The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday today and the nation marks a milestone. Though a few retired presidents have reached a 90t...
Abortion at the center: Is Kamala Harris running for president of the United States or of Planned Parenthood? Vice President Kamala Harris told her...
“Never give in”: What in the world are they saying about Winston Churchill? My intense interest in Winston Churchill began when I was a 10-year-old...
Journalist Franz-Olivier Giesbert spent untold hours with the late French President Francois Mitterand, and many of these hours were devoted to discussions about death. After serving two seven-year terms as the French President, Mitterand revealed t ...
Looking at data from a massive survey taken in 1990, Barry Kosmin argued that many Americans saw religious beliefs as "a personal hobby." Now, with fresh data in hand, he asserts that contemporary Americans increasingly see religious faith as "more ...
I was interviewed by Interfaith Voices about the "Sex and the Seminary" report released a few months ago. Interfaith Voices is heard on public radio stations nationwide, and the podcast or audio format of this edition of the program is available her ...
President Barack Obama today signed an executive order that reverses the Bush administration's restrictions on federal funding for research that involves the destruction of human embryos. In a White House ceremony, President Obama said that American ...
Boundless is a magnificent e-magazine and resource from Focus on the Family. I recently talked to friends at Boundless when I was in Colorado Springs, and I recorded an interview with them that is available here. As always, it was great to talk wit ...
Bioethicists Eric Cohen and Leon R. Kass offer warning that we are now witnessing the development of a "mass geriatric society" which will present this country with massive economic, social, medical, political, and ethical challenges. Recognizing th ...
"Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails." This is the prayer of the Psalmist in Psalm 71:9. Like so many before and after him, the Psalmist fears being forsaken when he is old. In our own times, this conce ...
The announcement that Dr. James C. Dobson has stepped down from his role as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Focus on the Family has received considerable media attention -- as should be expected. After all, transitions of this magnitude are ne ...
I recently discovered that I share a birth year with Barbara Millicent Roberts. We will both turn fifty this year, but her birthday comes first. From what I have seen of her in recent media appearances, she isn't showing many signs of age. Then ag ...
Is the Obama White House vetting prayers? Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News and World Report reports that this represents a "new tradition" established by the administration of President Barack Obama. As Gilgoff revealed, "In a departure from previous presi ...