A lion of the pulpit, now in Christ’s presence: The relentless expository passion of John F. MacArthur, Jr., 1939-2025

He was the greatest expositor of his times. One of the ironies of John MacArthur is that, to the end, he insisted that any God-called preacher of the ...

August 14, 2025

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“Sex and Religion in Migration” No, I’m Not Making this Up

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music, The Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian & Gay Studies, and other Yale University programs have announced a conference entitled, "Sex and Religion in Migration." Curious? See the announcement: Welcome to the web ...

September 15, 2005

The Pledge of Allegiance Controversy

My commentary for today, "Is the Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional?," deals with the meaning of Judge Lawrence Karlton's ruling that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in the public schools is unconstitutional. The fallout from this ridic ...

September 15, 2005

Cosmetic Products from the Skin of Executed Prisoners?

The Guardian [London] reports that a Chinese cosmetic company is preparing a line of beauty products for sale in Europe that uses skin harvested from the corpses of executed prisoners. Consider these excerpts from the paper's investigative report: A ...

September 15, 2005

Redefining Humanity Through “Transformation Art?”

While on the subject of the ethics of cosmetic surgery, look back with me to an art exhibit held earlier this year at the New York Academy of Sciences in Manhattan. "Face Value: Personal Surgery & Transformation Art" was on exhibit back in the sp ...

September 15, 2005

More Americans Living Alone

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that more Americans are living in single-person households. According to a report in the Associated Press, "the number of Americans living alone has exceeded the number of households comprised of the classic nuclear fam ...

September 14, 2005

Hamsters Impacted by Cigarette Smoke

From the latest scientific research: Hamsters exposed to cigarette smoke are significantly less likely to conceive, according to a recent study from the University of California at Riverside. The researchers found that he microscopic hairs, or cilia, ...

September 14, 2005

Culture Watch — Cosmetic Surgery and the Customized Self

Cosmetic surgery is becoming a rite of passage for many women -- a way to reinvent the self by the skill of a surgeon's knife. This is a major cultural shift, as cosmetic surgery is transformed from an eccentricity of the rich into a new normal for m ...

September 14, 2005

The Roberts Hearings and the Battle of Ideas

Confirmation hearings for the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts as the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court began Monday in Washington. At long last, the real battle of ideas now begins. This is an argument worth having, for it goes to the ...

September 13, 2005

Is Same-Sex Marriage Inevitable?

The furor over California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's promised veto of the same-sex marriage bill that passed the state's legislature has set off a firestorm of outrage among gay rights activists and the nation's liberal commentators. Imbedded w ...

September 12, 2005

Jonathan Edwards for the Age of Therapy?

Allen C. Guelzo has written an insightful and argumentative review essay on recent interpretations of Jonathan Edwards. In "Unpalatable to Modern Sensibilities," Guelzo reviews Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical, by Philip F. Gura -- and then go ...

September 10, 2005