Vice President Kamala Harris went to Minnesota last week in order to make history, the White House claimed. She made history, to be sure. She became t...
We did see this coming. With relentless energy, the revolutionaries have bulldozed through the culture, breaking down one moral barrier after another—...
In France, abortion is now a constitutional right. On Monday, France became the first nation to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution. Both cha...
The annual State of the Union address combines the grandeur of our constitutional democracy and a bit of political grandstanding. That is a longstandi...
Dear readers, your letters and e-mails mean a great deal to us. That's why we are especially distressed that our e-mail files (filled with thousands of messages) have disappeared into the ether of empty nothingness. They have simply vanished. The rea ...
Honestly, I'm not making this up. I somehow overlooked the May 14 edition of The Boston Globe, and therefore missed the report that Harvard University's humanist chaplain is set to retire this summer. Seriously folks, Harvard has an endowed humanist ...
My commentary for today, The Culture of Death -- Looking Back at Terri Schiavo, considers an important article by Professor Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins University. His argument is compelling and ominous. His article, Annihilating Terri Schiavo, publ ...
David C. Steinmetz serves as Amon Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity at the Divinity School of Duke University. He is a respected church historian who has contributed much to our knowledge of the Reformation. In a recent opinion co ...
The Associated Press reported on Sunday that the Navajo Nation's tribal government mustered sufficient votes to override a veto of the "Dine Marriage Act of 2005." The Navajo council voted 62-14 (with 12 abstaining) to override Navajo President Joe S ...
Pastor Ken Hutcherson of the Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington confronted the Microsoft corporation with its practice of pushing the homosexual agenda in state politics. At stake was proposed anti-discrimination legislation promoted by gay ...
Controversy over the so-called 'New Perspective' on Paul has grown in recent years, as revisionist understandings of Paul and his understanding of the Gospel have gained ground among some evangelicals. In my judgment, the New Perspective represents a ...
Yesterday marked the fortieth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case, Griswold v. Connecticut, striking down laws prohibiting the sale or use of contraceptives. The Griswold decision set the stage for the court's disastrous 1973 ...
My commentary for today,"Deliberate Childlessness: Moral Rebellion With a New Face," has incited a good bit of controversy. The essay was originally published last year, but when the Web site BeliefNet.com reprinted the piece recently, my mail box be ...
Dylan Evans and Salman Rushdie offer competing concepts of modern atheism in a recent pair of dueling newspaper articles. Evans was first to strike, writing in The Guardian [London] that atheists should strike a softer pose, acknowledging, in essence ...