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 ...
Enormous questions emerge in the wake of the COVID-19 virus. Some particular questions emerge unexpectedly and explode into a public conversation with significant ramifications. This has happened over the last couple of days with some very controv ...
Just this week, I spoke with a national reporter for a major newspaper who asked me why people, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, are almost universally asking some of the most urgent and important questions any human being could ask. I answere ...
The COVID-19 global pandemic presents the world with innumerable challenges and questions many of us have never faced nor answered. Religious groups in particular grapple with the commitments of their faith and the demands thrust upon the world in th ...
For the better part of the last four decades, the last name of the Congressman who represented the third district in Illinois was Lipinski. From 1982 – 2005, Bill Lipinski served and then in 2005, his son Dan Lipinski was elected. The Lipinski line, ...
An unforeseen global crisis forces the entire world to learn a new vocabulary, set of habits, set of rules, and a new set of expectations—all of this by a tiny, invisible coronavirus known as COVID-19. Indeed, this virus has reshaped the social, mora ...
The culture of death continues to advance across western civilization—most recently in the nation of Germany, where the country’s highest court overturned a legislative ban on euthanasia. Christopher Schuetze of The New York Times wrote, “Germany’ ...
The 2020 Democratic Presidential Caucus in Nevada is now history, and history will record that Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won by a landslide. With 100% of the precincts reporting, Senator Sanders received 46.8% of the vote—a 26% le ...
What holds the Southern Baptist Convention together? What beliefs shape our common faith and define our cooperation in missions and evangelism and theological education? These are central questions in any generation, and every generation of Southe ...
For Christians, even a cursory glance at the day’s headlines will leave us with but one conclusion: the world is lost and confused. That reality is especially evident on a day like Valentine’s Day, where the culture reveals just how much it has lo ...
Below is an excerpt from my new book, The Apostles’ Creed: Discovering Authentic Christianity in an Age of Counterfeits. For the whole of church history, Christians have preserved essential doctrines in and through their hymnody. For example, the ...