- 08/07/2012
Gore Vidal and the Sky God
The death of author and controversialist Gore Vidal last week brought an end to one of America's most gifted and flamboyantly offensive literary voices. In his 1992 Lowell Lecture at Harvard University, Vidal attacked not just Christianity, but the very notion of monotheism.
100 comments - 07/21/2012
The Dark Night in Denver – Groping for Answers
How could such a thing happen? How could a human being do such a thing? There is no easy answer to this question. The easy answers are never satisfying, and they are often based in the confused moral calculus of popular culture. Christians are driven by instinct to think in biblical and theological terms.
37 comments - 06/07/2012
Southern Baptists and Salvation: It's Time to Talk
A recent statement on the doctrine of salvation has received a good bit of attention in recent days. It is no small matter that Southern Baptists are discussing how best to speak of God's salvation, even as we are fully engaged in the task of reaching the nations with the Gospel of Christ.
75 comments - 06/06/2012
Can Christians Use Birth Control?
The effective separation of sex from procreation may be one of the most important defining marks of our age–and one of the most ominous. This awareness is spreading among American evangelicals, and it threatens to set loose a firestorm.
259 comments - 06/02/2012
The Seduction of Pornography and the Integrity of Christian Marriage, Part 2
Marriage is not merely the arena for sexual activity, it is presented in Scripture as the divinely-designed arena for the display of God's glory on earth as a man and a wife come together in a one-flesh relationship within the marriage covenant.
- 05/30/2012
The Seduction of Pornography and the Integrity of Christian Marriage, Part 1
The most important answer we can give to pornography's rise in popularity is rooted in the Christian doctrine of sin. As sinners, we corrupt what God has perfectly designed for the good of His creatures and we have turned sex into a carnival of orgiastic pleasures.
- 05/10/2012
Evolution's End? President Obama Calls for Same-Sex Marriage
President Obama's call for the legalization of same-sex marriage yesterday is an historic and tragic milestone. An incumbent President of the United States has now called for a transformation of civilization's central institution.
307 comments - 05/05/2012
Bigotry on the Ballot? No, Dishonesty in the Editorial
The New York Times regularly promotes same-sex marriage in its editorials and news coverage. Even so, the paper's latest editorial serves as a display of how the argument for homosexual marriage is often pressed with what can only be described as undisguised intellectual dishonesty.
- 05/01/2012
Is the Megachurch the New Liberalism?
A shot now reverberating around the evangelical world was fired by Atlanta megachurch pastor Andy Stanley in recent days. He told the congregation an account that seemed to normalize homosexuality.
- 04/30/2012
The Case of the Lesbian Den Mother: Moral Reasoning Exposed
Sexual relationships are off-limits for moral judgment. Once sexual behavior is removed from moral scrutiny, what will be next to be declared off-limits.
- 04/25/2012
The Ugly American — Sex Trafficking and Our National Humiliation
The sexual revolution of the last several decades has transformed any public conversation about sex and sexuality. The revolutionaries directed their attention to the dismantling of an entire edifice of sexual morality that had been basically intact for well over 2,000 years.
68 comments - 04/24/2012
The Deep Limitations of Digital Church
Do you go to the Internet for church? Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today reported this week on the increasing use of digital technology by churches. This trend is not new, of course, but some of the developments she traces are fresh and innovative.
- 04/20/2012
The Post-Christian Condition – Anders Breivik and the Limitations of Justice
The trial of Anders Behring Breivik represents one of the greatest tests of human justice in decades. Breivik has celebrated his murderous actions in court, calling his massacre the most "spectacular" event in recent European history.
68 comments - 04/02/2012
Secularism With the Gloves Off: Vanderbilt U's Assault on Religious Organizations
In more recent months, Vanderbilt's administration decided to push secularism to the extreme — launching a virtual vendetta against religious organizations on campus.
19 comments - 03/20/2012
Rest in Print, Britannica: An Elegy for an Encyclopedia
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced Tuesday that it would no longer offer its venerable reference set in a printed edition. Western Civilization just took another hard blow to the chin.
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