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As Summer Ends — (Late) Summer Reading List 2022

This year my Summer Reading List is definitely testing the boundaries of summer. But I claim as justification the fact that the days are still warm an...

August 8, 2022

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Christian Morality and Test Tube Babies, Part Two

The usual practice in IVF calls for the fertilization of numerous embryos, which are then frozen until needed for implantation in the womb. The high costs involved in these procedures, along with the risk of embryos failing to implant and thrive, mea ...

September 30, 2005

Christian Morality and Test Tube Babies, Part One

Questions of human reproduction inevitably define what it means to be human, and the moral issues which arise in connection with sex and reproduction are among the most divisive controversies of our time. The development of "test tube baby" technolog ...

September 29, 2005

The Blackmun Papers: One Man’s Shadow

When the constitutional framers established the Supreme Court as the third branch of America's government, they left the role of the Court largely undefined and unfinished. In recent years, the Court has taken on an entirely new importance, with a ma ...

September 28, 2005

Missions at Risk–A Failure of Nerve

America's evangelical Christians are facing a critical testing-time in the twenty-first century. Among the most important of the tests we now face is the future of missions, and our faithfulness to the Great Commission. At a time of unprecedented opp ...

September 27, 2005

Is the School Library Safe?

A roiling controversy in Arkansas may serve to awaken many parents to the reality of what is found in many public school libraries--explicitly sexual material. This controversy centers in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Laurie Taylor, a mother of two ...

September 26, 2005

The Real Face of Abortion–Choosing Death Rather Than Life

At the national level, the abortion debate is often discussed only in terms of laws, court decisions, and public controversies. In reality, every one of the million-plus abortions performed in America each year comes as a result of a private decision ...

September 23, 2005

The Age of Polymorphous Perversity, Part Four

Revolutions are fueled by ideas. The cultural upheaval represented by the age of polymorphous perversity has been grounded primarily in the ideas of three individuals: Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey, and Michel Foucault. To understand the force and spe ...

September 22, 2005

The Age of Polymorphous Perversity, Part Three

The transformation now taking place in Western culture has been fueled by a multi-pronged, comprehensive strategy aimed at undermining the traditional foundations of Western civilization. In psychology, medicine, politics, and law, cultural revolutio ...

September 21, 2005

The Age of Polymorphous Perversity, Part Two

For the last half century, the goal of America's cultural elites has been to disconnect Western society from Judeo-Christian morality. By subverting the prevailing norms of marriage, the family, and sexuality, they hoped to establish a new age and cu ...

September 20, 2005

The Age of Polymorphous Perversity, Part One

The sexual issues now confronting our nation--from the breakdown of the family to same-sex marriage--are really pieces of a much larger puzzle. In order to understand what is happening, one must look carefully at the entire picture, the entire trajec ...

September 19, 2005

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