News out of Great Britain indicates that Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world’s most famous living atheist, is setting up a summer camp intended to help children and teenagers adopt atheism. As The Times [London] reports: “Give Richard Dawkins a child for a week’s summer camp and he will try to give you an atheist for life.”

In 1971, just six years after being invited to teach New Testament and preaching at the Graduate Seminary of Phillips University, Fred Craddock put his thoughts on preaching into a book. That book, As One Without Authority, launched something of a revolution in preaching. Craddock proposed that preaching was on trial in the contemporary church, and that it was fast becoming an anachronism.

Election cycles serve to confuse as well as to reveal.  Reading voting patterns is not quite like reading a CAT-scan, but something does appear to be happening among some parts of the electorate that had been solidly pro-life in voting patterns.

I am so glad that Issues, Etc. is back on the air [listen here].  These Lutheran brothers put out one of the most consistently thoughtful shows on Christian radio.  Based in St. Louis, they cover the waterfront of contemporary theological issues.  I was glad to join them recently for a discussion about my new book, Atheism Remix.

I was highly honored by the opportunity to speak to the New Attitude 2008 conference. It was so encouraging to see thousands of committed Christian young people at that event, and to be with Joshua Harris (the visionary who birthed New Attitude), C. J. Mahaney, Mark Dever, John Piper, and other speakers.

The decision against same-sex marriage handed down July 6 by the New York Court of Appeals (that state’s highest court) continues to send shock waves across the nation. The first wave of media coverage focused on the fact that the court found no basic constitutional right to same-sex marriage and declared that any change in the state’s marital law would have to come from the legislative branch.