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The Dangerous Worlds of Analog Parents with Digital Teens

Sunday's edition of The New York Times gave front-page attention to the problem of adolescent bullying on the Internet. There can be no question that the Internet and the explosion of social media have facilitated the arrival of a new and deeply sini ...

December 8, 2010

The Briefing

A look back on Pearl Harbor.. A Retreat from Marriage... Noah's Ark... And Tax Cuts ...

December 7, 2010

Who’s Afraid of Noah’s Ark?

A proposal to build a theme park that would feature a life-size replica of Noah's Ark has set off a controversy in Kentucky that is worth watching. Within days, the controversy had spread to the pages of The New York Times and USA Today. So, who's a ...

December 7, 2010

The Retreat from Marriage — A Recipe for Disaster

If you were determined to consign a population to poverty and any number of social pathologies, how might you do it? If your design is to extend the effects of these pathologies and pains to successive generations, what might be your plan? The answer ...

December 7, 2010

The Briefing

Youth Suspected as Cartel Hit Man... Civil Unions Advance in Illinois... A Bill could limit bake sales... And in Pakistan, Christianity earns a Death Sentence ...

December 6, 2010

The Briefing

House Censures Rep. Charles Rangel... The Movement of Liberal Christians... WikiLeaks... And a look at Human Sinfulness ...

December 3, 2010

Empire or Cow Town? National Geographic Looks at the Kingdom of David and Solomon

Tel Aviv University archaeologist Israel Finkelstein argues that the kingdom of David and Solomon is a greatly embellished biblical fiction. Jerusalem, he argues, was a cow town, a "hill country village." David was an insurrectionist and bandit whose ...

December 3, 2010

The Knowledge of the Self-Revealing God: Starting Point for the Christian Worldview

One of the most important principles of Christian thinking is the recognition that there is no stance of intellectual neutrality. No human being is capable of achieving a process of thought that requires no presuppositions, assumptions, or inherited ...

December 3, 2010

The Briefing

Those challenging books find strength in numbers... Dictators, Democracies and WikiLeaks... Momentous admission on Katyn massacre... Russia admits Stalin ordered 1940 Massacres of Poles... And The Closing of the Marijuana Frontier ...

December 2, 2010

The Briefing

A Media False Alarm over the T.S.A... Salon.com Opens Parlor to Possible Partner... Older readers kindle fondness for e-readers... And A Woman. A Prostitute. A Slave. ...

November 30, 2010

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