A Discussion of Matthew Bates’s Beyond the Salvation Wars: Why Both Protestants and Catholics Must Reimagine How We Are Saved With: Dr. Tom Schreiner...
TIME magazine has chosen its "Person of the Year" for 2013 and, to no real surprise, that person is Pope Francis I, the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. The papacy, stated TIME, "is mysterious and magical," transforming "a septuagenarian ...
1) Pope Francis: TIME Person of the Year Pope Francis, The People’s Pope, TIME (Howard Chua-Eoan and Elizabeth Dias) 2) Despite the "Francis Effect," how much has really changed? The Catholics Still in Exile, New York Times (Frank Bruni) ...
As most Americans were thinking thoughts of Christmas cheer, a federal judge in Utah dropped a bomb on the institution of marriage, striking down the most crucial sections of the Utah statute outlawing polygamy. Last Friday, Judge Clark Waddoups of t ...
1) Horror in Arapahoe: How do we understand the human heart? Arapahoe High School shooting: Gunman intended to harm many at school, Denver Post (Kirk Mitchell, Jeremy Meyer and Sadie Gurman) Colorado shooting victim described as sweet, smart, a ...
1) Sandy Hook one year later - The answer to "Why?" may not be answered in this life Newtown Far From a Catalyst for Gun Control, Boston Globe (Brian MacQuarrie) Newtown: Striving for 'New Normal' a Year Later, USA Today (Gary Stoller) The S ...
1) The ascendance of hard-line liberal left against moderate Democrats With Filibuster Threat Gone, Senate Confirms Two Presidential Nominees, New York Times (Jeremy W. Peters) Coalition of Liberals Strikes Back at Criticism From Centrist Democ ...
The collapse of the barrier between popular culture and decadence has released a toxic mudslide of vulgarity into the nation's family rooms—and just about everywhere else. There is almost no remote corner of this culture that is not marked by the tol ...
1) The power of gesture: What we can and cannot conclude from handshake between Raúl Castro and Obama The Great and the Humble Pay Tribute to Mandela, New York Times (Lydia Polgreen, Nicholas Kulish, and Alan Cowell) 2) Legalize marijuana or ha ...
Six months. That's how long it took to get from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act to the decision of a Colorado judge ordering a Christian baker to make a cake for a same-sex ceremony. Just six months. Bac ...