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Commonplaces: Teenagers, Reading, and Language

In times past, readers kept books in which they recorded favorite items from their reading. These "commonplace books" were sometimes later collected, offering a view into the mind and habits of the reader even as the thoughts of the original writers ...

January 14, 2014

The End of Morality Laws? Not Exactly

Does the legalization of same-sex marriage and polygamy mean the end of all morality laws? George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley thinks so, and he openly celebrates the death of all morals legislation—or, at least he says he does ...

January 13, 2014

“Downton Abbey” and the Modern Age—What Are We Really Watching?

Americans by the millions tuned in to watch the premier of Downton Abbey's fourth season, eager to enjoy the continuation of the saga of the Earl and Countess of Grantham and their household. According to press reports, 10.2 million Americans watched ...

January 10, 2014

Evolution and the Secular Worldview—The Fury of the Elites on Display

The Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project recently released data indicating that the issue of evolution still divides Americans. According to the research, about 60 percent of Americans indicate a belief in evolution, while just over ...

January 9, 2014

Is the Enemy of My Enemy My Friend?—An Old Question in a New Age

We are not living in a season of peace. Thinking Christians must surely be aware that a great moral and spiritual conflict is taking shape all around us, with multiple fronts of battle and issues of great importance at stake. The prophet Jeremiah rep ...

January 8, 2014

Some Thoughts on the Reading of Books

I cannot really remember when I did not love to read books. I do know that I was very eager to learn to read, and that I quickly found myself immersed in the world of books and literature. It may have been a seduction of sorts, and the Christian disc ...

January 2, 2014

“The Only Intelligible Explanation of the Incarnation”—A. T. Robertson on the Virgin Birth of Christ

The Christmas season comes each year with the expected flurry of media attention to the biblical accounts of Christ's conception and birth. The general thrust of the secular media is often incredulity toward the fact that so many people still believe ...

December 27, 2013

“And Them That Mourn”—Celebrating Christmas in the Face of Grief and Sorrow

NOTE: This essay was first published last year in light of the horrors of the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. This year, in view of the one-year anniversary of that unspeakable tragedy, and in acknowledgement of the fact that so many others have s ...

December 23, 2013

You Have Been Warned—The “Duck Dynasty” Controversy

An interview can get you into big trouble. Remember General Stanley McChrystal? He was the commander of all U.S. forces in Afghanistan until he gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in 2010 and criticized his Commander in Chief. Soon thereafter ...

December 19, 2013

TIME Chooses its “Person of the Year”—What Are We to Think?

TIME magazine has chosen its "Person of the Year" for 2013 and, to no real surprise, that person is Pope Francis I, the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. The papacy, stated TIME, "is mysterious and magical," transforming "a septuagenarian ...

December 18, 2013