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The empire strikes back: An attack on a prominent classical Christian school shows the movement has the liberal establishment running scared A majo...

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So Much for Possibility Thinking

Bad news must be especially hard to bear when you build your world on positive thinking, but the news out of Garden Grove this past Sunday was not happy.  Robert H. Schuller, founder of the Crystal Cathedral and the "Hour of Power" television ministr ...

October 28, 2008

What’s Really at Stake in the Gay Marriage Debate? Part Four

Writing more than twenty years ago, Thomas Sowell described the basic worldview clash we observe today as a struggle between "constrained" and "unconstrained" visions of humanity.  The fundamental distinction between these two visions is moral, but t ...

October 27, 2008

What’s Really at Stake in the Gay Marriage Debate? Part Three

"We're talking about really refraining from using things like, husband-wife, boyfriend-girlfriend, those kind of things, and just say 'partner,'" explains Robin Sinks.  She is the health education specialist for the Long Beach Unified School District ...

October 24, 2008

Rights Talk Right to Death — Euthanasia and “Religious Primitivism”

Several years ago, Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon offered the persuasive argument that America has embraced what she calls "rights talk."  The assertion of rights is now the standard way to effect social change or, in the case of individuals, ...

October 23, 2008

An Unbelievable Challenge — A Look at Atheist Public Relations

Given how crazy this sounds, I would not have believed the report except for the fact that it was published by one of the world's most venerable newspapers, The Times [London].  It seems that Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most famous living at ...

October 21, 2008

So, What’s Really at Stake in the Gay Marriage Debate? Part Two

Same-sex marriage is, for now, legal in three of fifty states in the United States.  Beyond our borders, it is legal in the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, South Africa, Canada and Norway.  This represents a very small percentage of the world's populati ...

October 20, 2008

So, What’s Really at Stake in the Gay Marriage Debate? Part One

Human society is a complex reality, but certain constants have framed that reality for human beings.  One of those constants has been the institution of marriage.  The respected status of the heterosexual pairing, set apart for exclusive rights and r ...

October 17, 2008

The Abortion Question and the Future

The shadow of abortion looms large over the American conscience.  Over thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the abortion controversy has not gone away.  If the U.S. Supreme Court majority really thought that their decision to create a new "right" to abort ...

October 15, 2008

When Plants Have Rights . . . An Idea Gone to Seed

Worldviews are constantly in motion.  New issues arise and new questions present themselves.  In one sense, worldviews operate as idea factories, as primary ideas work themselves out into related ideas.  The basic framework of convictions that lies a ...

October 10, 2008

Spare the Rod? America’s Parents Just Won’t Get With the Science

Alan E. Kazdin is a frustrated man, and it's America's parents who are frustrating him.  These parents are, of all things, prone to use an occasional spanking in disciplining their children.  Dr. Kazdin's great frustration is that these parents insis ...

October 9, 2008

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