Freakanomics radio just published a fascinating interview entitled The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage. Melissa Kearney, professor of economics at…
We’ve tried to find activities my 11-year-old boy can enjoy, including sports and music of many types, but the one thing he wants to do…
As a pastor, I have sought to understand other faiths, in part, to learn, and in part, to discover how I could understand others and…
With the appointment of Betsy DeVoss to Education Secretary, lots of people are concerned that her prior commitment to charter schooling and her potential lack of…
This week’s violence at Berkeley would seem to support the conservative claim that the truly violent political group in America is not gun-toting conservatives, but…
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also…
Author and podcaster Jeff Goins has a great productivity podcast, and a while back he discussed the five drafts or stages your writing goes through.…
In this morning’s episode (231) of The Andrew Klavan Show, Klavan had a particularly witty opening monologue, poking fun at Dylan Roof, Chuck Shumer, Islamic media…
As a former biochemist and evolutionary skeptic, I am not surprised at how often I see news headlines saying things like “new discovery forces scientists…
To be intelligent contributors to our society, we muse select reputable news sources inside and OUTSIDE of our normal biases. Not only does this make us…
As a moderate conservative, I have a love/hate relationship with center left news sources like NPR and Slate.com. They often put out thoughtful pieces, but…
I want to suggest a shift in mindset that can move us from alienation and grief to hope and action. I stress mindset, because, as…
As yet another high profile evangelical departs from centuries of orthodoxy on the issue, we have to ask ourselves, what is happening, and should we…
As per the neato animation below, modern science thinks all living dogs came from one ancestor, the grey wolf. This is, of course, congruent with…
Should pluralism an important value for religious conservatives? And if so, why? In a really thought provoking interview with the author of Confident Pluralism: Surviving and…
As Albert Mohler intoned in his recent Washington Post article, Donald Trump has created an excruciating moment for evangelicals. While liberals who have flouted sexual…
I am not an apologist for Trump, and I don’t like him actually. But the arguments above are not meant to justify his candidacy, but…
In Part 1, I covered Dr. Daniel Kirk’s pro-gay theology. In this concluding article, we cover the pro-hetero theology of Dr. Robert Gagnon, and draw some…
This debate is probably one of the more advanced theological debates on the subject, miles from the simplistic first-tier arguments. It is also interesting to…
When Trump attempts to make a half-serious overture of understanding to gun advocates, he is not intentionally, nor actually encouraging the rank and file to…
While we may often bemoan the use of “litmus tests” when it comes to picking candidates, sometimes that is truly the best and only way…
Premier Christianity published an interesting article today entitled Why France has produced a recipe for endless Islamist terrorist attacks. In it, the author lists a series…
Many of us suffer under the illusion that only “born artists” are creative, and the rest of us are just ungifted. But it turns out,…
Are you an audiobook junkie? Do you crave better listening material for your long commute? Do you also own a few Kindle books? Then you…