I was asked this in an online forum, and my answer got too long to manage. Here’s my infallible prediction. http://theaquilareport.com/what-will-american-christianity-look-like-in-50-years/ Read more

In the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the humane society of Bedford Falls is built on conservative principles, not contemporary liberal ones. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/12/7428/?utm_source=GMS+Holloway+It%27s+a+Wonderful+Life&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

IN the eternally recurring debates about whether some rival great power will knock the United States off its global perch, there has always been one excellent reason to bet on a second American century: We have more babies than the competition. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-birthrate-and-americas-future.html?_r=0 Read more

The killing of young children at their school will be linked by many pundits to the availability of guns. Still others will blame the violent act on some pathology or childhood trauma. Some may even blame the Hollywood culture with its disregard for humanity, on which human bodies are seen being dissected nightly on network TV. Virtually no one will call what occurred in Newtown an act of evil. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/newtown-carnage-blame-church-not-god-or-guns/#UDXLZSUlzMIRBl1b.99   Read more

Science can and should help determine sound public policy on matters that involve basic human rights. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/12/7300/ Read more

Alvin Plantinga ACCORDING TO a semi-established consensus among the intellectual elite in the West, there is no such person as God or any other supernatural being. Life on our planet arose by way of ill-understood but completely naturalistic processes involving only the working of natural law. Given life, natural selection has taken over, and produced all the enormous variety that we find in the living world. Human beings, like the rest of the world, are material objects through and through;... Read more

Students across the country have been pushing back against liberal dominance, but we cannot solve the problem on our own. We need the full support of our party and conservative allies. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/12/7254/?utm_source=RTA+Bekebrede+College+Conservative&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

When I decided on a scientific career, one of the things that appealed to me about science was the modesty of its practitioners. The typical scientist seemed to be a person who knew one small corner of the natural world and knew it very well, better than most other human beings living and better even than most who had ever lived. But outside of their circumscribed areas of expertise, scientists would hesitate to express an authoritative opinion. This attitude was... Read more

For generations evangelicals have been told to steer clear of Thomas Aquinas because he supposedly was the principal progenitor of the false teaching of salvation by works that permeates Catholicism. Since Luther rightly told us that all of Christian doctrine stands or falls with the proper interpretation of justification, and Aquinas led the Catholic Church to embrace precisely the opposite of true justification, the discerning evangelical should renounce Thomas and all his works. http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2012/11/07/aquinas-how-he-might-help-evangelicals/ Read more

China’s Holocaust: 400 Million Dead in One-Child Policy China’s One-Child Policy is an effective but controversial method of population control, particularly due to forced abortions. Come hear Steve Mosher of the Population Research Institute discuss the moral and physical implications of this policy. 7:00 PM Dec 4, 2012 @ Massengill Auditorium, Roanoke College. Sponsored by Students for Life at Roanoke College. Steven W. Mosher is a social scientist and writer who publishes books and essays on matters dealing with China.... Read more