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June 2018

June 20, 2018

“Bearing” the Name of the God Who “Takes” Our Sin

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain" (Exodus 20:7). I've heard...

June 19, 2018

A Medical Specialty in Infanticide?

The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology has applied to the American Board of Medical...

June 07, 2018

Nearly Half of Americans Believe Pornography Is “Morally Acceptable”

The annual Values and Belief Survey from Gallup has found that nearly close to half Americans--with...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

Does Vocation Allow a Spy to Employ Sex as an Espionage Tactic?

In our recent post, The Vocation of a Spy, we discussed whether espionage is a...

May 17, 2018

Defending Child-Killing in the Name of Cultural Relativism

In the jungles of Brazil, some tribes kill children who are disabled, who were born...

May 16, 2018

The Abdication of the Medical Profession

The medical profession enjoys some of the highest level of respect in the country, and...

May 15, 2018

How the Commandments Define Civil Society (and What This Means for Abortion)

The always-interesting Peter Leithart, a fellow Patheos blogger, discusses Systematic Theology, II: The Works of God (2001)...

May 02, 2018

Respecting the Office

French President Emmanuel Macron and American President Donald Trump disagree on just about everything--economics, immigration,...

May 01, 2018

Luther’s Political Teachings

In yesterday's post on Luther and Trump, we drew on the work of economist Lyman...

April 2018

April 18, 2018

Being Moral vs. Moralizing

John Daniel Davidson makes a useful distinction between "being moral" and "moralizing." From his article...

April 13, 2018

How Social Media Is Designed Around Sin

Trevor Sutton, my co-author of Authentic Christianity, has written a fascinating article entitled Social Media...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

I, Thou vs. I, It

Years ago, I read the book I and Thou by the Jewish theologian Martin Buber. ...

March 23, 2018

Nietzsche’s Critique of the New Atheists

Traditional atheists argue that God does not exist. The "new atheists" employ a moral argument...

March 07, 2018

Surrogacy for Money

After getting married, the next step for most couples is having children. Now that we have...

March 05, 2018

Vocation and Self-Defense

In the current debates over gun ownership and self-defense, we would do well to consider...

March 01, 2018

The Pope’s Efforts to Reverse Birth Control Ban

It appears that Pope Francis is trying to reverse the Catholic Church's unpopular and widely-ignored...

February 2018

February 20, 2018

The Two Kingdoms Doctrine Does Not Mean Moral Relativism

Some evangelicals and other conservative Christians who support President Trump no matter what he says...

February 20, 2018

Hollywood’s New Rules for Sex Scenes in Light of #MeToo

Hollywood is reeling from the sexual abuse and harassment scandal that brought down producer Harvey...

February 14, 2018

A Serious Call to Ban Pornography

Some of you may remember that in our predictions for 2018, I said that the...

February 08, 2018

The Olympics & the Disenchantment of Sports

The Winter Olympics start today. Are you all fired up about that? No? The entire...

February 07, 2018

Coveting as the Root of the Other Sins

The Jewish scholar Leonard Greenspoon of Creighton University (a Catholic institution) explores the concept of "coveting" in...

February 02, 2018

The End of Anonymous Access to Pornography?

The pendulum is swinging against sexual permissiveness, as the reaction against sexual abuse and sexual...

February 01, 2018

Hypocrisy at the Grammys

The Grammy Awards last Sunday, the music industry's award show, featured the by-now familiar litany...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

Why Secularists Have Problems with Forgiveness

There is currently no real concept for forgiveness in the secular world, no mechanism for...

January 18, 2018

The Philosophy That Opposes Birth and Being Born

In researching policies that are "antinatalist"--that is, "anti-birth," discouraging having children--I found that there is...

January 09, 2018

Spiritual Abuse?

The phenomenon is real, though I worry that it will be used as a club...

January 09, 2018

Warnings Against the “Re-Moralization” of Sex

People are fighting to keep the sexual revolution alive, even as it falls apart. They...

January 03, 2018

How the Sexual Revolution Morphed into a Religion

If traditional religions are receding, and yet much of the population remains “spiritual but not...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

A New Sexual Identity: The Digisexuals

Add to the panoply of sexual preferences, orientations, and identities a new term, one that...

November 24, 2017

Taxpayers Have Been Paying Congressmen’s Sex Settlements

Now that the sexual harassment and abuse of women is coming out of the closet, we...