- 07/04/2010
When Feminism Kills — Abortion As 'The Lesser Evil'
Even as she admits that her position on the moral status of the unborn child has been utterly changed, she insists that her absolutist position on abortion rights has not.
- 06/25/2010
The Case Against Marriage, Courtesy of Newsweek
One essential task for the Christian Church is to rebuild and maintain a marriage culture — even when marriage itself no longer makes sense to so many around us.
- 06/22/2010
The End of Men?
What does it mean for large sectors of our society to become virtual matriarchies? How do we prepare the church to deal with such a world while maintaining biblical models of manhood and womanhood? …The real issue here is not the end of men, but the disappearance of manhood.
- 06/17/2010
Meet the New American Family, Digitally Deluged
Christians are not called to be modern-day Luddites, smashing digital devices with sledgehammers. But we are called to be faithful stewards of digital opportunities, even as we are also called to be faithful in all our relationships. That second stewardship is surely of greater importance than the first.
- 06/15/2010
The Amazing Technicolor Multifaith Theology School
This move by the Claremont School of Theology illustrates what happens when churches and denominations allow their institutions to embrace theological liberalism. Watch this development carefully. Claremont may be the first multifaith seminary, but it will almost surely not be the last.
- 06/14/2010
The Briefing: From Young, Restless, and Jewish, to Peter Singer and the Pope
What follows is a briefing of writings that should not escape your review.
- 06/11/2010
After IVF, Abortion? What Does This Say?
One might think that the most welcome place in the world for an unborn child would be the womb of a mother who would be so intent on getting pregnant that she would seek and undergo IVF fertility treatment. It turns out that in a significant number of cases, that assumption is proved wrong. How do we take the measure of that tragedy?
- 06/09/2010
Is 'Ever After' Just Too Long? Marriage and Modernity
The announcement that Al and Tipper Gore are separating after forty years of marriage has captured the attention of the American public to a rather surprising degree.
- 06/05/2010
Homosexuality and the Military - What's Really at Stake?
Unless something alters the political context, the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is about to become history, and the U.S. military is about to be changed forever. The summer of 2010 may well turn out to be a watershed season in this nation’s life and history. Is anyone paying attention?
- 06/04/2010
Summer Reading - Books Fit for the Season
Among the ten books I commend this year are books dealing with cowboys, Indians, gangsters, lawmen, trains, spies, and battles. Those looking for books on birds and romance should consult some other list.
- 06/02/2010
A Black Cat in a Dark Room – Are Theologians Really Saying Anything?
True theology is not explaining the unknowable, but coming to know the God who wants us to know him. Theology is about knowledge — indeed, about the knowledge that matters most of all.
- 05/28/2010
Has Man Created Life?
Humanity had better think hard about whether this is a journey we are ready to entrust to scientists alone. The most urgent question raised by this new announcement is not so much what it means, but where it leads.
Tags Ethics/rights - 05/25/2010
Pornography - The Difference Being a Parent Makes
Steve Jobs is a businessman of unquestioned ability, a technological wizard, and one of the greatest orchestrators of “cool” in world history. Nevertheless, he has not been known as a critic of pornography . . . until now.
- 05/24/2010
Do We Really Know Jesus? Adam Gopnik and the Gospels
The Christian faith stands or falls on the truthfulness of the four Gospels. There is no way around this fact. Our choice is nothing less than between the Jesus who merely fascinates and the Jesus who saves.
- 05/20/2010
'For the Sake of God' - Must We Surrender Sexual Morality?
Ruth Gledhill calls upon Anglicans to just drop the issue of homosexuality “for the sake of God, themselves, and the common good.”
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