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Screen Test: The Danger of Digital Fixation

When it comes to the dangers of the digital age, most parents worry about what is on the screen of the computer. Recent research indicates that the screen itself just might be a very real danger. Writing in The New York Times, physician Perri Klass ...

May 18, 2011

The Terrorist and His Porn Stash

The news that a huge stash of digital pornography had been discovered on the computers taken from Osama bin Laden's compound was big news, but it should not have been a big surprise. As Scott Shane of The New York Times reports, the discovery "could ...

May 16, 2011

The End is Near? The False Teaching of Harold Camping

Harold Camping is now warning the world that the Day of Judgment will begin at about 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, 2011. The 89-year-old founder of Family Radio has made such pronouncements before, most recently in 1994. He now says that he simply m ...

May 16, 2011

Following Jesus While Rejecting the Bible? Yet Another Tragedy in Mainline Protestantism

Yet another denomination has voted to ordain openly homosexual candidates to its ministry. Yesterday, the Presbyterian Church (USA) presbytery of the Twin Cities in Minnesota voted to approve a change to the church's constitution that will allow the ...

May 11, 2011

Killing Off Marriage? Dr. Ablow Reports — You Decide

Dr. Keith Ablow thinks that marriage is "a source of real suffering for the vast majority of married people." As a matter of fact, that is only one of the accusations Ablow hurls against marriage before eventually calling for its demise. Marriage, he ...

May 9, 2011

When the Lights Go Out: The Death of a Denomination

Adrian Hamilton is concerned that the Church of England "will not survive my children's lifetime and quite possibly not even my own." Writing in The Independent [London], Hamilton writes of a Church of England that remains established as the national ...

May 4, 2011

The Trial that Still Must Come — The Death of Osama bin Laden and the Limits of Human Justice

Osama bin Laden is dead. President Obama spoke with clarity and resolution when he addressed the American people last night: "Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed ...

May 2, 2011

Nero in Beijing — The Communist Party Declares War on Christians

The news out of China grows worse as reports of the arrest, detention, harassment, and beatings of Christians come from across China. The most publicized case thus far is the repeated oppression against a Beijing congregation that has led to numerous ...

April 28, 2011

A Warning of Intimidations to Come

The defense of the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] got a little more complicated yesterday as the law firm that the House of Representatives had hired to defend the law withdrew from the case. As The New York Times stated bluntly, the firm dropped the ...

April 26, 2011

“God’s True Vision of the Way Things Ought to Be?” — It’s Not Really About Same-Sex Marriage

The Douglas Boulevard Christian Church in Louisville has voted to stop performing legal marriages in light of Kentucky's constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriages. As Peter Smith of The Courier-Journal [Louisville] reported: Douglass B ...

April 25, 2011