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The Briefing

The Nobel Prize goes to In Vitro Fertilization... A Hate Speech in the Netherlands... Britain Cuts the Welfare State... How we remember our Misdeeds... Digital Readers Bend the Curve... And why Hand Writing is Still Important ...

October 6, 2010

The Briefing

A retied justice speech... Playboy goes after a female market... Religion in a public education... The end of the Post Office... But no end to procrastination ...

October 5, 2010

The Briefing

Las Vegas hits the Skids... A Medical Horror Story in Guatemala... Stem Cells are back in the News... Tallying the Rallies in Washington... And why Teenagers just won't Grow Up ...

October 4, 2010

Between the Boy and the Bridge — A Haunting Question

By all accounts Tyler Clementi was an 18-year-old young man who was excited to be a freshman in college, gifted as a violinist, and looking forward to the future. All that changed last week when he walked out onto the massive George Washington Bridge ...

October 4, 2010

Evolution: When Atheists and Baptists Agree?

Writing at "On Faith," a joint project of The Washington Post and Newsweek, Rachel Held Evans calls for me to stop arguing against evolution and get with the program. She takes particular aim at this statement I made at the 2010 Ligonier Ministries N ...

October 1, 2010

The Black Church and the Prosperity Gospel

The scandals surrounding Atlanta's Bishop Eddie Long now center on allegations of sexual immorality put forth by four young men who had been teenagers under his ministry. But previous attention had been directed at the financial elements of his minis ...

October 1, 2010

The Briefing

A death in the Hudson River... Sex trafficking on the internet... Another look at the rally on the Mall... And folks who go green, feel guilty ...

October 1, 2010

The Briefing

Marriage on the mind... Divorce on the conscience... Left-behind kids in China... And a generation of nincompoops at home ...

September 30, 2010

Divorce — The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

Mark A. Smith, who teaches political science at the University of Washington, pays close attention to what is now commonly called the "culture war" in America. Though the roots of this cultural conflict reach back to the 1960s, the deep divide over s ...

September 30, 2010

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