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March 2015

March 24, 2015

Profound reflection by a Jew on Christianity

David Gelernter is a man I have long admired.  A professor of computer science at...

March 23, 2015

The Book That Deflated Darwin Day

If someone prior to 2012 had predicted that Oxford University Press would publish a book...

March 21, 2015

Why gay marriage will be like no-fault divorce

Kristof is correct: the result of ignoring Moynihan’s report has been epic disaster for children....

March 18, 2015

Can we understand the Bible apart from tradition?

Peter Wehner reflects on tradition in the current issue of Commentary. He observes that even...

March 17, 2015

A politically-correct defiance of political correctness

Such statements have yet to affect Dolce & Gabbana’s business, but as gay rights make...

March 17, 2015

Why scares about oil and climate change are wildly overdone

Although the world has certainly warmed since the 19th century, the rate of warming has...

March 16, 2015

Has biblical criticism negated the Exodus?

The extent to which biblical criticism challenges believers has been vastly exaggerated; there is no...

March 14, 2015

Obama’s religion

Obama’s expressed beliefs do not, of course, represent traditional Christian orthodoxy, but they do represent...

March 13, 2015

“A Rather Antinomian Christianity”: John Updike’s Religion

John Updike believed in a strange sort of Christianity that rejected the strictures of traditional...

March 10, 2015

Was there an exodus?

Joshua Berman Scholars routinely accept texts containing supernatural occurrences as historically reliable. Except, that is,...

March 09, 2015

Why I rejected my gay partnership

Doug Mainwaring Once I began thinking, reasoning, and examining my life, an extraordinary thing happened:...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

How political correctness improved my life

Still naïve, I thought, “I just tapped into the latent pro-life movement at Harvard Law...

February 25, 2015

Why Christian colleges will lose their integrity if they extend marriage benefits to same-sex couples

When a university’s administration, knowing that “same-sex marriages” are in a Catholic understanding not truly...

February 25, 2015

Natural and positive rights–and sexual exploitation

Matthew Franck God is the one most radically free being, the Being that is the...

February 24, 2015

Same-Sex Parenting: Unpacking the Social Science

For some people, scientific research on the subject of same-sex parenting is irrelevant. A new...

February 20, 2015

New offer from first-ever Christian Zionism conference

"People of the Land": A Twenty-first Century Case for Christian Zionism This is the title...

February 12, 2015

How a Decadent Culture Makes Me Think Like Sorokin

Robert Benne Our newspaper carried for many years a celebrated local columnist who identified himself...

February 10, 2015

New research shows kids with gay parents fare worse

Published research employing the New Family Structures Study (NFSS), the ECLS (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study),...

February 09, 2015

Protesting Israel

Does BDS really want to teach students that Israel needs pressure to be a better...

February 08, 2015

Surprising and helpful reflections from a chaste Catholic lesbian

I like Eve Tushnet. She is a faithful Catholic who is also lesbian. I would...

February 07, 2015

Are Muslim and Christian histories morally equivalent?

President Obama seems to think so. At the National Prayer Breakfast a few days ago...

February 06, 2015

Why transgender does not make sense

We should make public policy and encourage social norms that reflect the truth about the...

February 05, 2015

“I was that girl in the tuxedo”–personal reflection on transgender

Teens struggling with their sexual identity may seem to have more options than they did...

February 03, 2015

The Alarming Thing About Climate Alarmism

Exaggerated, worst-case claims result in bad policy and they ignore a wealth of encouraging data....

February 02, 2015

Dear Justice Kennedy: An Open Letter from the Child of a Loving Gay Parent

Take it from the adult child of a loving gay parent: redefining marriage promotes a...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

The alarming dangers of egg donation

I decided to speak out mainly because, as our film Eggsploitation states over and over,...

January 29, 2015

What draws people to radical Islam?

People throw themselves into campaigns of murder and suicide because they have come under the...

January 29, 2015

Should Christians Still Think the Land of Israel is Important Theologically?

Although the land of Israel has universal appeal, most Christians during the last two millennia...

January 22, 2015

Isn’t experience more important than doctrine?

Recently a minister suggested to me that true Christian faith has nothing to do with...

January 21, 2015

Why don’t more evangelicals recognize the medical and theological problems with the Pill?

True confessions. My wife and I used it for a short time when we were...

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