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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Delaying Marriage — Another Look at the Costs

Danielle Crittenden, author of What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us, has written a must-read article, "The Cost of Delaying Marriage." The article has recently been republished by Boundless.org. This is an issue I address often, and I appreciate Crittende ...

September 10, 2005

The Brave New World of Designer Babies?

Scientists in the United Kingdom have been pressing the ethical boundaries in biomedical research for some time now, but an announcement made today takes us further toward the posthuman future many of us have been dreading. Even as Britain's Human Fe ...

September 9, 2005

‘Decivilization’ Not as Far Away as We Think?

Historian Timothy Garton Ash argues that what he calls "decivilization" lies very close to the surface of human life. Add a natural disaster or human tragedy, and the base instincts of human nature soon triumph over order and respect for other human ...

September 8, 2005

Gov. Schwarzenegger Promises to Veto Same-Sex Marriage Bill

From The San Francisco Chronicle: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, under growing pressure from his conservative supporters, promised Wednesday to veto the gay-marriage bill passed less than a day earlier by the Democrat-led Legislature. The Legislature's ...

September 8, 2005

California Assembly Passes Gay Marriage Bill

From The Los Angeles Times: The California Legislature made history Tuesday as the Assembly passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. With no votes to spare, California's lawmakers became the first in the United States to act without a court order ...

September 7, 2005

Bad Theology Watch — Niall Ferguson’s Naturalism

Niall Ferguson -- our greatest living historian of empire, and a generally sound thinker -- really misses the mark when he addresses the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. Writing in The Telegraph [London], Ferguson [a professor of history at Harvard Univ ...

September 6, 2005

The Roberts Nomination and the Future of the Supreme Court

Few observers were shocked when President George W. Bush nominated Judge John Roberts to succeed Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on Monday. After all, Judge Roberts seems to represent all that President Bush expects of a jurist -- a conservative j ...

September 6, 2005

George Will on “Leviathan in Louisiana”

George Will's "The Last Word" column in this week's issue of Newsweek raises several of the most important questions posed by Hurrican Katrina and its aftermath -- inclusing the purpose of government and the nature of humanity.  In "Leviathan in Loui ...

September 6, 2005

Bad Theology Watch — Who Speaks on God’s Behalf?

Sadly there is no shortage of Christians ready to offer an inside tip on the purposes of the Almighty. Instead of standing silent before the humbling mystery of the Divine will, these souls are ready to hurl judgment upon their neighbors. Alan Cooper ...

September 5, 2005

Hope Amidst the Heartbreak — The Missing Children of New Orleans

The stories pouring out of New Orleans and the other devastated areas of the Gulf coast carrry an incredible emotional punch -- and rightly so. Among these stories, the account of a little 6-year-old boy shepherding five toddlers and holding an infan ...

September 5, 2005