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“The Lady’s Not for Turning” — Margaret Thatcher and the Leadership of Conviction

Margaret Thatcher, one of the most significant leaders of the 20th century, died yesterday at age 87. A model of convictional leadership, Margaret Thatcher became almost universally known as Britain's "Iron Lady." In May 1979, Margaret Thatcher moved ...

April 9, 2013

Leadership as Stewardship, Part One

Christians are rightly and necessarily concerned about leadership, but many Christians seem to aim no higher than secular standards and visions of leadership. We can learn a great deal from the secular world and its studies of leadership and its prac ...

April 8, 2013

Bracketing Morality — The Marginalization of Moral Argument in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

"Somewhere along the way, standing up for gay marriage went from nervy to trendy." This was the assessment offered by Frank Bruni, an influential openly-gay columnist for The New York Times. Bruni's column, published just as the Supreme Court was poi ...

April 1, 2013

Of First Importance: The Cross and Resurrection at the Center

The Christian faith is not a mere collection of doctrines — a bag of truths. Christianity is a comprehensive truth claim that encompasses every aspect of revealed doctrine, but is centered in the gospel of Jesus Christ. And, as the apostolic preachin ...

March 29, 2013

Marriage in the Dock—The Supreme Court Considers Same-Sex Marriage

The next two days are destined to stand among the most significant days in our nation's constitutional history, but the issues at stake reach far beyond the U.S. Constitution. Nothing less than marriage is in the dock, with the nation's highest court ...

March 26, 2013

A Warped Worldview: Another Moral Effect of Pornography

The moral effects of pornography are, by now, well attested. The scourge of pornography has brought ruin and harm into the lives of millions of our friends and neighbors, destroying marriages, distorting sexuality, and poisoning minds. Even so, the p ...

March 4, 2013

Adultery: When Law and Morality (used to) Agree

The Colorado legislature is considering the repeal of laws in the state that criminalize adultery or any act that would "promote sexual immorality." According to Lynn Bartels of The Denver Post, the process of repeal is now well underway, with the Ho ...

March 4, 2013

The Christian Leader in the Digital Age

The Digital Age is upon us. In the span of less than three decades, we have redefined the way humans communicate, entertain, inform, research, create, and connect – and what we know now is only a hint of what is to come. But the greatest concern of t ...

February 26, 2013

So What if Abortion Ends a Life? Rare Candor from the Culture of Death

Is an unborn baby "a life worth sacrificing?" The question is horrifying, but the argument was all too real. In a recent article, Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com conceded what the pro-life movement has contended all along -- that from the moment ...

February 1, 2013

Limping Between Two Opinions: The Moral Evacuation of the Boy Scouts of America

And Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you go on limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." 1 Kings 18:21 The announcement this week that the Boy Scouts of America ...

January 31, 2013