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At last, Election Day arrives and we will soon (we sincerely hope) know the results of the 2024 presidential election. I’ll start by putting my cards ...

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Sorry, President Carter . . . This Argument Falls Flat

For critics of the Southern Baptist Convention, former President Jimmy Carter is the gift that just keeps on giving. Over the last several days, yet another round of news reports has trumpeted the news that the former president has resigned his membe ...

July 23, 2009

Nature-Deficit Disorder — Have Our Children Forgotten How to Play Outdoors?

Author Richard Louv believes that America's children are now suffering from a syndrome he identifies as "nature-deficit disorder." In his new book, Last Child in the Woods, Louv suggests that the current generation of American children knows the Disc ...

July 20, 2009

The Bishop Discovers Heresy?

Several years ago, Methodist theologian Thomas C. Oden announced a most unusual quest: "I am earnestly looking for some church milieu wherein the sober issue of heresy can at least be examined," he declared.  He added, "I am looking, like Diogenes wi ...

July 17, 2009

“The Orthodox Are Finished”

Acting in open defiance to the worldwide Anglican Communion, the Episcopal Church has voted to end a de facto moratorium on the election and consecration of openly gay bishops. The vote -- overwhelming in both houses of the denomination's General Con ...

July 15, 2009

Two Rival Religions?

On November 3, 1921, J. Gresham Machen presented an address entitled, "Liberalism or Christianity?" In that famous address, later expanded into the book, Christianity & Liberalism, Machen argued that evangelical Christianity and its liberal rival ...

July 13, 2009

Evangelicalism’s Terminal Generation?

Is this evangelicalism's terminal generation?  Without doubt, we are facing an unprecedented set of challenges to evangelical identity.  The rise of a postmodern culture has produced an intellectual context in which the very concept of truth is held ...

July 8, 2009

A Christian Vision of Marriage and Family

"For the first time in its history, Western civilization is confronted with the need to define the meaning of the terms 'marriage' and 'family.'" So states author Andreas J. Kostenberger who, with the assistance of David W. Jones has written God, Mar ...

July 6, 2009

A Governor, a King, and the Tragedy of Adultery

The sad spectacle of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford continues to dominate the headlines as further revelations add one bizarre twist after another to the governor's tale of adultery, deceit, and the consequences of sin. With every passing day, ...

July 2, 2009

Richard Dawkins Jumps The Shark

News out of Great Britain indicates that Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most famous living atheist, is setting up a summer camp intended to help children and teenagers adopt atheism. As The Times [London] reports: "Give Richard Dawkins a child ...

June 30, 2009

The Assurance of Things Hoped For

THE ASSURANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR: A LIVING STEWARDSHIP FOR THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President Delivered June 24, 2009 at the Service Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of ...

June 29, 2009

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