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August 2013

August 15, 2013

Jean Bethke Elshtain: Gifted Thinker and Courageous Woman

She was among the last cohort of Americans to be struck by polio. She limped...

August 15, 2013

Church Leaders Condemn Israel, but not Syria, Showing Clear Double Standard

Why is it that American religious leaders who have gotten so worked up about the...

August 13, 2013

Will all be saved?

Gerald R. McDermott Will everyone one day be saved? Is hell only temporary, if it...

August 12, 2013

What Jesus Wasn’t: Zealot–or, Why Reza Aslan is Ridiculously Wrong

Within an hour of its online debut, the number of viewers of Reza Aslan’s now...

August 12, 2013

A “Che Guevara Jesus” for Evangelicals?

Mark Tooley Recently the new co-head of Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA) hailed a “Che...

August 09, 2013

Collaborative Reproduction and the Things We Should Not Do

The city council of Washington, DC should consider the psychological damage to children that would...

August 08, 2013

Get ready for the throuples

Ryan Anderson Merriam-Webster is going to have to update the next edition of its dictionary,...

August 08, 2013

Massive Crusader hospital uncovered in Old City

Knights Hospitallers cared for Christian pilgrims at the site; Jewish patients received kosher food.

August 05, 2013

A Protestant defends the Catholic Church

“Many of the principles laid out in the CST are sound principles that any Christian...

August 04, 2013

What Are the Rights of Donor-Conceived People?

Third party reproduction corrupts the parent-child relationship and disrespects the humanity of donor-conceived people. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/08/10511/?utm_source=RTA+Newman+Rights+Donor-Conceived&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email

August 02, 2013

Lutherans: the fastest decline ever

Robert Benne The results have been devastating. Rather than being exceptional in their promise for...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Is Reza Aslan Off the Hook?

It looks like I really stirred things up yesterday with my post “Reza Aslan Misrepresents...

July 31, 2013

Reza Aslan Misrepresents His Scholarly Credentials

None of these degrees is in history, so Aslan’s repeated claims that he has “a...

July 29, 2013

My Isl@m’s Quest for Truth

A young Muslim author learns to seek the truth about God through questioning instead of...

July 25, 2013

Do Elephants Have Souls?

One of the major clues that elephants have something we would recognize as inner lives...

July 25, 2013

Homosexuality is not biologically determined

What does the science say about sexual orientation? While some people may display signs of...

July 24, 2013

Are there soul-mates arranged by God? A fascinating discussion among the rabbis

In colloquial Jewish vernacular, the description "bashert" essentially means "from God" or the consequence of...

July 23, 2013

Five Myths About Pope Francis

He has been called an “improv pope,” a pope of many surprises, but the biggest...

July 23, 2013

Glendon: We have misunderstood religious freedom and separation of church and state

The freedom-protecting and flourishing-enabling distinction between religious and political authority has long and rightly been...

July 22, 2013

America remains as religious as you thought

You may have read about the rise in the number of Americans who claim no...

July 16, 2013

One of our best constitutional experts on the week that was

Mark Twain said of Wagner’s music that, “it isn’t as bad as it sounds.” But...

July 16, 2013

A Brief History of Sex Ed: How We Reached Today’s Madness

Today’s sex ed curricula are based on the widely-accepted teachings of depraved human beings. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/07/10408/?utm_source=RTA+Grossman+Sex+Ed&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email

July 15, 2013

Religion and public schools: the New York Times vs the First Amendment

Prohibiting religious schools from using public facilities would not protect religious freedom; it would encourage...

July 15, 2013

We’ve just begun to fight! Gay marriage, law, culture, and faith

Ryan Anderson On almost every campus I visited, including elite law schools like Stanford and...

July 14, 2013

Uwe on Amazon!

Almost half a century ago, a young reporter from Germany arrived in still-glamorous Saigon to...

July 14, 2013

Justice Kennedy: Obama was a bigot

By RYAN T. ANDERSON The Heritage Foundation Fourteen months ago, President Obama was a bigot....

July 12, 2013

Martha Nussbaum’s Toleration of the Intolerant

Nussbaum often writes as if the tension between revealed religion (especially Islam) and liberal democracy...

July 12, 2013

Why Americans Don’t Think God Talk is Weird

Peter Berger Robert Wuthnow says modern believers maintain a creative tension between the worldviews of...

July 12, 2013

Who is racist?

I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race...

July 11, 2013

Men and Women Often Expect Different Things When They Move In Together

W. Bradford Wilcox A new study suggests that men are more likely than women to...

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