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The Trial that Still Must Come — The Death of Osama bin Laden and the Limits of Human Justice

Osama bin Laden is dead. President Obama spoke with clarity and resolution when he addressed the American people last night: "Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed ...

May 2, 2011

A Special Edition On The Death of Osama Bin Laden

Obama's Remarks on Bin Laden's Killing ...

May 2, 2011

The Briefing

With 'Coolest Job Ever' Ending, Astronauts Seek Next Frontier... Technology Advances; Humans Supersize ...

April 29, 2011

The Briefing

Atheists Seek Chaplain Role in the Military... What the World Sees in America... A Bridge Under Scrutiny, by Plotters and the Police... In WikiLeaks' Growth, Some Control Is Lost... Nation's Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Poll Shows ...

April 28, 2011

Nero in Beijing — The Communist Party Declares War on Christians

The news out of China grows worse as reports of the arrest, detention, harassment, and beatings of Christians come from across China. The most publicized case thus far is the repeated oppression against a Beijing congregation that has led to numerous ...

April 28, 2011

The Briefing

Law Firm Won't Defend Marriage Act... Gay Rights Group Contacted Law Firm's Clients in Campaign to Intimidate DOMA's Defenders... Tornado Season Intensifies, Without Clear Scientific Consensus on Why... U.S. Faces a Challenge in Trying to Punish Syri ...

April 27, 2011

A Warning of Intimidations to Come

The defense of the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] got a little more complicated yesterday as the law firm that the House of Representatives had hired to defend the law withdrew from the case. As The New York Times stated bluntly, the firm dropped the ...

April 26, 2011

“God’s True Vision of the Way Things Ought to Be?” — It’s Not Really About Same-Sex Marriage

The Douglas Boulevard Christian Church in Louisville has voted to stop performing legal marriages in light of Kentucky's constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriages. As Peter Smith of The Courier-Journal [Louisville] reported: Douglass B ...

April 25, 2011

Why Conservative Churches Are Growing: David Brooks and the Limits of Sociology

By the late 1960s, liberal Protestants began asking a rather difficult question. Why were the conservative churches growing? In retrospect, one aspect of the liberal Protestant crisis was reflected in that very question. The mainline Protestant denom ...

April 25, 2011

Of First Importance — The Cross and Resurrection at the Center

The Christian faith is not a mere collection of doctrines — a bag of truths. Christianity is a comprehensive truth claim that encompasses every aspect of revealed doctrine, but is centered in the gospel of Jesus Christ. And, as the apostolic prea ...

April 22, 2011

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