directness and insight: Not long ago, a Manhattan rabbi stunned his congregants by informing them that the future of the Jewis ...
One of the most powerful movements of the last half-century directed its energeis toward avoidance of what it termed the "population explosion." Some leaders in the movement were ideologues driven by contremporary environmental theories. Others wer ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...