President Obama seems to think so. At the National Prayer Breakfast a few days ago he said, “Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.” Was he right? (more…) Read more

We should make public policy and encourage social norms that reflect the truth about the human person and sexuality, not obfuscate the truth about such matters and sow the seeds of sexual confusion in future generations for years to come. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/02/14305/ Read more

Teens struggling with their sexual identity may seem to have more options than they did in the 1980s—but one important option is increasingly denied to them. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/02/14388/   Read more

Exaggerated, worst-case claims result in bad policy and they ignore a wealth of encouraging data. http://www.wsj.com/articles/bjorn-lomborg-the-alarming-thing-about-climate-alarmism-1422832462 Read more

Take it from the adult child of a loving gay parent: redefining marriage promotes a family structure in which children suffer. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/02/14370/ Read more

I decided to speak out mainly because, as our film Eggsploitation states over and over, there are way too many dirty little secrets in the infertility industry. These dirty little secrets exist in large part because we simply do not track, monitor, or follow up with the young women who “donate” their eggs. As one expert says in our film, “once they [the clinicians] are done with her [the egg donor], she’s gone.” http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/01/14353/ Read more

People throw themselves into campaigns of murder and suicide because they have come under the influence of malign doctrinal systems, which appear to address the most profound and pressing of human problems—and do so by openly rebelling against the gravest of moral considerations. Doctrines of this sort render their adepts mad, not in a clinical sense but in an everyday sense. And the power to drive people mad comes precisely from the profundity, or the seeming profundity—which is what everyone... Read more

Although the land of Israel has universal appeal, most Christians during the last two millennia have believed that the land no longer has any theological importance. According to the common storyline, God stopped exercising special care for Jews and their land upon the advent of the Christian church, which became the New Israel. http://philosproject.org/christians-still-think-land-israel-important-theologically/ Read more

Recently a minister suggested to me that true Christian faith has nothing to do with believing certain doctrines. It is more, he suggested, a matter of feeling love for Jesus and serving the unfortunate. While it is true that a Christian is to love Jesus and serve others, I find this rejection of doctrine impossible to square with Jesus and the early church.  All of Jesus’ teachings presume doctrine.  He says that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life... Read more

True confessions. My wife and I used it for a short time when we were told by our physician, as young about-to-be married evangelicals at age 23, that if we didn’t want to have a baby in our first year, the best and safest route was the Pill. When we decided we wanted to start our family, Jean went off it some time before the end of that first year. No one told us about Natural Family Planning (NFP), except... Read more