President Biden’s unpardonable pardon

President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...

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Where Does the Story of Christmas Begin?

As the celebration of Christmas fast approaches, our attention quickly goes to the familiar words of the infancy narratives found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.  This is a healthy reflex.  After all, the Gospel of Jesus Christ rests upon the his ...

December 21, 2009

NewsNote: Whatever Happened to Shame?

Ellen Goodman is morally troubled. The liberal columnist for The Boston Globe surveys the moral landscape and laments "there's no shame in the game." Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, whose observations are predictably liberal and femin ...

December 18, 2009

NewsNote: The Death of Oral Roberts

The death of Oral Roberts marks a significant milestone in the history of American Christianity. His life, spanning from 1918 to 2009, represents 91 years and almost a century of American religious history. Granville Oral Roberts was born into the h ...

December 16, 2009

The Travail of Tiger Woods — Lessons Not to Be Missed

The travail of Tiger Woods entered a new chapter over the weekend as Accenture, a global consulting firm, severed all ties with the world's most famous golfer. In doing so, Accenture became the first of Woods's major sponsors to end its relationship ...

December 14, 2009

Starting Something You Cannot Finish: Christian Ministry From Generation to Generation

A commencement ceremony seems absolutely right and profoundly necessary. The hard work of education cries out for ceremonial recognition. The commencement traditions of higher education have developed by formality and ritual in order that this busine ...

December 11, 2009

NewsNote: An Amazing Article on Abortion in New York Magazine

Week by week, New York magazine offers insight into the culture and consciousness of the nation's trendy population in Manhattan. This magazine, combined with The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker, provides constant ins ...

December 8, 2009

NewsNote: When “Gracious Restraint” Fails — The Real Anglican Tragedy

The election of a second openly-homosexual bishop in the Episcopal Church hardly came as a surprise. Given the actions of the church in its General Convention this past summer, the question was clearly not if there would be more openly-gay bishops, b ...

December 7, 2009

What Do You Really Believe About Human Dignity, Dr. Collins?

The defense of human dignity is the responsibility of all human beings, but certain individuals bear a special responsibility due to position or influence. This is certainly the case with Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of He ...

December 4, 2009

On Faith: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? — The Swiss Ban Minarets

Voting by an unexpectedly large margin, the Swiss overwhelmingly adopted a national ban on the construction of minarets. Sunday's vote represents a clear victory for the Swiss right and serves notice that the citizens of Switzerland are concerned abo ...

December 1, 2009

“They Did Not Honor Him as God, or Give Thanks”

Thanksgiving is a deeply theological act, rightly understood. As a matter of fact, thankfulness is a theology in microcosm -- a key to understanding what we really believe about God, ourselves, and the world we experience. A haunting question is thi ...

November 25, 2009