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  • A Deafening Silence as Iraqi Christians Vanish

    A Deafening Silence as Iraqi Christians Vanish

    A grave humanitarian crisis is sweeping Iraq. The President has announced humanitarian aid and air strikes against ISIS. He needs to do more. President Obama has said there's no military solution to this crisis. But there are other measures to take, and Wolf is calling for the president to take a number of them immediately, including:

  • Learning From Young Atheists: What Turned Them Off Christianity

    Learning From Young Atheists: What Turned Them Off Christianity

    Have you ever asked a young atheist why he or she doesn't believe? Well, one researcher did. And the answers may surprise you.

  • The Faith of Soccer Star Tim Howard

    The Faith of Soccer Star Tim Howard

    With the success of the U.S. soccer team, more Americans than ever before have watched the World Cup. And one player's faith is making headlines.

  • Freedom Requires Virtue, Which Requires Faith: The Golden Triangle of Freedom

    Freedom Requires Virtue, Which Requires Faith: The Golden Triangle of Freedom

    To those of you who don't think religious freedom is that important, I've got a message for you: It isn't. It isn't, that is, if you don't care about any of your freedoms.

  • The Furious Love of God: A Story Behind the Black Mass

    The Furious Love of God: A Story Behind the Black Mass

    If you're like me, you were probably irked that Harvard would allow a reenactment of a satanic black mass. But hold on, because there's a lesson in all this.

  • Christian Singles and Practical Atheism

    Christian Singles and Practical Atheism

    But as James teaches us, a Christian faith that's all bark and no bite isn't faith at all, and can't save anybody. So this sad statistic about young Christians and sex before marriage ought to challenge us, as the epistle says, to "show our faith by what we do."

  • Flocking to 'Other Christianities:' Like Seagulls to Trash Piles

    Flocking to 'Other Christianities:' Like Seagulls to Trash Piles

    Harvard is once again touting a dubious scrap of papyrus that claims to quote Jesus as having a wife. Why would they do that? The fragment is what those who worked on the fragment want to find — they need it to be real. That's because the fragment allows them to talk about "Christianities," plural, and "questions about family and marriage and sexuality and Jesus."

  • Nobody Expects the Rainbow Inquisition

    Nobody Expects the Rainbow Inquisition

    For the past several decades, the scope of what constitutes protected and permissible speech has been narrowing. Views that were commonplace in 2008 are regarded as beyond the pale now. Evidently, the only way to get back into good graces is to publicly recant your position.

  • Religious Liberty Protections Should Apply to Both Individuals and Corporations

    Religious Liberty Protections Should Apply to Both Individuals and Corporations

    In the contraceptive mandate case Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby—argued Tuesday, March 25th—the government asserts that corporations can't exercise religion because they're not people – and that the people who own corporations can't exercise religion through them because they aren't corporations. Did you follow that? Me neither. But it's true.

  • 'Noah,' Mass Entertainment, and Us

    'Noah,' Mass Entertainment, and Us

    As several colleagues of mine have pointed out, the level of vituperation among Christians over Darren Aronofsky's film is "nuts." Roberto Rivera, a colleague, said that we shouldn't look to the entertainment industry for validation of our beliefs and way of life. And that, sadly, is what too many of us are doing.