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The Briefing 03-21-13

Story 1 - "Shame" is necessary, but is it moving in a liberal direction? Shame Is Not a Four-Letter Word, New York Times (Richard V. Reeves) Story 2 - Lent for the narcissist A Religious Ritual Attracts Even Nonbelievers, New York Times ( ...

March 21, 2013

The Briefing 03-20-13

Story 1 - The New Unmarried Moms - All-time high level of nonmarital child bearing The New Unmarried Moms, Wall Street Journal (Kay Hymowitz, W. Bradford Wilcox and Kelleen Kaye) Story 2 - Abortion's 'House of Horrors' in Philadelphia Abort ...

March 20, 2013

What Does Freedom Require? A Conversation with Os Guinness – Transcript

Os Guinness, Author, A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future Thinking in Public December 14, 2012 Mohler:            This is “Thinking in Public”, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline theolog ...

March 18, 2013

Gore Vidal and the Sky God

The death of author and controversialist Gore Vidal last week brought an end to one of America's most gifted and flamboyantly offensive literary voices. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was born in 1925 on the campus of the United States Military Academy at ...

August 6, 2012

The Dark Night in Denver — Groping for Answers

The news hit the airwaves like a sudden onslaught, and the truth began to sink in. It has happened again. This time, 50 people shot while attending the midnight premier of the last in the Batman sequence, "The Dark Knight Rises." According to press r ...

July 20, 2012

Recommended Reading: The Summer Reading List for 2012

Reading has its own seasons and rhythms. For much of the year, leaders and other busy people put off a great deal of the reading they want to do in favor of the reading they have to do. For many of us, summer affords the season to read at least a few ...

June 10, 2012

We humans are creatures of days and dates, though most fade quickly into the fog of memory. Researchers have recently identified a newly discovered phenomenon called "hyperthymesia," more commonly known as "autobiographical memory." Those who possess ...

May 18, 2012

Bigotry on the Ballot? No, Dishonesty in the Editorial

Many of the nation's leading newspapers serve as advocacy agents for the normalization of homosexuality and the legalization of same-sex marriage. Leading this charge for some time, The New York Times regularly promotes same-sex marriage in its edito ...

May 3, 2012

Is the Megachurch the New Liberalism?

The emergence of the megachurch as a model of metropolitan ministry is one of the defining marks of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Megachurches -- huge congregations that attract thousands of worshipers -- arrived on the scene in the ...

May 1, 2012

The Case of the Lesbian Den Mother: Moral Reasoning Exposed

By now, most Americans have probably heard of the lesbian mother forced out as a den mother for the Tiger Scouts, a program for first-graders offered by the Boy Scouts of America. For a few days, the story filtered through the Internet until it broke ...

April 30, 2012

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