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 ...
Novelist Annie Proulx short story, "Brokeback Mountain," is about to hit the big screen as a major motion picture. Yet, even before the movie hits the screen, the story is hitting controversy. Cody McNair, a film producer who is the son of Texas oil ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...