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The Age of the Designer Baby Arrives

The logic of the genetics revolution leads inevitably to the concept of the designer baby.  New technologies bring new possibilities and hard choices, and the new genetic technologies bring genuinely frightening new possibilities.  Now, even designer ...

February 17, 2009

Christianity and Evolution — Seeing the Problem

This month marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, but the debates over science and religion have only intensified over the last two centuries.  In particular, evolutionary theory poses a direct challenge to the Christian faith -- if t ...

February 16, 2009

Pornography, Public Culture, and the New Administration

In contemporary America, pornography is both a public reality and big business.  Ambient pornography -- sexually explicit advertising, entertainment, and merchandising -- is all around us.  But pornography is also big business, producing sexually exp ...

February 13, 2009

Charles Darwin and the Modern Mind

Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.  Both men shaped history, but it is Charles Darwin who presents us with the most significant intellectual challenge. The Darwinist account of the cosmos and th ...

February 12, 2009

Can Faith-Based Programs Keep the Faith?

The Obama administration has announced its own authorization of what have been known as "faith-based" funding programs, and in so doing it dodged -- at least for now -- the most controversial question related to this funding.  Can faith-based organiz ...

February 11, 2009

Interview with Hugh Hewitt: The Future of Evangelicalism

I was pleased to talk to my Salem Radio colleague Hugh Hewitt on his radio program on February 2, 2009.  Hugh is a great conversationalist and interviewer, whose radio show is always truly interesting.  He is an attorney, law professor, commentator, ...

February 9, 2009

Facebook marked its fifth anniversary on February 5, setting a milestone for social networking as a cultural phenomenon.  Just five years ago Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched the site and service.  Just as Facebook celebrated its fifth ...

February 6, 2009

Memphis, Miami, Milan, and Mumbai

My convocation address delivered Tuesday at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was taken from Acts 1:1-8 and the Great Commission as found there.  The title of the address, "Memphis, Miami, Milan, and Mumbai: Ministry Somewhere, Anywhere, Ever ...

February 5, 2009

“The Ghost at the Table” — Are Kids a Threat to the Environment?

The contemporary clash of worldviews comes immediately into view with controversies over children, contraception, abortion, and now the environment.  A recent controversy in Great Britain makes this point all too clear. Jonathon Porritt, chairman of ...

February 4, 2009

OK, There Really is a Bible Belt

The Gallup organization has just released a major new research report that measures relative religiosity state by state, and the results are startling.  There really is a Bible belt, and some regions of the country are remarkably secular. The poll d ...

February 3, 2009