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January 2015

January 20, 2015

Is church really necessary?

I have been troubled for a long time by the Lone Ranger Christian mentality of...

January 19, 2015

Are persecuted believers in the Middle East really Christians?

I remember, as a Catholic boy, thinking that Protestants were not true Christians. Then, when...

January 17, 2015

While we were grieving Paris . . .

. . . even more were being massacred in northern Nigeria. Boko Haram was systematically...

January 15, 2015

Is higher education worth it?

All is not well in American colleges and universities. No doubt you already know this. ...

January 14, 2015

Teach Your Children: Assisted Suicide and My Family

No one wants pain. But the debate about assisted suicide is not just about those...

January 12, 2015

Is it possible for an evangelical to have a high view of the church?

Rhys S. Bezzant thinks so. Bezzant is an Anglican priest and scholar whose recent book...

January 11, 2015

Would Muhammad have approved of the Saudis giving 1000 lashes to Raif?

"Our Prophet," Malik said, "would have been crystal clear and unequivocal in condemning [the Charlie...

January 10, 2015

After Paris, what to think about radical Islam

After the Paris attacks, what are we to think? Is all Islam evil? Do all...

January 09, 2015

What parents of transgender kids need to know

As a former child transgender, my heart goes out to parents whose boy says, “I’m...

January 08, 2015

Christians in the Holy Land: Don’t Call Us Arabs

The Arameans say they came to the Holy Land before the Arabs, and that Israel...

January 06, 2015

Muslim president of Egypt calls for revolution in Islam

Something quite extraordinary took place last week. President Sisi of Egypt called for a theological...

January 03, 2015

Trouble In Transtopia: Murmurs Of Sex Change Regret

It's all been a terrible misadventure. I've never been a woman, just Alan . ....

January 03, 2015

Scientific Evidence Debunks the Existence of a ‘Gay Gene’

Eight major studies of identical twins in Australia, the U.S., and Scandinavia during the last...

January 03, 2015

What made John Updike run?

Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and scores of others, John Updike (1932 – 2009) is...

January 01, 2015

The only creatures who disobey God

Yesterday I took a glorious walk with my wife on one of the ridges of...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

A Teacher’s Guide to Discussing Religion in the Classroom

While I was attending a professional development workshop for nearly two-hundred teachers several weeks ago,...

December 29, 2014

Christians are being cleansed from every place in the Middle East but one

Within this chaos, only one island of sanity can be found where the Christians are...

December 27, 2014

Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God

WSJ: Eric Metaxas In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead?...

December 22, 2014

Are evangelicals better than traditional Catholics on sex and marriage?

This is an important analysis by a leading traditional Catholic intellectual (whose book Debating Gay...

December 20, 2014

Learning there’s no Santa taught me to believe

Training wheels for Jesus. Rich Cohen (WSJ) I used to hang around the mall and...

December 20, 2014

God isn’t dead in Gotham

WSJ: Thousands pack the services of the evangelical Redeemer Presbyterian Church, most of them single...

December 19, 2014

I talked to an angel

After being given a little drug, I was feeling relaxed. My surgery was about 30...

December 19, 2014

Why we should welcome the tacky at Christmas

Jody Bottum Christmas isn’t tasteful, isn’t simple, isn’t clean, isn’t elegant. Give me the tacky...

December 17, 2014

What pro-marriage small businesses can do

One option for pro-marriage business owners: obey the law and serve gay weddings, but make...

December 16, 2014

Two intellectual lovers who gave up their love for Christ

While visiting the town of Walsingham, however, a procession of the Blessed Sacrament passed them...

December 15, 2014

Catholic Higher Education in Ruins

Robert Oscar Lopez The dream of a sex-positive socialist Catholicism based on Marx and liberation...

December 13, 2014

Christmas and its Jewish origins

Christians typically say we were saved by Christ’s death. But the apostle Paul does not....

December 13, 2014

Unfree speech on campus

WSJ Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky famously postulated that the test of a free society is...

December 11, 2014

Islam’s new war on Christians: a new analysis

Victor David Hanson People see Muslims ravaging and killing as merely an extended bad hair...

December 10, 2014

Seven Things I Wish My Pastor Knew About My Homosexuality

May I make two requests? Love me, but remember that you cannot be more merciful...

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