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February 2012

February 08, 2012

Ayaan Hirsi Ali:The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World

We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants...

February 06, 2012

Jonathan Edwards and the Future of Global Christianity: Friday nite at Roanoke College

On Friday, February 10, Michael McClymond (St. Louis University) will speak on “Jonathan Edwards and...

February 06, 2012

Matt Franck’s testimony to the NJ Legislature against same-sex marriage

I applaud Governor Christie’s stated intent to veto this bill if it reaches his desk,...

February 06, 2012

Personally Opposed, but Sleeping with the Enemy

If you were truly opposed to something, then you would try to defeat it, especially...

February 03, 2012

Paul Auster Responds After Turkish Prime Minister Calls Him ‘an Ignorant Man’

The publication in Turkey of a new work by Paul Auster — even before it...

February 02, 2012

Conservative Poverty Fighting

A sound political philosophy would hold that the state should be concerned about the welfare...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

16 scientists: No compelling argmuent for drastic actions on global warming

Sixteen scientists took to the pages of the Wall Street JournalFriday to argue that there...

January 27, 2012

The Role of Sympathy and Trust in American Politics

This topic is on my mind in part because of the publication of an excellent...

January 27, 2012

Peter Berger on six decades of studying worldwide religion

Let me first take a matter where I very much changed my mind, and in...

January 26, 2012

Room for the Jews, Copts in the new Egypt?

The worldview of The Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists and other religious extremists present a clear and...

January 26, 2012

Was God unjust to harden Pharaoh’s heart?

[I find these Jewish answers to resonate with similar answers in Jonathan Edwards's writings.] The...

January 25, 2012

Keeping Mom, Dad, and Baby: Social Conservatism and the Republican Platform

A familiar metaphor to describe the Republican coalition is the “three-legged stool,” where each leg...

January 24, 2012

Disability: A Thread for Weaving Joy

by Charles J. Chaput January 24, 2012 While some people resent the imperfection, the inconvenience,...

January 23, 2012

The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe

It is almost too much to contemplate: the prospect that we are living in the...

January 19, 2012

Leonard Pitts, Rick Santorum, and same-sex marriage

It's pretty bad when a writer of Leonard Pitts' caliber — a Pulitzer Prize winner,...

January 18, 2012

The gap between resistance and governance in Gaza

Note: The author of this article was attacked this week by masked intruders and stabbed...

January 17, 2012

America the Biblical

The Greeks did not invent equality. Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, and the gang famously believed that...

January 16, 2012

Hannah Arendt and the Origins of Israelophobia

In 1924, at 18, Arendt went to study philosophy at the University of Marburg, where...

January 14, 2012

Would you like to see Israel and Jordan?

St. John Study Tour Of Israel-Jordan Pastor Mark Graham and I are leading a 12-day...

January 13, 2012

Is it moral to kill a nuclear scientist?

Physics is an unhealthy line of work in today’s Iran. A few days ago, 32-year-old...

January 13, 2012

This time the Court got it just right

Every now and then, the Supreme Court surprises its critics by getting something absolutely, completely...

January 12, 2012

Hosannah for Hosannah-Tabor! But what comes next?

There may be a straw in the wind in yesterday’s ruling, with respect to the...

January 12, 2012

The bad Samaritan

A third interpretation sometimes heard is the related claim that the priest and the Levite...

January 12, 2012

Bullying and Civil Rights

OCR’s sweeping prohibition of “harassment” and “bullying” carries serious First Amendment implications. May a student...

January 11, 2012

Three exciting events at Roanoke College this semester

Friday, February 10 @ 7:30 p.m., Antrim Chapel. "Jonathan Edwards and the Future of Global...

January 11, 2012

Why is pork beyond the pale in Torah?

I was, for many years, an imperfect atheist. After decades in Chabad and other haredi...

January 11, 2012

Purpose, Palliative Care, and Respect for Human Life

The Massachusetts Medical Society recently voted to affirm its opposition to physician-assisted suicide. This vote...

January 10, 2012

Public Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage

For a number of years, there has been a contentious public debate in the United...

January 09, 2012

Greg Boyd takes the pacifist and Marcionite route

Although the “Old Testament God” is also merciful and loving, He also has an uncharacteristic...

January 07, 2012

Preaching the Gospel in the Hermit Kingdom

Despite the perception of North Korea as a country hermetically sealed to the outside --...

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