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Books for a Summer Season — Some Recommended Reading

Serious readers tend to read by season. A worthy book is ripe for the reading in any season, but winter seems to privilege the weightier...Read this essay →
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Rinse Not the Prose: Christopher Hitchens on the King James Version

Why would an ardent atheist care about translations of the Bible, and why would Christians be concerned with what an atheist would think? These are...
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Empire or Cow Town? National Geographic Looks at the Kingdom of David and Solomon

Tel Aviv University archaeologist Israel Finkelstein argues that the kingdom of David and Solomon is a greatly embellished biblical fiction. Jerusalem, he argues, was a...
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On Darwin and Darwinism: A Letter to Professor Giberson

An open letter to Professor Karl Giberson, in answer to his posting, "How Darwin Sustains My Baptist Search for Truth." Dear Professor Giberson: I read...Read this essay →
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Summer Reading — Books Fit for the Season

Readers are a hopeful lot. Ask most serious readers what they intend to read over the next month, and you are likely to hear a...Read this essay →
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Real Enough? — Relics, Gopher Wood, and the Sufficiency of Scripture

Our confidence that the account of the flood and Noah’s ark happened in space, time, and history is grounded in the Bible, not in remnants…Read this essay →
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Hindsight — The Most Newsworthy Events of 2009

The past year has brought both blessings and challenges that have seriously shaped the course of history.  From the election of the first African-American President...Read this essay →
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Moral Clarity and the Fall of the Wall

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Moral Clarity and the Fall of the Wall

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is an important milestone in human history.  The wall, which represents ideas of oppression, cruelty...Read this essay →
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NewsNote: Moral Clarity and the Fall of the Wall

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is an important landmark in human history. That wall, one of history's most heinous symbols...Read this essay →
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Concerns for the Rising Generation

Thomas Friedman has recently written a piece in The New York Times about the three ‘bombs’ that he fears when thinking of the challenges his...Read this essay →
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The Moral Lessons of World War II, 70 Years Later

On the 70th Anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Dr. Mohler discusses the important moral lessons learned from World War II. As nations look...Read this essay →
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Remembering Katrina 4 Years Later

Hurricane Katrina was perhaps the most terrible natural disaster to ever happen in the United States. What were the effects of such a massive storm...Read this essay →
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Tiananmen Square: 20 Years Later

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Martin Luther King Jr.: Taking The Measure Of The Man

An Encore Presentation From 1/16/06Read this essay →
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Tiananmen Square: 20 Years Later

20 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Dr. David Aikman discusses the effects of humanitarian failures, civil rights violations, and moral changes within modern day...Read this essay →
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The Christian Worldview and Fears of a Potential Epidemic

The spread of swine flu in certain parts of the world has sparked widespread media attention and general uneasiness. But should Christians have a distinctly...Read this essay →
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Echoes of Old Heresies Still Among Us — A Visit to Divinity Hall

Just a few hours ago I stood at the very spot where one of the most significant addresses in American history was delivered -- and...Read this essay →
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Commemorating Veterans Day 2008

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I’m Sorry, So Sorry — “False Apology Syndrome”

A physician by profession, Theodore Dalrymple has diagnosed one of the most public ills of our age -- "False Apology Syndrome."  He defines this new...Read this essay →
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I’m Sorry, So Sorry — “False Apology Syndrome”

A physician by profession, Theodore Dalrymple has diagnosed one of the most public ills of our age -- "False Apology Syndrome."  He defines this new...Read this essay →
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“Golda” — An Incredible Story About an Indomitable Power

With Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni poised to become that nation's next Prime Minister, historical parallels to the late Golda Meir are inevitable.  "Golda," as...Read this essay →
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A Kingdom No More

The world order has been so thoroughly transformed over the last century that some of the most powerful nations on earth no longer even exist. ...Read this essay →
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Please . . . Get a New Word

Books on political affairs and current events come regularly and many pack a partisan punch. This is especially true in the intense political season of...Read this essay →
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Please . . . Get a New Word

Books on political affairs and current events come regularly and many pack a partisan punch. This is especially true in the intense political season of...Read this essay →
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Washington — How America Made its Capital City

Fergus M. Bordewich has written what is best described as a biography of Washington, D.C. In Washington: The Making of the American Capital (Amistad Books/HarperCollins),...Read this essay →
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1960 — The Rome Olympics and the Modern Games

The modern Olympic Games are barely a century old, but even within that relatively brief span the games have been transformed. Along the way, notions...Read this essay →
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In Time for the Olympics — Understanding China

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing will put the nation of China on the world stage as never before in modern times. The government...Read this essay →
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Child’s Play? A History

Howard P. Chudacoff has done what someone needed to do -- write a history of children's play.  In Children at Play: An American History, Chudacoff,...Read this essay →
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“One Word of Truth Will Outweigh the Whole World” — The Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." Alexander Solzhenitsyn cited that Russian proverb in his 1970 acceptance speech as he was awarded the...Read this essay →
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