- 05/27/2012
A Wakeup Call for the Church: Young People Saying 'You Lost Me'
We've all seen the statistics and heard the stories: Good Christian kids go to college, grow disillusioned, and leave the faith. In his new book, "You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church . . . and Rethinking Faith," David Kinnaman writes, "Overall, there is a 43 percent drop-off between the teen and early adult years in terms of church engagement."
241 comments - 05/25/2012
Bored to Death? How We Consume Media
Popular culture, with its emphasis on the new and immediate, reliance on instant accessibility and the casual, time-killing way it is usually consumed, is changing us — and not for the better: We are becoming less reflective, more impatient and easily-bored.
3 comments - 05/21/2012
Mindless Entertainment at the Movies
Is there anything wrong with a little mindless entertainment? Well, maybe not, but too many of us are engaging in a lot more than just a little of it.
- 05/18/2012
Ghoulish 'Art:' The Body Worlds Exhibit
Why should we care about how human corpses are treated? Your answer depends on your worldview.
32 comments - 05/17/2012
Playing the Stooge: Georgetown and Kathleen Sebelius
How has the nation's oldest Catholic University responded to the HHS mandate? I almost don't want to tell you.
30 comments - 05/14/2012
The Battle for Marriage: Imagination, Culture and Politics
Popular culture, including "Will and Grace," has shaped the way Americans feel about same-sex relationships.
- 05/12/2012
Spirituality as Parody
For many of today's spiritual seekers, life is a big buffet: Take a little of this, a little of that. But how nourishing is this spiritual smorgasbord?
3 comments - 05/11/2012
Redefining Bullying: A Savage Attack
Americans recently got a lesson in hypocrisy -- and of how dangerous it can be to redefine words.
78 comments - 05/07/2012
Telling the Whole Story: The Flight of Chen Guangcheng
The whole world loves a good escape story. But in the case of a certain Chinese dissident, the world needs to hear the rest of the story.
3 comments - 05/04/2012
New York and Christianity
It's like the Sinatra song: If Christianity can make it there, it can make it anywhere. I'm talking about New York, New York, my home town.
Tags Tim Tebow - 04/27/2012
Chuck Colson Never Left Prison
Apart from Watergate, Chuck is best-known for his ministry to prisoners. But to say that Chuck ministered to prisoners is to miss the point almost entirely.
1 comments - 04/23/2012
Thanks to My Friend and Mentor: A Tribute to Chuck Colson
I'm not old enough to remember Chuck as a controversial political figure during Watergate, so I have always thought of him mainly as an inspiring Christian leader.
- 04/18/2012
Loving Them: How We Talk About Life
There's a tendency sometimes to demonize our enemies instead of loving them and, more to the point, showing them that we love them.
- 04/12/2012
Religion in the Public Square
I'm thrilled public schools are now teaching religion all over the country. But, you'll have to guess which country.
55 comments - 04/11/2012
The Need for Strong Marriages
If strong marriages are the foundation of a healthy society, we've got a lot of repair work to do.
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