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“A Massive Shift Coming in What it Means to Be a Christian?” — TIME Magazine Considers Rob Bell

The edition of TIME magazine timed for Easter Week features a cover story on the controversy over Rob Bell and his new book, Love Wins. Interestingly, the essay is written by none other than Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former e ...

April 15, 2011

The Briefing

Fights brew on abortion rights... Who's the Extremist Now?... Puberty too soon... Parents decry marketers who push sexuality on little girls... Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?... Fighting Teenage Pregnancy With MTV Stars as Exhibit A ...

April 14, 2011

Scientific Extremism on Display — And the Prize Goes To . . .

Last week, Britain's Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees, was announced as the recipient of the 2011 Templeton Prize. The prize, awarded annually, provides a cash award greater than the Nobel Prize and is presented, according to the Templeton Foundati ...

April 14, 2011

The Briefing

Late Clash on Abortion Shows Conservatives' Sway... Abortion and the Shutdown... Taliban Seen Stirring Mob to Violence in Afghanistan... Voodoo, an Anchor, Rises Again ...

April 11, 2011

Why is the Muslim World So Resistant to the Gospel?

The future shape of the world appears to be a worldview competition between Christianity, Islam, and Western Secularism. For Christians, both of these worldviews represent real and lasting challenges to evangelism. Neither of these is a particularly ...

April 8, 2011

The Briefing

Federal Workers Brace for Email Withdrawal... Berlusconi Sex Trial Begins... The Only Game in Town? Richard Dawkins and the Limits of Reason... Rinse Not the Prose: Christopher Hitchens on the King James Version... Manual High students' project raise ...

April 8, 2011

What He Wanted All Along: The Real Scandal of Pastor Terry Jones

The case of Florida pastor Terry Jones presents Christians with an easy judgment but a difficult dilemma. This publicity-seeking pastor of a tiny congregation deserves to be condemned in every way for his act of putting the Qur'an "on trial" and f ...

April 8, 2011

Rinse Not the Prose: Christopher Hitchens on the King James Version

Why would an ardent atheist care about translations of the Bible, and why would Christians be concerned with what an atheist would think? These are rather obvious questions, especially when the atheist is Christopher Hitchens, one of the most influen ...

April 7, 2011

The Only Game in Town? Richard Dawkins and the Limits of Reason

Evolution by natural selection is "the only game in town, the greatest show on Earth," asserts Richard Dawkins. We have come to expect claims like this from Richard Dawkins, perhaps the most famous defender of Darwinian evolution alive today. Unlike ...

April 6, 2011

The Briefing

Often, the Dead Are Never Found... Obama begins 2012 run with challenges, advantages... Wounded in Crossfire of a Capital Culture War... Nixon Library Opens a Door Some Would Prefer Left Closed... Book on Gandhi Stirs Passion in India... Among the Ha ...

April 6, 2011

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