Heresy presented as mercy: A full doctrinal revolt, driven by LGBTQ issues, comes advertised as a change of mind, but the book is explosive in ways the authors didn’t intend

In case you haven’t caught on, here’s how the world now works. If you want major attention and applause from the cultural left and its influencers, of...

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John Leo on the Dangers of Doublespeak

Columnist John Leo of US News and World Report considers contemporary abuses of language in Double Trouble Speak, published in the current edition of the magazine. "It's a living language," Leo remindes us, "but sometimes it's dead on arrival when pe ...

June 28, 2005

Why Communism Didn’t Work

The Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski offered a profound refutation of Marxism/Communism. Essayist and cultural critic Roger Kimball considers Kolakowski's legeacy in Leszek Kolakowski and the Anatomy of Totalitarianism, published in the June 2005 ...

June 28, 2005

The Ten Commandments Decisions

Today's commentary, Two Decisions, Two Worldviews--The Ten Commandments Decisions, considers the meaning and impact of the two decisions handed down yesterday. The decisions aside, this is a good opportunity for Christians to remember the importance ...

June 28, 2005

An Eminent Threat to Churches?

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that local governments could use economic development as a cause for taking property, most Americans seemed to think that the case had little to do with a threat to their own property--or the property of th ...

June 27, 2005

Materialism Without Excuses — The Worldview Files

An article published earlier this month at TechCentralStation represents something of a new-found boldness among those committed to evolutionary naturalism. Robert McHenry, former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica, takes the gloves off i ...

June 27, 2005

They’re After The Minds of Our Children

As if parents didn't have enough to worry about, a new children's book is out, prompting controversy in several school districts and libraries. The book, written by Linda De Haan and illustrated by Stern Nijland, is entitled King & King, and it g ...

June 27, 2005

Anglican Developments — U.S. and Canadian Churches Excluded

The Anglican Consultative Council voted last week to exclude the Episcopal Church, USA  and the Anglican Church of Canada from its deliberations for three years. The ground of the expulsion was the fact that the two North American churches had taken ...

June 27, 2005

Why Sing the Hymns?

Consider this statement on the disappearance of hymns from worship from Paul S. Jones: The postmodern church, like the rest of Western culture, is self-obsessed and seems uninterested in the rich heritage of church music imparted to us from the saint ...

June 26, 2005

Joel Osteen Issues Apology

Joel Osteen has issued an apology for his disappointing June 20 appearance on CNN's Larry King Live program. The apology is published on the Joel Osteen Ministries Web site. "It was never my desire or intention to leave any doubt as to what I believe ...

June 25, 2005

The Limits of Encouragement

We would all like to be encouraging -- and encouragement is one of the hallmarks of Christian ministry. After all, Barnabas was given his name as "Son of Encouragement" precisely in recognition of this invaluable ministry (Acts 4:36). Nevertheless, e ...

June 24, 2005