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The life and legacy of Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th President of the United States, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Ga., at age ...

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True Lips Wait? Sexual Abstinence, Romantic Longing, and Monogamous Lips

This will come as no news to most younger evangelicals, but The Tennessean [Nashville] has just taken notice of the fact that a sizable number of younger evangelical couples are saving their first kiss for their wedding ceremony. As the paper report ...

May 5, 2009

Piracy, Islam, and the Modern Age

It wasn't supposed to turn out this way.  The prophets of secularization were absolutely certain that religious belief would recede in the modern age.  As they saw the new age coming, they were confident that religious belief -- or at least any stron ...

May 1, 2009

Love in a Time of Swine Flu

"A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?" Proverbs 18:14 The history of humanity is the history of sickness, disease, and death.  When sin came, death came, and sickness remains the leading agent of death.  The horsem ...

April 29, 2009

Coming Out of the Closet — Atheist Style

Laurie Goodstein of The New York Times reports that American atheists are ready to go public with their message, reflecting an assertiveness resembling that of the so-called New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.  They are ready ...

April 28, 2009

Not Even Close? — Is America Becoming a Post-Christian Culture?

Newsweek magazine's cover story, "The Decline and Fall of Christian America" [April 13, 2009] continues to evoke controversy and conversation, and much of it is illuminating.  Now, Stephen Prothero of Boston University enters the fray with an incisiv ...

April 27, 2009

The Morning After Pill and the End of Parenthood

The secular left is a diverse amalgam of various interest groups and ideologies.  Of course, the same is true to some extent on the conservative end of the spectrum as well.  But on some issues the secular left is absolutely of one mind and voice, an ...

April 24, 2009

No Truth Without Love, No Love Without Truth

The church's engagement with the culture involves a host of issues, controversies, and decisions--but no issue defines our current cultural crisis as clearly as homosexuality. Some churches and denominations have capitulated to the demands of the hom ...

April 23, 2009

Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Luck — The Abandoned Embryo

The National Institutes of Health [NIH] released the draft of its "Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research" on April 17, thus revealing the specific policy proposals that will expand federal funding for stem cell research using human embryos. The pr ...

April 20, 2009

Should the United Nations Protect Religions from Defamation?

Suddenly, I find myself in an awkward and uncomfortable position.  I find that I must agree with Peter Singer on an issue of importance.  This requires some soul-searching. Peter Singer teaches bioethics at Princeton University and is one of the mos ...

April 17, 2009

When Abortion Collides with Totalitarianism

The vast nation of China remains under the control of one of the few surviving Communist regimes on the planet.  Over the last two decades, that regime has redefined Communist economic theory, allowing private capital and a consumer market to emerge ...

April 16, 2009