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Is “Ever After” Just Too Long? Marriage and Modernity

The announcement that Al and Tipper Gore are separating after forty years of marriage has captured the attention of the American public to a rather surprising degree. After all, divorce is hardly uncommon these days, and the Gores are famously part o ...

June 8, 2010

Homosexuality and the Military — What’s Really at Stake?

Get ready. Big changes are coming to the United States military. Congress seems poised to pass legislation that would call for the elimination of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy put in place in 1993. With the support of the Obama admini ...

June 4, 2010

Summer Reading — Books Fit for the Season

Readers are a hopeful lot. Ask most serious readers what they intend to read over the next month, and you are likely to hear a considerable list. Books stack easily in more ways than one. The stack of books to be read beside the desk or reading chair ...

June 1, 2010

A Black Cat in a Dark Room — Are Theologians Really Saying Anything?

Terry Sanderson is president of Britain's National Secular Society, so it is hardly news that he has little time for the efforts of theologians. Writing in The Guardian [London], Sanderson dismisses theology as a form of knowledge. Theologians may ta ...

May 28, 2010

Has Man Created Life?

The cover story of the June 2010 edition of Scientific American presents "12 Events That Will Change Everything." Those events include human cloning, an asteroid colliding with the earth, a worldwide pandemic, and the creation of synthetic life. Each ...

May 25, 2010

Pornography — The Difference Being a Parent Makes

Political scientists and sociologists long ago came to the realization that one of the most significant indicators of political behavior is parenthood. Those who bear responsibility to raise children look at the world differently from those who do no ...

May 24, 2010

Do We Really Know Jesus? Adam Gopnik and the Gospels

This much is clear -- Jesus Christ just will not be ignored. Even the most secularized classes, those whom Friedrich Schleiermacher called the "cultured despisers of religion," cannot leave Jesus alone. Not even The New Yorker. The latest edition ...

May 19, 2010

“For the Sake of God” — Must We Surrender Sexual Morality?

The ordination of Mary Glasspool as a bishop of the Episcopal Church on Sunday drives yet another wedge into the already fracturing Anglican Communion -- and raises some of the most fundamental questions about the church and sexual morality. Bishop ...

May 18, 2010

Starting Something You Cannot Finish: The Eschatology of Christian Mission

Commencements come and commencements go. There will be thousands of graduation ceremonies around the world this season, and each will mark an important turning point in life. We have become so accustomed to these transitions and the need for marking ...

May 14, 2010

Real Enough? — Relics, Gopher Wood, and the Sufficiency of Scripture

For centuries, an inordinate and unhealthy attention has been directed to certain items claimed to be relics of Christ, Christian leaders, or illustrious Christians. The veneration of relics has been a major feature of Roman Catholic popular piety si ...

May 13, 2010

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