Newsweek interviews Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone reporter who broke the story quoting our top military brass in Afghanistan dissing the president and his staff, asking how in the world he got them to open up like they did. You reported a lot of sentiments
America’s top commander and his staff in Afghanistan are in big trouble for their disrespectful remarks about their civilian bosses that they made to a reporter from Rolling Stone: The top U.S. general in Afghanistan is headed to Washington to apologize for a magazine profile
The conventional view in academia today is that sex is biological, but gender is a cultural construction. That is, roles that are attached to being male or female are nothing more than the impositions of culture. Well, I just observed my 15-month-old granddaughter picking up
We discussed this book and this issue a while back, but a piece in USA Today by Rev. Henry G. Brinton–after a rather strained comparison with online social media–focuses on the problem introverts have with small groups in church, which have become ubiquitous in churches
Fortune Magazine has an exclusive story about a project among the nation’s billionaires. Here is an excerpt: Just over a year ago, in May 2009, word leaked to the press that the two richest men in America, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, had organized and
Pretend that one of the megabillionaires mentioned above lived in your community. To fulfill the pledge, he gave every church in your community a billion dollars. What could your church do with that much money? If all the churches in your community had that kind
The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA championship. Could somebody explain this?: Violence erupted within 30 minutes of the game's end as rowdy fans poured out of area bars and, shortly after, the 19,000 ticket-holders inside Staples began to emerge. Phalanxes of LAPD officers successfully
Did you realize that one state in the union still requires an actual reason to get a divorce, as opposed to the no-fault divorces practiced everywhere else? That state is liberal, progressive, sophisticated New York. But now that is about to change. Notice how New
Much of contemporary Christianity has embraced the commercial culture, from church growth marketing and consumerism to the transformation of Christian language and imagery into tacky knick-knacks to buy and sell. Now the Hindus are doing it. Nestled between the wedding sari boutiques and hipster jean
Researchers Karen Clark and Elizabeth Marquardt have studied the grown children whose fathers were anonymous sperm donors. It’s a sad tale: Our study, released by the Commission on Parenthood’s Future last week, focused on how young-adult donor offspring—and comparison samples of young adults who were
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