I was searching through google groups for old postings I made on the Usenet back in my college days, and found some postings I had…
I just found this NARTH review of a well-written, balanced (if not liberal) article from Social Work Today entitled Reparative Therapy: What’s Broken? While the…
Today, I seem to have run into a couple of articles on homosexuality that I want to discuss. First, in Words That Need to Become…
“I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist,” written by apologetic gurus Norman Geisler and Frank Turek, is everything I expected and more. It…
An exerpt from MEMRI TV. Poor girl.
In what may become a semi-regular series, I present to you the strange and unusual from the world of faith – the Remarkable Realm of…
Honestly, it really doesn’t matter where I was or what I thought five year ago today. I wasn’t in New York City or Washington DC.…
I saw this great program on Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (PBS), discussing a church in Chicago that links modern black xianity to Christians from the…
If your boss gave you a 20% job approval rating, would you get a raise? If the people that hired you thought you were only…
With his new movie, War of the Worlds, coming out later this summer, Tom Cruise has been making the publicity rounds. While this isn’t new…
The claim that abortions have increased under President Bush has been bandied about since right before the November election when a self proclaimed “consistently pro-lfe”…
Before Sam has a chance to tie me and every other Christian to the pastor who put up “The Koran needs to be flushed” on…
In this age of partisan bickering, I think we can all agree that Frosted Flakes are awesome and the world has lost an icon with…
The following quote sums up one of the best arguments made for changing the filibuster rule: This Congress is not obliged to be bound by…
What’s new about that? Unfortunately not much. As the filibuster debate reaches a climax, most Americans are yawning according to Christian Science Monitor.
The New York Times has been running a series on class in America called Class Matters. This past week, they ran a very interesting article…
Townhall.com has a very good article on why Islam is considered bad religion by much of the west – just look at the behavior of…
I have been harping on this for years, that yoga is one of my favorite spiritual disciplines (despite its Hindu origins). Now Christianity Today seems…
First Things, the premier quarterly journal of Judeo-Christian political thought, has an excellent article (from 1996, but still totally relevant) on what’s wrong with conservative…
Today’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross features two interviews from opposite sides of this issue (audio should be posted by 3PM EST). The first half…
Often times in debates and discourse over hotly divided issues the oft-used, seldom supported slippery slope argument rears its head. It is common knowledge to…
When I was in elementary school, I was a good kid. I listened in class. I did my homework. The teachers liked having me in…
What happens when you get New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and former Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong together – not much of consequence.
Business Week is featuring Evangelicals on the cover of their latest magazine with a story on mega-churches and the Evangelical movement called Earthly Empires. The…