Friday, Apr. 13, 2018

PART I Looking at the real legacy of Cecile Richards as influential media outlets celebrate her tenure leading Planned Parenthood

PART II Why it’s essential to understand the categorical distinction between humans and animals

PART III Glory bearers vs. image bearers: Showing proper concern for animals without worshipping them

Thursday, Apr. 12, 2018

PART I Appointment of first humanist as lead chaplain is yet another signpost along the way to secularization

PART II ‘Red Letter Revival’ attempts to plant new political theory on parts of the New Testament while being openly opposed to the rest of it

PART III As governments escalate predation on their most vulnerable citizens, gambling losses reach record highs

Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2018

PART I As Zuckerberg goes to Capitol Hill, Facebook faces fallout from misuse of user data

PART II Could government regulation of social media lead to a crackdown on religious speech?

PART III Will outrage over data leaks lead to a change in users’ behavior? So far, the answer is “no”

PART IV Facebook’s imperative above all other imperatives: Simply connect

PART V Washington DC vs. San Francisco: America’s new intellectual centers collide

Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2018

PART I A tempest not only in a teapot: Firing of Kevin Williamson exposes dominant worldview of secular culture

PART II Why threatening women who get an abortion with criminal action is not the way to limit abortion

PART III A controversy within a controversy: Who are the real abortion extremists?

PART IV Liberal columnist argues that only one side—yes, his side—has actual ideas and real influence

Monday, Apr. 9, 2018

PART I Tragedies in Canada and Syria expose differences between natural evil and moral evil

PART II Syria, chemical weapons, and Just War Theory: Why there is no way to underestimate man’s capacity for moral evil

PART III Secular world grapples with the reality of evil even as it lacks the basic categories for understanding its meaning

Friday, Apr. 6, 2018

PART I A tension that will not last: LGBT policies lead to a theological identity crisis at some Christian colleges

PART II Is there a theological dimension to Catholic colleges’ success on the basketball court?

PART III Evolution can’t explain babies’ unique ability to learn

PART IV A higher form of nonsense: Why grandparents are not the gift of evolution, but the gift of God’s perfect plan

Thursday, Apr. 5, 2018

PART I Did the Pope deny the existence of hell? Why much modern theology targets hell for disappearance.

PART II The crisis of Catholic doctrine under Pope Francis and the lessons for evangelicals.

PART III The collision of biblical Christianity and the spirit of the modern age over the doctrine of hell

PART IV Vatican attempts to bolster Pope’s conservative credibility by doctoring photo of letter from Benedict

Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2018

PART I 50 years ago today, history turned on a mere moment as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN

PART II Theology and the racial crisis, then and now

PART III Why it’s significant that the BBC religion editor recognizes there is more to Easter than chocolate

Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2018

PART I A love story that ends in suicide: New rituals around dying raise huge moral questions about the sanctity and dignity of human life

PART II How a reordering of the theological landscape has led to a redefinition of life and death

PART III Abuse of junk science leads California judge to order cancer warnings on coffee: What this reveals about Americans’ chemophobia

PART IV Stephen Reinhardt, the liberal lion of California, dies at 87, but there are many cubs following close behind

Monday, Apr. 2, 2018

PART I On Good Friday, NPR report distorts definition of Easter, revealing extent of secularization

PART II Although the cultural conception of Christ may fascinate, only the biblical conception of Christ saves

PART III Can the Bible be meaningful, even if one doesn’t believe it to be true?

PART IV Why abandoning a Scriptural understanding of ministry will inevitably lead to a very different rendering of God