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On Second Thought — Why Mother’s Day is a Bad Idea

Now that Mother's Day for 2009 is over, perhaps a bit of second-guessing is in order.  Americans have celebrated Mother's Day for over a century, and the observance has grown to become one of the nation's most popular annual events.  But is it good f ...

May 11, 2009

The Parable of the Unwilling Physician

Stephen Wallace had been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, and he wanted his doctor and the local hospital to help him commit suicide, but they would not.  Now, his children are speaking out, and this opens a new angle on the issue of assist ...

May 7, 2009

The Disappearance of God: Dangerous Beliefs in the New Spiritual Openness

I am very pleased that my latest book, The Disappearance of God:  Dangerous Beliefs in the New Spiritual Openness was released yesterday by Multnomah Books.  This new book takes a look at many of the most controversial issues facing the church today. ...

May 6, 2009

True Lips Wait? Sexual Abstinence, Romantic Longing, and Monogamous Lips

This will come as no news to most younger evangelicals, but The Tennessean [Nashville] has just taken notice of the fact that a sizable number of younger evangelical couples are saving their first kiss for their wedding ceremony. As the paper report ...

May 5, 2009

Piracy, Islam, and the Modern Age

It wasn't supposed to turn out this way.  The prophets of secularization were absolutely certain that religious belief would recede in the modern age.  As they saw the new age coming, they were confident that religious belief -- or at least any stron ...

May 1, 2009

Love in a Time of Swine Flu

"A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?" Proverbs 18:14 The history of humanity is the history of sickness, disease, and death.  When sin came, death came, and sickness remains the leading agent of death.  The horsem ...

April 29, 2009

Coming Out of the Closet — Atheist Style

Laurie Goodstein of The New York Times reports that American atheists are ready to go public with their message, reflecting an assertiveness resembling that of the so-called New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.  They are ready ...

April 28, 2009

Not Even Close? — Is America Becoming a Post-Christian Culture?

Newsweek magazine's cover story, "The Decline and Fall of Christian America" [April 13, 2009] continues to evoke controversy and conversation, and much of it is illuminating.  Now, Stephen Prothero of Boston University enters the fray with an incisiv ...

April 27, 2009

The Morning After Pill and the End of Parenthood

The secular left is a diverse amalgam of various interest groups and ideologies.  Of course, the same is true to some extent on the conservative end of the spectrum as well.  But on some issues the secular left is absolutely of one mind and voice, an ...

April 24, 2009

No Truth Without Love, No Love Without Truth

The church's engagement with the culture involves a host of issues, controversies, and decisions--but no issue defines our current cultural crisis as clearly as homosexuality. Some churches and denominations have capitulated to the demands of the hom ...

April 23, 2009

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