The American pope: What does the election of Pope Leo XIV mean?

The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...

June 9, 2025

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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

Senator Frist Shifts Position on Stem Cells

Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), the Senate Majority Leader, has broken with the White House and will support wider use of tax dollars to support embryonic stem-cell research. In a lengthy speech delivered yesterday to the Senate, Sen. Frist announced that ...

July 30, 2005

The Sexual Revolution — What Really Happened?

Author Theodore Dalrymple, a British doctor serving in an inner-city hospital, writes of the cultural revolutions of the last decades of the twentieth century in Our Culture, What's Left of It [Ivan R. Dee, 2005]. Addressing the sexual revolution, Da ...

July 29, 2005

Reaping What We Sow–The Harvest of Moral Relativism

A culture, like an individual, reaps what it sows. The seed of honor produces a harvest of honorable acts. The seed of anger eventually yields violence. The law of the harvest is part of the divine design for human society, and it allows no exception ...

July 29, 2005

The Culture of Death Speaks — Is Anyone Listening?

The Times [London] reports today that the abortion rate in Great Britain has taken a significant upward turn. While some expressed dismay at this news, others took a very different view. Consider this section of the paper's article: Ann Furedi, chief ...

July 28, 2005

Machen on Christianity as a Way of Life ‘Founded Upon a Doctrine’

There is much conversation these days about the role of doctrine in the Christian life. I was recently reminded of how J. Gresham Machen addressed this issue in the context of the controversies of his day. On September 11, 1924, Machen responded to a ...

July 27, 2005

I Guess It All Depends on What “Celibacy” Means?

The Church of England is trying its best to avoid achieving a clear position on the issue of homosexuality, even for clergy. Yesterday, the church's House of Bishops found itself publicly embarrassed by its own statements, even as it attempted to cla ...

July 26, 2005