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Adam and Eve: Clarifying Again What Is at Stake

Recent evangelical discussion concerning Adam and Eve has served at least one good purpose -- it has helped to clarify what is theologically at stake in the debate. The recent report by National Public Radio [NPR] alerted the larger secular culture t ...

August 31, 2011

A Laboratory for Christianity’s Destruction

As the BBC reports, some church leaders in the Netherlands want to transform their small nation into a laboratory for rethinking Christianity -- "experimenting with radical new ways of understanding the faith." Religious Affairs Correspondent Robert ...

August 26, 2011

Is God a Problem? Modern Theology Faces its Alternatives

The Christian Century, the venerable voice of liberal Protestantism, juxtaposed two significant obituaries in its August 23, 2011 edition -- and both on the same page. The magazine published a respectful obituary of evangelical titan John R. W. Stott ...

August 24, 2011

False Start? The Controversy Over Adam and Eve Heats Up

Each generation of Christians faces its own set of theological challenges. For this generation of Evangelicals, the question of beginnings is taking on a new urgency. In fact, this question is now a matter of Gospel urgency. How are we to understand ...

August 22, 2011

This Isn’t Meddling — It’s Murder

Euphemisms are the refuge of moral cowardice, and no euphemism is so cowardly or so deadly as "reduction" -- a word that sounds like math, but really means murder. The August 14, 2011 edition of The New York Times Magazine makes this fact clear in it ...

August 17, 2011

The Culture of Death Grows Desperate: War Declared on Crisis Pregnancy Centers

The U.S. Supreme Court's declaration of war upon the unborn in its infamous 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade, caught most conservative Christians unprepared and unaware. This shock to the nation's conscience required Christians and other pro-life activists ...

August 5, 2011

The Empire State’s Moral Revolution: New York State Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

The legal, social, moral, and political maps of America were redefined last Friday night as the New York State Senate voted 33-29 to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. The State Assembly had already approved the measure, leaving the Republican- ...

June 27, 2011

When the Church Bows to the State: Gay Bishops in the Church of England

As if the Church of England does not have enough troubles, word is leaking out of Lambeth Palace that the church is about to allow the appointment of openly gay bishops, so long as those bishops remain celibate. The news has emerged in the form o ...

June 22, 2011

A June Surprise? President Obama and Same-Sex Marriage

Is President Obama about to endorse same-sex marriage? The possibility was the subject of open speculation on the front page of Sunday's edition of The New York Times. Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg quoted an unnamed Democratic strategist close to the ...

June 20, 2011

Theology, Therapy, Twitter, and the Scandal of the Gospel

There is no shortage of perplexing realities in our world today, but counted among them must be the fact that many rather well informed people seem to be shocked that Christians believe the doctrines of Christianity. Over the weekend, Rep. Anthony W ...

June 14, 2011

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