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Fighting Words about the Bible?

The Monday "On Religion" feature in USA Today is consistently interesting, even if often exasperating.  That is what should be expected of an opinion column -- strong opinions in both the column and the reaction it prompts.  Well, get ready to form y ...

April 13, 2009

The Resurrection of Christ and the Reality of the Gospel

The pattern of the Christian year is an exercise of the Church's discipline. The annual celebrations of Christmas and Resurrection Day force the Church to ponder again the truths of Christ's incarnation and resurrection. Christians understand that e ...

April 12, 2009

TIME — Is Same-Sex Marriage Inevitable?

The past two weeks have brought new cogency to a question many have been asking for some time -- Is the legalization of same-sex marriage now inevitable? The question may not make sense to those who focus only on the fact that, as of last November, ...

April 10, 2009

The Challenge of Islam — A Christian Perspective

President Barack Obama has put the issue of Islam front and center on the international stage.  His visit to Turkey, and his very public statements to the Muslim world, have raised a host of questions at home and abroad. In his speech to the Turkish ...

April 8, 2009

Newsweek — The End of Christian America

"To the surprise of liberals who fear the advent of an evangelical theocracy and to the dismay of religious conservatives who long to see their faith more fully expressed in public life, Christians are now making up a declining percentage of the Amer ...

April 6, 2009

Health Alert — Read to Save Your Life

We are constantly bombarded with health messages these days, with many offering confusing, complicated, or contradictory advice.  There are so many messages with so many misunderstandings that, in the end, they have become like car alarms going off i ...

April 3, 2009

Marvelous Suicide and Beneficial Abortion — Worldviews Matter

The current "Great Recession" brings a host of moral questions as we experience a massive economic earthquake.  Indeed, some see the economic crisis as an opportunity to push the agenda of the Culture of Death.  The logic is clear -- we would be bett ...

April 2, 2009

Assisted Suicide and the “Balance of Harm”

Britain, like many other countries, is debating assisted suicide and euthanasia.  In Britain, the more common term is "assisted dying," which appears to reflect a strategy to avoid using "suicide" to describe ending one's own life.  Then again, the d ...

April 1, 2009

Does Your Pastor Believe in God?

A news report from the Netherlands points to a form of theological insanity that is spreading far beyond the Dutch.  Ecumenical News International reports that church authorities in the Netherlands have decided not to take action against a Dutch past ...

March 31, 2009

The Eclipse of Christian Memory

Even as Californians await the decision of their state Supreme Court on the same-sex marriage issue, momentum toward the legalization of gay marriage has now shifted to New England, where several states are poised to approve some version of homosexua ...

March 27, 2009