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November 2014

November 11, 2014

Dershowitz: Amnesty International Has Become an Apologist for Terrorism and Enemy of Democracy

Alan Dershowitz As a supporter of the two state solution and an opponent of many...

November 11, 2014

Does sociology function as its own religion?

Sociologists want to present themselves as objective scientists of the social order, but when Christian...

November 07, 2014

Conservative Christians still a critical slice of the electorate

Mark Tooley It is often claimed that conservative religious voters, especially white evangelicals, are going...

November 06, 2014

Who or what was Asherah?

Ellen White Who is Asherah? What is asherah? The reference may be to a particular...

November 05, 2014

Is the Bible reliable?

Louis Markos As for Ehrman’s 400,000 variants, Blomberg explains, they are “spread across more than...

November 05, 2014

Has evolutionary biology disproved religion?

William Carroll The traditional pillars of religion that support a view of God as transcendent...

November 05, 2014

Pope Francis, the death penalty, and life imprisonment

Mark Tooley Pope Francis expands on Church opposition to capital punishment.

November 05, 2014

How churches should NOT address social/political issues

John Lomperis Staffers can one day talk about seeing women and children “as children of...

November 05, 2014

The Economist: Inside look at Christianity in China

Christianity is hard to control in China, and getting harder all the time. It is...

November 05, 2014

I am gay and have a gay son, but . . .

Doug Mainwaring For me, same-sex marriage has simply been rendered a non-issue, because I recognize...

November 05, 2014

Can Aramaic be revived?

Why do Arab Israeli Christians lobby for a new identity?

November 04, 2014

Two ways to do theology

Stephen Webb The debate, in other words, is between Schleiermacher and Newman. For Schleiermacher, theologians...

November 04, 2014

Catholic Capitulation on Marriage

RR Reno I’m sure Pius XII would have denied that signing a Concordat with Hitler’s...

November 01, 2014

ISIS Snuffs Out Ancient Christianity

These stories are unpleasant.  But then so were the stories in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

David Gushee’s embrace of gay marriage

Much is being made of evangelical ethicist David Gushee's announcement that he now thinks same-sex...

October 30, 2014

No, grammar doesn’t cause sexism

McWhorter is defending a liberal, universalist view of humanity. Human experience, he argues, is culturally,...

October 27, 2014

Let’s Talk About How Islam Has Been Hijacked

I'm appalled by what is done in the name of my religion.  Yet my American...

October 25, 2014

Transgender? What about transchrons?

Mark Tooley Trying to stride way ahead of the next wave, I’m proposing a new...

October 24, 2014

Religion is key to Middle East conflict

Reuel Marc Gerecht Despite the best efforts of Western or Western-inspired modernizers, everywhere in the...

October 24, 2014

How religion can save the humanities

Only at religious colleges will the humanities find a broad market. It is no accident...

October 24, 2014

What was wrong with worshiping at the “high places”?

“The plurality of shrines inevitably reflected the local multiplicity of Canaanite Baal worship, implying a...

October 23, 2014

Natural law in the public square

Samuel Gregg Certainly, natural law arguments, no matter how well articulated, don’t convince everyone. Engaging...

October 23, 2014

Did Jesus try to start a new religion?

Sometimes it is asserted that Jesus’ emphasis on the “weightier things of the Torah” (Matt...

October 23, 2014

What I saw when I went to the opera

Alan Dershowitz On Monday night I went to the Metropolitan Opera. I went for two...

October 20, 2014

China’s One-Child Policy: Massive Crimes against Women, Supported by the Obama Administration

Rep. Chris Smith Today, in China, rather than being given maternal care, pregnant women without...

October 20, 2014

The Vatican misinterprets Huntington’s “clash of civilizations”

George Weigel There is something very odd about a Holy See whose default positions include...

October 17, 2014

What’s Happening in Houston?

When I first saw the story, I dismissed it as a hoax. The City of...

October 17, 2014

The Problem of Self Loathing at Evangelical Colleges

In my experience, evangelical schools are particularly deft at self-loathing. I say this as someone...

October 17, 2014

How To Fight Supreme Court’s Backing of Same-Sex Marriage

"The courts are one branch of government, and equal to the other two, but not...

October 17, 2014

“I no longer call myself a moderate Muslim”

In one short interview, the two speakers had ensured that: a Zionist conspiracy is in...

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