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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

The Briefing

The elites demand contraception... A Canadian judge legalizes prostitution... North Korea gets a succession plan... Americans don't know much about other Faiths... And kids say they really want to read on devices ...

September 29, 2010

The Briefing

Yet another rally in Washington... The New York Times claims a victory for families... A prominent abortion doctor dies... The Supreme Court looks again at free speech... Ted Haggard makes an odd argument... And the Reformation is reconsidered ...

September 28, 2010

It Takes a Court to Define Sin?

When a scandal breaks in the media, attention to previous scandals comes almost as a reflex. With accusations swirling around Atlanta's Bishop Eddie Long, the media have turned back to Ted Haggard, who, at the time of his own scandal, was pastor of N ...

September 27, 2010

The Prior Scandal — An Absence of Accountability

The expanding scandal now associated with Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta is only the latest to dominate the nation's media attention. Four young men have filed lawsuits against Bishop Long, accusing him of tra ...

September 27, 2010

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