The Vatican has denied that the Pope said what journalist Eugenio Scalifari ascribed to him, that Jesus was not God during His incarnation, but became God after His death. This view would violate orthodox Christology, but it does have affinity with the distinction in liberal theology between the "Jesus of History" and the "Christ of Faith."
As companies from the NBA to Apple Computer do whatever it takes to placate China, Americans are being subjected to Chinese censorship, restrictions, and state control.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke says that churches that oppose same-sex marriage should lose their tax exemption. And his idea has some traction.
The Kurds have been America's most steadfast allies--fighting side by side in Iraq, and defeating ISIS on our behalf. But we have withdrawn our military advisors embedded with the Kurds in Syria to allow Turkey to launch a massive attack on their ethnic enemy. Why have we done this?
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize went to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiye Ahmed Ali, an evangelical Christian.
Sunday is Pastor Appreciation Day, and October is Pastor Appreciation Month. We should indeed appreciate our pastors and express that appreciation to them. They are working night and day to bring us to eternal life. And to mark the occasion, two free books.
Pope Francis is quoted as having denied the central tenet of Christianity: the deity of Christ. According to a journalist, the Pope told him, "Jesus of Nazareth, once having become a man, was, though a man of exceptional virtues, not at all a God.'"
When Brandt Jean in that Dallas courtroom forgave the woman who killed his brother, he was not just being generous. He was witnessing to this killer, sharing Christ's hard-won forgiveness, which poured over into his own ability to forgive. He was manifesting God grace.
Mary Eberstadt, one of our most perceptive cultural analysts, shows how weakened family connections have resulted in children growing up without a sense of identity, which, in turn, has given us identity politics.
Classic horror tales, like Dracula, depict good vs. evil. But today's horror genre tends to follow H. P. Lovecraft, for whom the fundamental reality is only evil. John Ehrett relates this nihilism to post-liberalism, which sees all power and authority as arbitrary and oppressive, and which replaces the conflict of good vs. evil with the conflict of oppression vs. freedom. This is in contrast to the Christian worldview of a righteous God battling the evil that seeks to negate His fundamentally good creation.
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