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A Conservative Resurgence Among American Baptists?

A report published in The Christian Century indicates that liberals fear the rise of a conservative movement within the American Baptist Churches in the USA [ABCUSA]. The issue that has ignited recent developments is homosexuality, specifically the g ...

June 22, 2005

Biology and Morality — What If There Is a Biological Basis for Homosexuality?

The Seattle Times weighed in on the homosexuality debate again on Sunday, with the paper's science reporter, Sandi Doughton, arguing that "a flock of sheep at Oregon State University may help answer a key question behind the controversy: Is homosexua ...

June 21, 2005

Another Glimpse of the Brave New World?

The Guardian [London] reports that researchers at Britain's Sheffield University are working on the possibility that artificial human sperm and eggs could be obtained from embryonic stem cells, ultimately allowing lesbian and homosexual male couples ...

June 20, 2005

Mario Cuomo’s Very Bad Idea

Former New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo proposes that President Bush should appoint a "Task Force on Life and the Law" in order to solve the ethical impasse over human embryonic stem cell research. Writing in today's edition of The New York Times, C ...

June 20, 2005

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the Authority of Scripture — We Must Choose Between Two Positions

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was one of the great preachers of the last century. A medical doctor by training, he was a powerful expositor, whose ministry at Westminster Chapel in London influenced thousands of his fellow preachers. A stalwart defender of ...

June 19, 2005

Thoughtful Reflections on Fatherhood

On Friday's edition of The Albert Mohler Program, Russ Moore and I discussed the state of fatherhood in our times. We seem to be living at a moment when fatherhood, having been sidelined, marginalized, and depreciated for at least three decades, is b ...

June 18, 2005

Looking at the Bottom of the Well — The U.C.C. Debates the Lordship of Christ

The United Church of Christ is set to debate the Lordship of Christ as it meets for its General Synod starting July 1. The issue arose when a group of UCC members proposed a "prudential resolution" intended to put the denomination on the record in su ...

June 18, 2005

“Sex and the Supremacy of Christ” is Now Available

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor has now been released by Crossway Books. The book includes all the presentations made at the conference of the same title, held last year in Minneapolis. The book includes my cha ...

June 17, 2005

Psychiatry, Psychology, and Christianity — What’s Going On?

The Washington Post featured a very interesting opinion column in its Sunday Outlook section this week. Henry Brinton, pastor of Virginia's Fairfax Presbyterian Church [Presbyterian Church (USA)] presented a case for the conjoining of "faith" and "sc ...

June 17, 2005

Journalist Befuddled by Evidence of Christian Belief

Roger Rosenblatt, a gifted wordsmith and reporter with the NewsHour program on PBS, recently filed an essay in which he expressed honest surprise at the levels of Christian belief he has observed around the country. He begins: "As a secular Jew, a di ...

June 16, 2005