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January 2013

January 20, 2013

Our absurd fear of fat

If the government were to redefine normal weight as one that doesn’t increase the risk...

January 18, 2013

Environmental conservatism

Roger Scruton argues that conservatism is a better home for good environmental policy than liberalism....

January 18, 2013

Why are there no humanist funerals?

Peter Berger Yes, of course a religious community can offer comfort of the same kind...

January 17, 2013

Seeking the Peace of Jerusalem—or a Piece of Jerusalem?

There is no end of controversy about Jerusalem, old and new. Archeology has become a...

January 15, 2013

Israel’s jihad is mine

While most Muslims laud Hamas and scorn Israel, for me, an observing Muslim, Israel’s war...

January 15, 2013

Christian registrar loses European court case

Lillian Ladele, a Christian registrar who was pushed out of her job because of her...

January 14, 2013

Who’s filling America’s church pews

In Puritan New England, Protestant and Catholic churches are declining while evangelical and Pentecostal groups...

January 14, 2013

Lessons from France on Defending Marriage

Unlikely characters, including gay men, are leading the French people in protest against redefining marriage....

January 10, 2013

Let’s Talk About Just War

In a country where we oscillate between the extremes of realism and pacifism, learning the...

January 09, 2013

Bringing Marx into the Abortion Debate

Two points can best persuade young people about abortion: our need for laws that protect...

January 04, 2013

Same-Sex Marriage and Social Change: Exceeding the Speed of Thought

Matthew Franck Michael Klarman’s history of the push for same-sex marriage shows just how recently...

January 04, 2013

Are Christian leaders willfully ignoring Muslim persecution of Christians?

Dexter Van Zile New English Review A troubling reality is that Christian intellectuals, theologians and...

January 03, 2013

Are you rude to fools?

David Brooks This sounds fine in the abstract, but when you actually witness somebody in...

January 02, 2013

A Jewish doctrine of original sin

Soloveitchik acknowledges the doctrine of Original Sin, and incorporates it at length into his philosophy...

January 02, 2013

The most incisive response yet to Newtown

Any honest analysis of the Newtown tragedy must address the social problems caused by divorce,...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Why Men Aren’t Man Enough to Handle Web Porn

Pornography, like alcohol and drugs, weakens our ability to endure the kinds of suffering that...

December 28, 2012

Do we need a Special Ethics for the Last Days?

Thomas Johnson God can repeal or at least postpone the proclaimed judgment if people repent....

December 27, 2012

Calvinism and Jesus’Judaism

In the darkest hours of the Holocaust, the safest place for Jews in occupied Europe...

December 21, 2012

NY Times: German Austerity’s Lutheran Core

How little has changed in 500 years. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, a born-and-baptized daughter...

December 21, 2012

The Paradox of American Religion–Peter Berger

The role of religion in the United States is characterized by a paradox. On the...

December 21, 2012

What will American Christianity look like in 50 years?

I was asked this in an online forum, and my answer got too long to...

December 21, 2012

It’s a Wonderful Country: Pottersville or Bedford Falls?

In the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the humane society of Bedford Falls...

December 20, 2012

Ross Douthat at the NYT: More Babies, Please

IN the eternally recurring debates about whether some rival great power will knock the United...

December 17, 2012

The Connecticut school shootings, Jonathan Edwards, and the failure of our churches

The killing of young children at their school will be linked by many pundits to...

December 12, 2012

Do the unborn feel pain? Are they persons?

Science can and should help determine sound public policy on matters that involve basic human...

December 05, 2012

Why Darwinist Materialism is Wrong

Alvin Plantinga ACCORDING TO a semi-established consensus among the intellectual elite in the West, there...

December 03, 2012

I’m Socially Conservative, in College, and Need a Party

Students across the country have been pushing back against liberal dominance, but we cannot solve...

December 01, 2012

The Folly of Scientism

When I decided on a scientific career, one of the things that appealed to me...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Aquinas: How He Might Help Evangelicals

For generations evangelicals have been told to steer clear of Thomas Aquinas because he supposedly...

November 28, 2012

Stephen Mosher to speak at Roanoke College Tues. nite, December 4

China's Holocaust: 400 Million Dead in One-Child Policy China's One-Child Policy is an effective but...

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