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What is Morality Other Than Harm?

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 ...

September 27, 2012

‘Staying in His Lane’ — Joel Osteen’s Gospel of Affirmation Without Salvation

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 ...

September 21, 2012

The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife? When Sensationalism Masquerades as Scholarship

The whole world changed on Tuesday. At least, that is what many would have us to believe. Smithsonian magazine, published by the Smithsonian Institution, declares that the news released Tuesday was "apt to send jolts through the world of biblical sch ...

September 20, 2012

Christian Values Cannot Save Anyone

A recent letter to columnist Carolyn Hax of The Washington Post seemed straightforward enough. "I am a stay-at-home mother of four who has tried to raise my family under the same strong Christian values that I grew up with," the woman writes. "Theref ...

September 11, 2012

The Great American Worldview Test — The 2012 Election

American presidential elections are the world's most public display of the democratic process. The global media follow the American elections with a fervor that is easily understood -- what happens in an American presidential election matters all ove ...

September 6, 2012

Atheists in the Pulpit — The Sad Charade of the Clergy Project

"It is hard to think of any other profession which it is so near to impossible to leave." That is the judgment of Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most famous living atheist, as he welcomes unbelieving pastors to join the Clergy Project, a group ...

August 29, 2012

Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary

My article, "Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary," is now available at The Atlantic. I write about Helen Gurley Brown's influence in the Sexual Revolution and the revolutionary character of her agenda in her own times. Conservativ ...

August 24, 2012

Shall We Die as a Fool Dies?

For many years I have been captivated by King David's lament over Abner in 2 Samuel 3. It framed a fitting text for my 2012 Opening Convocation Address at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: "Shall We Die as a Fool Dies?" ...

August 14, 2012

Gore Vidal and the Sky God

The death of author and controversialist Gore Vidal last week brought an end to one of America's most gifted and flamboyantly offensive literary voices. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was born in 1925 on the campus of the United States Military Academy at ...

August 6, 2012

The Dark Night in Denver — Groping for Answers

The news hit the airwaves like a sudden onslaught, and the truth began to sink in. It has happened again. This time, 50 people shot while attending the midnight premier of the last in the Batman sequence, "The Dark Knight Rises." According to press r ...

July 20, 2012