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 ...
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 ...
Last week I looked at the false argument behind Ruth Gledhill's article in The Times [London] purporting to show that nations with a higher commitment to Christianity also experienced higher rates of various social pathologies. As I argued then, Gled ...
In every age the Church is confronted with cultural and ethical challenges which test both the conviction and the compassion of the Body of Christ. Since World War II, American Christians have struggled with issues of racism, war, abortion, and sexua ...
Last year, doctors at the Groningen Academic Hospital in the Netherlands applied for permission to perform euthanasia on babies -- even as they admitted they were already doing so. In 2003, the Dutch Medical Society appealed to the government to crea ...
In what must look like an exercise in self-parody, NBC plans to broadcast a new prime-time soap opera entitled "Inconceivable," which is fictionally located within a fertility clinic. Honest. Here's the scoop from NBC's Web site: This delightful ense ...
William Murchison takes a good look at the tragic collapse of Christian belief in Europe, describing Europe's vanishing faith in poetic terms: "Centuries of Christian belief swept away in a great cosmic sorting-out; history stood on its head." The ev ...
Brussels Journal is reporting the formalization of the first three-person civil union in The Netherlands. Victor de Bruijn of Roosendaal (a 46-year old man) "married" two women, Bianca (31) and Mirjam (35). The report: "I love both Bianca and Mirjam, ...
Think you've seen it all? Look at this report from The Telegraph [London]: Women are increasingly seeking inappropriate IVF treatment because they do not have the time or inclination for a sex life and want to "diarise" their busy lives. Wealthy care ...
Sociologist James Q. Wilson -- one of the most influential public policy analysts of our times -- considers our culture's conflicted state of mind on the issue of marriage. As always, his ideas are worthy of serious attention. Wilson's article, "The ...
Here's how to stack a deck for a false argument. Collect unrelated statistics and pass them off as proving causation. A decline in steel production may be an item of interest, but it doesn't have anything to do with a rise in asparagus eating among r ...