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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 ...

December 4, 2024

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A Birthday Party You Might Miss

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 ...

March 2, 2009

This Prayer Approved by the White House?

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 ...

February 27, 2009

The scourge of pornography is now so pervasive that it begins to define the culture at large.  America is fast transforming itself from a society that allows and markets pornography into a culture that is pornographic.  Boundary after boundary is bei ...

February 26, 2009

Focus on the Family Interview Today — Atheism Remix

I was honored to talk with Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family about my recent book, Atheism Remix.  The interview is broadcast today on the "Focus on the Family" radio program, which Dr. Dobson hosts. It was a good conversation about h ...

February 23, 2009

The Divine Egotist — Is God Arrogant, Selfish, or Megalomaniacal?

Is the God of the Bible the supreme egotist?  That question arises when human beings contemplate the meaning of the truth that God does everything for the sake of his own glory.  Is God then a megalomaniac? Human beings are trapped in a human frame ...

February 20, 2009

The Palin Parable — Bristol Says Abstinence “Not Realistic At All”

Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, made headlines last summer when it was revealed that she was about to become an unwed mother.  On December 27, she gave birth to a baby boy named Tripp.  Now, Bristol Palin is ba ...

February 19, 2009

The Age of the Designer Baby Arrives

The logic of the genetics revolution leads inevitably to the concept of the designer baby.  New technologies bring new possibilities and hard choices, and the new genetic technologies bring genuinely frightening new possibilities.  Now, even designer ...

February 17, 2009

Christianity and Evolution — Seeing the Problem

This month marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, but the debates over science and religion have only intensified over the last two centuries.  In particular, evolutionary theory poses a direct challenge to the Christian faith -- if t ...

February 16, 2009

Pornography, Public Culture, and the New Administration

In contemporary America, pornography is both a public reality and big business.  Ambient pornography -- sexually explicit advertising, entertainment, and merchandising -- is all around us.  But pornography is also big business, producing sexually exp ...

February 13, 2009

Charles Darwin and the Modern Mind

Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.  Both men shaped history, but it is Charles Darwin who presents us with the most significant intellectual challenge. The Darwinist account of the cosmos and th ...

February 12, 2009

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