In an interview with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is considering a presidential run as a foreign policy war hawk, George Will sums up what went wrong with Hillary Clinton’s diplomacy in Libya and gives us a useful term: “progressive imperialism.” (more…)
In the course of writing a searching new book entitled The Road to Character, New York Times columnist David Brooks decided that you can’t really think about moral ideas very well without the vocabulary that religions bring, even if you don’t believe them. So he
A leading psychologist is saying that pornography and video games are crippling young men in their ability to have relate to women and to the real world outside themselves. Philip Zombardo goes so far as to say that excessive use of porn and gaming is
Europeans and Americans are pouring into Syria, Iraq, and other countries to join ISIS, where they are becoming some of the bloodiest and most fanatical fighters. A big percentage of these volunteers are converts to Islam, including Elton Simpson who was killed in the attack
Chuck Queen, a progressive Baptist, says that “Jesus is not the same as Christ.” The historical Jesus is one thing, but “Christ” is cosmic, embracing non-Christians as well as Christians. This gives us a lucid glimpse into liberal theology, how they can use the historical-critical
Now that the truths that were foundational to the American republic–that there is a Creator who is the basis for human equality and rights that transcend the state–are no longer self-evident, we are starting to see a rethinking of everything America used to stand for.
Despite the polls, despite the media, and despite the pundits that were already analyzing Great Britain’s political shift leftward, the Conservative Party won a decisive victory in the national elections on Friday. With the Tories winning a definite majority of the seats in Parliament–against all
A Baptist minister has stirred controversy within his tradition by baptizing an infant. Yet it has become a common practice to baptize children 5 years old, or even younger. This all seems to be in the context of reconsidering what baptism is, that it is
OK, what I am about to tell you is gross, even horrific. And (trigger warning to arachnophobes, who had better not click through to the jump) it has to do with spiders. And yet, there is what Yeats called a terrible beauty here. And, for
The Encyclopedia of Christian Education has been released today, a three-volume reference book packed with information about the influence of Christianity on education as a whole, as well as the various ways Christians have taught the faith. I wrote the entries for the Liberal Arts,
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