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  • Give up contempt for Lent

    Give up contempt for Lent

    I wonder if one thing we all might strive to give up this Lent is contempt. It’s the conviction that while your side “is driven by benevolence,” the other side “is evil and motivated by hatred.”

  • Can science explain everything?

    Can science explain everything?

    In his latest book, “Can Science Explain Everything?” Lennox makes a compelling case against what is known as “scientism,” the ideology that insists that “science” is or should be the sole criterion by which society should know what is true and good.

  • Stripping symbols of religious content: The Bladensburg Cross and the Supreme Court

    Stripping symbols of religious content: The Bladensburg Cross and the Supreme Court

    If the American Humanist Association prevails, the implications would reach far beyond this memorial in Maryland to any and all memorials on public land everywhere in the country. Any of them with anything resembling a cross or religious symbol of any kind would be fair game.

  • Lesbian tennis star slammed for saying men shouldn't be able to compete as women

    Lesbian tennis star slammed for saying men shouldn't be able to compete as women

    In a recent column in the Times of London, Navratilova wrote that allowing male athletes who identify as transgender to compete against biological women is “insane.”

  • Why religious persecution in China could get worse

    Why religious persecution in China could get worse

    Unfortunately, short of divine intervention, it may be that things will get significantly worse. As I’ve told you before on BreakPoint, Xi Jinping has become the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao.

  • Population bust, not population bomb

    Population bust, not population bomb

    There’s a whole host of “should-be-dead-by-now” ideas having to do with so-called “overpopulation.” I say “so-called” because virtually every dire prediction Paul Ehrlich made fifty years ago in his book “The Population Bomb” was wrong. Spectacularly wrong, in fact. Yet Ehrlich’s ideas remain an article of faith among many—and I mean that literally.

  • Millennials and evangelism: The plague of emotivism

    Millennials and evangelism: The plague of emotivism

    What is meant by “knowing Jesus” by so many Christians is closer to “I love Swiss Almond Vanilla ice cream” than it is what the Apostles meant by it. It indicates a strong preference, but not a life-altering conviction.

  • Genetically-modified humans are fine as long as you kill them?

    Genetically-modified humans are fine as long as you kill them?

    So, given that we really can’t distinguish between the motives of the two projects, why was Dr. He vilified by the entire scientific world while Dr. Egli is not? Why did Dr. He lose his job, while Dr. Egli is enjoying puff-piece interviews by NPR?

  • Is assisted suicide now homicide in the Netherlands?

    Is assisted suicide now homicide in the Netherlands?

    Add it all up, and in 2017 more than 40,000 of the 150,000 deaths in the Netherlands were induced.

  • Infanticide in a world without Christianity

    Infanticide in a world without Christianity

    A couple of years ago, Jeremiah Johnston and his wife binge-watched the HBO series “The Man in the High Castle.” The series is set in a world where Nazi Germany and Japan won World War II and now occupy the United States.