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Bob Woodward writes a new book... Ahmadinejad prompts a walk out at the United Nations... Americans still read books... But not so many boys... Evangelicals experience an adoption season... And Christianity Today looks at hipster Christianity ...

September 24, 2010

What Would Luther Say? — A Church Apologizes for Church Discipline

The great moral revolution on the issue of homosexuality collides with the total surrender of a liberal denomination, and the result is the church's apology for having once stood on biblical grounds. That was the picture just a few days ago, when the ...

September 23, 2010

Damon Linker Offers a Religious Test — From the Left

One of the illusions of modernist thinking is that religious beliefs can be sanitized and separated from public life. The experience of humanity disproves that theory, but it nevertheless remains something of a sacred precept within the intellectual ...

September 23, 2010

The Briefing

Newsweek Redefines Masculinity... The Courts take on Gay Rights... Women take over the Swiss Government... A Church apologizes for doing its Job... And a debate over Urinary Segregation ...

September 23, 2010

Man Up or Man Down? Newsweek Redefines Masculinity

"We've arrived at another crossroads," declares Newsweek -- and this one represents a crisis for masculinity. As the magazine's current cover story asserts, "The prevailing codes of manhood have yet to adjust to the changing demands on men." With thi ...

September 23, 2010

A Favorite Quote from Jimmy Carter’s Diaries

The publication this week of White House Diary, the edited diary entries of former President Jimmy Carter, is a signal event in the publishing world. The book really is as interesting as expected, and much is revealed about Jimmy Carter and his times ...

September 22, 2010

The Briefing

The Recession is over... Don't ask, don't tell... Politicians go for sin taxes... A College Education pays off... Boys run in Girls Races in America... While Girls dress like Boys in Afganistan ...

September 22, 2010

The Briefing

Americans and the News... The World of Bricks and Clicks... The Pope Beatifies a Cardinal... A Call for Heathen Republicans... Yoga Strikes a Nerve... And Newsweek looks at Men ...

September 21, 2010

The Briefing

Secularism in Europe... Religion in Politics... Why the Public Schools can't be fixed... Why the United Nations flirt with Abortion... Why some Married Couples say I Do..Again... And why some Women think they are Priests ...

September 20, 2010

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