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Hiroshima in Debate — What Does it Mean

My commentary today, "Hiroshima and the Burden of History," attempts to consider the moral issues that remain even now, sixty years after the dropping of the bomb. With the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing coming tomorrow, we should look for inte ...

August 5, 2005

By Their Vows You Shall Know Them

The Times [London] is reporting that many American couples are adjusting wedding vows to new concepts of marriage. "Til death do us part" is giving way to "for as long as our marriage shall serve the common good." There is something deeply sad about ...

August 5, 2005

A Mother’s Last Gift

On Tuesday, Susan Torres gave birth to the baby girl for whom she had hoped and prayed. Shortly thereafter, she was removed from life-support systems. Within a few short hours of her daughter's birth, Susan Torres was dead. The baby was delivered by ...

August 4, 2005

Korean Scientists Claim to Have Cloned a Dog

According to reproductive biologists, the dog represents a particularly difficult and complicated reproductive system. That's what makes the claim made earlier today by a group of Korean scientists all the more interesting. According to The New York ...

August 4, 2005

Modesty and the Law: Senators Ask — Judge Roberts Answers

Judge John G. Roberts, President George W. Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, responded to a series of questions posed by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In a lengthy written document, Judge Roberts answered a wide range of question ...

August 3, 2005

Intelligent Design in the News Again

Yesterday, President George W. Bush told a group of Texas journalists that he supports the teaching of Intelligent Design in the public schools. "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," the President said. ...

August 2, 2005

The President and the Boy Scouts

On Sunday, President George W. Bush addressed several thousand boys at the 2005 National Boy Scout Jamboree. The President spoke after the Jamboree had been marked by tragedy and great dificulty.  Just days before, four adult scout leaders had been e ...

August 2, 2005

Does a ‘Faith Vacuum’ Haunt Europe?

Historian Niall Ferguson apparently doesn't believe in God, but he does want others to believe. If this sounds odd, it is because Ferguson -- often an unually insightful thinker -- believes that the collapse of belief in Europe threatens to undermine ...

August 2, 2005

The Urgency of Church Discipline — Christianity Today’s Article Series

Christianity Today has published an important series of articles on church discipline. Given the absence of biblical discipline from the life of most congregations, these articles are urgently-needed reminders of what is st stake. The six articles ar ...

August 1, 2005

The Born-Again Bank Robber?

A man once wanted as Mexico's "Public Enemy Number One" has been arrested in California, living under an alias and claiming to be born again. Alfredo Rios Galeana, arrested on charges including bank robbery, had escaped from a Mexican prison and then ...

July 31, 2005