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September 2010

September 03, 2010

Conservatives for Gay Marriage

According to the Huffington Post, so many conservatives are embracing gay marriage that many Democrats...

August 2010

August 31, 2010

International adoption

Michael Gerson writes a moving column about international adoption: Scott Simon -- the sonorous voice...

August 30, 2010

St. John the Hensley

My newest grandson, John Peter Hensley, was baptized yesterday. It happened to be on the...

August 18, 2010

The nature of marriage

Philosopher Stephen J. Heaney discusses the nature of marriage in the context of the same-sex...

August 17, 2010

Ordination

Well, I just got back from the ordination of my son-in-law, Ned Moerbe, and his...

August 12, 2010

Motherhood as vocation

Did you know that Mollie Hemingway, the confessional Lutheran journalist, has a column in Christianity...

August 11, 2010

Old people are both wise and happy

Empirical research is finding evidence that old people are not only wiser than younger people ...

June 2010

June 29, 2010

Vacation tips

Well, we just got back from another grueling road trip, whereupon I have to get...

June 28, 2010

The world of teen fiction

Christian journalist David Mills, editor of First Things, breaks down the version of reality reflected...

June 28, 2010

The world of teenagers

More from David Mills on what he has learned from studying today's teen fiction: That...

June 22, 2010

It’s nature to nurture

The conventional view in academia today is that sex is biological, but gender is a...

June 18, 2010

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Did you realize that one state in the union still requires an actual reason to...

June 18, 2010

Children of sperm donors

Researchers Karen Clark and Elizabeth Marquardt have studied the grown children whose fathers were anonymous...

June 17, 2010

Egypt orders Coptic Christians to allow divorce

The Egyptian government has ruled that Coptic Christians must change their doctrine about divorce and...

June 01, 2010

Update from the road

Well, our trip to Oklahoma has taken a different turn. We came here to celebrate...

May 2010

May 21, 2010

Domestic partnerships kill marriage

That's what's happening in France, where "95% of couples taking up the pacte civil de...

May 19, 2010

Another Christian politician caught in adultery

Is it any wonder that Christians are losing their credibility? Indiana congressman Mark Souder's resignation,...

May 17, 2010

Republicans’ new ideas

Republicans are reportedly working on some innovative but controversial ideas. Here are three examples: The...

May 10, 2010

Babies know right from wrong

So concludes some Yale researchers, who have devised experiments that show babies as young as...

May 06, 2010

The latest in under-aged drinking

That would be alcoholic energy drinks, such as Four Loco, Joose, Max, Liquid Charge, and...

April 2010

April 29, 2010

Baptism & Call Night

We're in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Our latest granddaughter, Evangeline, was baptized. And then last night...

March 2010

March 31, 2010

Abstinence funding

The health care reform bill consisted of 1,990 pages. Congressmen could hardly have read what...

March 23, 2010

Can’t afford to divorce

The divorce rate has gone down ever since the recession started. Couples can't afford to...

March 19, 2010

Evangeline!

I have a new granddaughter! Evangeline Christi Moerbe. Isn't that a great name?

March 15, 2010

The Prodigal Father

How many times have you read the story of the Prodigal Son? How many sermons...

March 12, 2010

Gendercide

Mollie Hemingway writes about media coverage of sex-selective abortion, particularly in China and India where...

March 11, 2010

Two brothers, one atheist and the other Christian

Christopher Hitchens is currently one of the major evangelists (if one can use that word)...

March 02, 2010

How Catholic Charities is dealing with gay marriage

On Wednesday, gay marriage will be legal in Washington, D.C. To avoid having to pay...

February 2010

February 05, 2010

Gays’ open marriages

Joe Carter discusses a New York Times article on a particular characteristic of gay marriages:...

January 2010

January 25, 2010

Disciplining children

You've got to read Mollie Z. Hemingway's article in the Wall Street Journal about disciplining...