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New God or No God? The Peril of Making God Plausible

What kind of god would be plausible in this postmodern age?  Taken by itself, that question represents the great divide between those who believe in the God of the Bible and those who see the need to reinvent a deity more acceptable to the modern min ...

August 25, 2008

Greeting the Future of the Family — It’s in the Cards

The greeting card features two male torsos in tuxedos. The message is clear -- Hallmark is ready to join the celebration of same-sex marriage. According to the Associated Press, America's most prominent greeting card producer decided to roll out a ...

August 22, 2008

So . . . Why Did I Write This? The Delusion of Determinism

The subversion of moral responsibility is one of the most significant developments of recent decades. Though this subversion was originally philosophical, more recent efforts have been based in biology and psychology. Various theorists have argued ...

August 21, 2008

Backtrack to Saddleback — Secularists Not Pleased

Suffice it to say that I was not very hopeful about the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency held at the California megachurch last Saturday night. In the first place, I am not really comfortable with the idea of hosting such a politically charg ...

August 19, 2008

Remodeling Hell — Americans Redefine the Doctrine

Is belief in hell disappearing? "Absolutely," says Barnard College professor Alan Segal, author of Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion. Segal's remark is found within a news story released by Religion News Service. In "Be ...

August 18, 2008

“American Teen” — Not a Pretty Picture

Nanette Burstein's American Teen documentary has hit the big screen with a limited release in major American cities. The film purports to be a realistic view of American adolescence, as Burstein went to Warsaw, Indiana in order to follow five teenag ...

August 15, 2008

The Strange Persistence of Moral Sanity

The fall of yet another politician in a sex scandal has added a note of Schadenfreude to the political season. Coming so quickly after the fall of former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, the admission by former Senator John Edwards of an affair dur ...

August 13, 2008

“Rights Talk” in California — Confusing the Same-Sex Marriage Issue

The fact that The Los Angeles Times favors same-sex marriage is not a new revelation. To the contrary, the paper has positioned itself in support of same-sex marriage for some time. Furthermore, no informed reader will be surprised to find that the ...

August 11, 2008

“Atheism Remix” — Understanding and Answering the New Atheism

Atheism is not a new concept. Even the Bible speaks of the one who tells himself in his heart, “There is no God.” Atheism became an organized and publicly recognized worldview in the wake of the Enlightenment and has maintained a foothold in Western ...

August 8, 2008

A ‘Season of Gracious Restraint?’ Not Likely.

The 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops ended with something more like a whimper than a bang.  The once-a-decade meeting of bishops of the Anglican Communion was a matter of controversy long before it started.  In an unprecedented move, over ...

August 6, 2008

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