By all accounts Tyler Clementi was an 18-year-old young man who was excited to be a freshman in college, gifted as a violinist, and looking forward to the future. All that changed last week when he walked out onto the massive George Washington Bridge ...
The scandals surrounding Atlanta's Bishop Eddie Long now center on allegations of sexual immorality put forth by four young men who had been teenagers under his ministry. But previous attention had been directed at the financial elements of his minis ...
Some questions we ask today would simply baffle our ancestors. When Christians ask whether believers should practice yoga, they are asking a question that betrays the strangeness of our current cultural moment -- a time in which yoga seems almost mai ...
The human future is an urban future. In one of the greatest social shifts of all human history, over half of all living humans now inhabit cities. Driven by population shifts, immigration, and human reproduction, massive new cities are springing up a ...
The American literary critic Frederick Crews once spoke of defenders of evolutionary theory who attempt to make Darwinism appear more congenial to the Christian faith than it truly is. These defenders, Crews wrote, present a vision of Darwin and Darw ...
Statistics indicate that a growing number of Americans are marrying someone from outside their own religious commitments. Is this a trend we should encourage? Not if you are committed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The statistical trend is clear eno ...
Dr. Jerry Campbell, President of the Claremont School of Theology, recently announced that his United Methodist school will begin including Jewish and Muslim curriculum and students in order to prepare the next generation of ministers for the realiti ...
Franklin Graham's recent comments calling Islam a false religion caused quite a controversy in the public sphere. As the West becomes increasingly secular, it is generally assumed that holding to the exclusive truths of the gospel over and against a ...
This much is clear -- Jesus Christ just will not be ignored. Even the most secularized classes, those whom Friedrich Schleiermacher called the "cultured despisers of religion," cannot leave Jesus alone. Not even The New Yorker. The latest edition ...
Commencements come and commencements go. There will be thousands of graduation ceremonies around the world this season, and each will mark an important turning point in life. We have become so accustomed to these transitions and the need for marking ...