The Obama administration has announced its own authorization of what have been known as “faith-based” funding programs, and in so doing it dodged — at least for now — the most controversial question related to this funding.  Can faith-based organizations receive this funding and maintain their own convictions in hiring decisions?

I was pleased to talk to my Salem Radio colleague Hugh Hewitt on his radio program on February 2, 2009.  Hugh is a great conversationalist and interviewer, whose radio show is always truly interesting.  He is an attorney, law professor, commentator, and national radio host.  Here is a transcript of that conversation, courtesy of the Hugh Hewitt Show and Townhall.com.

Facebook marked its fifth anniversary on February 5, setting a milestone for social networking as a cultural phenomenon.  Just five years ago Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched the site and service.  Just as Facebook celebrated its fifth anniversary, it passed rival MySpace in registrations.

My convocation address delivered Tuesday at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was taken from Acts 1:1-8 and the Great Commission as found there.  The title of the address, “Memphis, Miami, Milan, and Mumbai: Ministry Somewhere, Anywhere, Everywhere” refers to four cities taken as paradigms for Great Commission ministry today.  Our task is to raise up a generation ready for effective and faithful ministry in all of these diverse cities — and the millions more they represent.  Listen here.

The contemporary clash of worldviews comes immediately into view with controversies over children, contraception, abortion, and now the environment.  A recent controversy in Great Britain makes this point all too clear.