The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday today and the nation marks a milestone. Though a few retired presidents have reached a 90t...
Abortion at the center: Is Kamala Harris running for president of the United States or of Planned Parenthood? Vice President Kamala Harris told her...
“Never give in”: What in the world are they saying about Winston Churchill? My intense interest in Winston Churchill began when I was a 10-year-old...
TODAY: Hurricane Sandy, a deadly shark attack, and controversy over a U.S. Senate candidate's comments on rape and abortion. I discuss all these in today's edition of The Briefing: A Daily Analysis of News and Events from a Christian Worldview. Chur ...
The controversy over comments made by U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock reveals the undeniable ugliness of American politics. At the same time, the media firestorm underscores the importance of getting the pro-life position right -- and expressi ...
TODAY: Also on the ballot in November, the legalization of marijuana (Oregon, Washington, Colorado) and the expansion of gambling (Maryland). The precedent is set for a radical expansion of presidential power after the election. The new face of infid ...
In today's edition of The Briefing I talk about the issue of abortion in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, with a particular reference to a controversy surrounding comments made by Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Rep. Ryan affirmed ...
Adam Gopnik is a gifted essayist and writer whose contributions, often published in The New Yorker, are almost always thoughtful and interesting. Nevertheless, one of his most recent writings is deeply disturbing, and at the deepest level. Reflectin ...
Meet the unaffiliated. An increasing number of Americans identify with no church, denomination, or religious tradition, and this development represents a truly significant shift in the nation's pattern of belief. America's religious landscape is cha ...
More than twenty years ago, theologian J. I. Packer recounted what he called a “Thirty Years’ War” over the inerrancy of the Bible. He traced his involvement in this war in its American context back to a conference held in Wenham, Massachusetts in 19 ...
On November 3, 1921, J. Gresham Machen presented an address entitled, “Liberalism or Christianity?” In that famous address, later expanded into the book, Christianity and Liberalism, Machen argued that evangelical Christianity and its liberal riva ...
Is morality limited to questions of direct harm? That question is not just a matter of moral theory -- it also informs our most urgent political and cultural debates. Back in May, columnist Eric Zorn of The Chicago Tribune asserted: "To me, immoral c ...
Joel Osteen was back on CNN this week, appearing Thursday morning on "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien." Osteen's new book, I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life, recently hit the nation's bookstores. Osteen's positive thinking theology ...