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...
In normal times, an institution like Harvard University thrives on publicity. Then again, these are not normal times. Harvard may be the most elite br...
Can a revolution come down to a pill? Over the past century, tidal waves of moral revolution have transformed society and reshaped our moral landscape...
Pope Francis, considered by Roman Catholic dogma to be Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Patriarch of the West, Bishop of Rome...
Following my usual practice, a couple of years ago I quickly ran into a local card shop to pick up a Mothers Day card for my wife. Easy enough, you may say. Not so. Men are just not well equipped for greeting card shopping. It's bad enough to pay an ...
Historian David Halberstam, one of the most popular and influential historians of modern America, reflected on his generation as his Harvard class of 1955 celebrated its fiftieth reunion. In "A Modest Generation," published in the May-June 2005 issue ...
When the Church of England began ordaining women as priests back in 1994, ecclesiastical laws were put into place that prevented the election of a woman as bishop. As one Anglican friend told me at the time, the prohibition against women bishops was ...
A leading Roman Catholic cardinal has issued a statement that has caused quite a stir in both scientific and theological circles. Christoph Schonborn, the cardinal archbishop of Vienna, published his controversial remarks in the pages of The New York ...
On this Lord's Day, direct your thoughts to the vision of God revealed in Walter C. Smith's great hymn, "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise." The hymn is a beautiful and majestic testimony to the omniscience and sovereignty of our all-knowing God: Im ...
An honest sense of moral discomfort marks Jim Holt's article published in today's edition of The New York Times Magazine. In "Euthanasia for Babies?", Holt considers the now-infamous Groningen Protocols developed by a team of Dutch doctors. These med ...
My family and I stood on a dark beach in South Florida tonight, watching a great storm build on the horizon. The eye of Hurricane Dennis is still several hundred miles away, but the crushing surf and the gusting winds announce the coming storm. Alrea ...
Yesterday's edition of The New York Times includes an interesting opinion column by Bob Herbert entitled, "Dad's Empty Chair." Herbert writes with passion and insight about the problem of fatherlessness and what the absence of a father means. He look ...
The bombings in London force us to look evil in the face once again. While some observers and commentators wonder aloud how human beings could do this to each other, Christians must affirm what we already know -- that great evil lurks in the heart of ...
"The Presbyterian Church (USA) is at a crossroads," declares a recently-released document from a group of concerned Presbyterians. The Presbyterian Lay Committee [PLC] is a venerable group of conservative Presbyterians who have been working for a Ref ...