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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

A senior cleric of the Church of England wants his church to apologize to Charles Darwin in time for the observance of the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth next year. The Rev. Dr. Malcolm Brown, Director of Mission and Public Affairs for the church, made his case in an article entitled, “Good Religion Needs Good…

Monday, September 15, 2008

Framing a Loving–and Honest–Response to Ray Boltz

When best-selling Christian vocalist Ray Boltz recently announced his homosexuality, divorcing his wife of 33 years, Christians everywhere took notice. However, Boltz’s own experience is a painful reminder not only of the sexual confusion of our day, but of how poorly our churches have often ministered to those struggling with homosexual inclinations. On today’s program,…

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Is a ‘Demographic Winter’ Coming?

Demographers and sociologists have for several years now noted the startling decline of fertility rates not only in Europe, but across the globe. However, few Americans have paused to consider the implications of such a widespread trend. A new documentary, Demographic Winter, does a masterful job of explaining the data, painting an alerting picture of…

Monday, September 8, 2008

A Private Conviction About Murder?

Speaking Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for Vice President, made headlines by stating that he accepts “as a matter of faith” that human life begins at conception, but he would not impose that view on others as a matter of law.
Sen. Biden’s statement is similar in form to…

“Abortion is as American as Apple Pie” — The Culture of Death Finds a Voice

Friday, January 20, 2012

Abortion is now one of America’s most common surgical procedures performed on adults. As many as one out of three women will have at least one abortion. In some American neighborhoods, the number of abortions far exceeds the number of live births.

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Learning from Christopher Hitchens: Lessons Evangelicals Must Not Miss

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The death of Christopher Hitchens on December 15 was not unexpected, and that seemed only to add to the tragedy. His fight against cancer had been lived, like almost every other aspect of his colorful life, in full public view. He had told numerous interviewers that he wanted to die in an active, not a passive sense. Then again, there may never have been a truly passive moment in Christopher Hitchens’ life.

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President Obama and Same-Sex Marriage — The Dance Continues

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Some predictions are rather safe to make. 2012 is almost certain to be a determinative year on the issue of same-sex marriage. Multiple courts appear poised to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] and, even more urgently, the appeal on California’s Proposition 8 at the Ninth Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals will set up a certain appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. Given the facts of this case and the significance of the nation’s most populous state, the Supreme Court is almost certain to take the case. This sets the stage for the courts to make some determinative statement on same-sex marriage within the next several months — a decision that will go a long way toward setting the direction of the larger culture.

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