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The empire strikes back

The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...

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Martyrs in a Modern World

Christians -- especially those enjoying the safety of the West -- often think of martyrdom as a part of the distant Christian past. But a recent barrage of headlines dispels that notion in a hurry. Over the past several weeks, Christians in Iraq suff ...

January 4, 2011

How Not to Fight Atheism

There is nothing so short-sighted and unhelpful as Christian insecurity -- and this kind of insecurity recently led to predictable results in Fort Worth, Texas. In early December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason -- a group dedicated to rais ...

January 3, 2011

Where Did I Come From? – It’s No Longer a Simple Question

At some point, anticipated and even feared by some parents, every child asks the inevitable question: "Where did I come from?" That question is endemic to humanity. The question of our own biological origins is eventually inescapable. Our existence r ...

January 3, 2011

Must We Believe the Virgin Birth?

In one of his columns for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof once pointed to belief in the Virgin Birth as evidence that conservative Christians are “less intellectual.” Are we saddled with an untenable doctrine? Is belief in the Virgin Birth re ...

December 22, 2010

The Global Scandal of “The Global Baby”

The Wall Street Journal blows the cover off the international trade in babies and reproductive technologies this week, as reporters Tamara Audi and Arlene Chang tell of the emergence of a market that assembles the "global baby." Just consider the sh ...

December 16, 2010

So, Why Is Incest Wrong?

There are certain questions now pressed upon us that previous generations would never believe could be asked. One of these is thrust upon us by events in New York City, where a well-known Ivy League professor has been arrested for the crime of incest ...

December 15, 2010

The Christian Worldview as Master Narrative: Creation

One of the hallmarks of the postmodern age is, as one of its main theorists has explained, “incredulity toward metanarratives.” This reflects the postmodern suspicion of any master explanation of world reality and human experience. But, from beginnin ...

December 15, 2010

The Sins of the Father

The suicide of Mark Madoff, the 46-year-old elder son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, has all the trappings of a Greek tragedy. Madoff hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father's arrest for wha ...

December 14, 2010

For the Mouth of the Lord Hath Spoken It

Though his work is almost universally known within the English-speaking world, Charles Jennens is virtually unknown. He was a brilliant librettist -- a writer of texts to be put to music by others. Born in the year 1700, Jennens inherited his father' ...

December 10, 2010

Coed Quarters & Free Birth Control–The New Campus Culture?

The campus of George Washington University must be an interesting place to be -- and it looks like it may quickly become a lot more interesting. Consider these opening words from a report in The Washington Post: "The long-eroding boundaries that once ...

December 9, 2010

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