Researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences altered one gene in a female fruitfly, and she began avidly sexually pursuing other female fruit flies. Pro-gay…
Stacy Harp of Mind and Media has worked with Voice of the Martyrs to start the Persecution blog. The persecuted church is one of my…
Sometime this week the normal MTV’s TRL scene will take place – A musician will come in to premeire their video, dozens of teenagers will…
Matthew Fox, the well-known Creation Spiritualist, has a new book out entitled A New Reformation (not available on Amazon yet). In it, he lists what…
Just came across this post which reviews the new book, Destructive Trends In Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path to Harm. The authors argue that, rather…
Here’s the next Schiavo-like pro-life case, but probably not as controversial (we’ll see). A 17-week pregnant woman has become brain dead, and they are keeping…
Looks like a Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) pastor has introduced a resolution to his denomination to: "remove their children from public schools and see…
Next to the NKJV/NRSV translations, the Living Bible is one of my favorite paraphrase translations (it leaves botch jobs like The Message in the dust…
Often, when I am discussing the violent teachings of the Islamic faith, someone will counter with “what about the crusades?” I am so tired of…
The Prickly Pear has an eloquent article on why the conservative right is not worthy of the labels "extremist" or "theocratic." I wish I had…
In Part I, we introduced the idea of wounded masculinity, and how all men have some level of injury, and many men have significant wounds…
For those of you on the left coast, the annual Christian music festival Spirit West Coast is coming July 28-30. My wife and I will…
Liberals like to classify anyone who takes the bible more than allegorically true as literalists, but there is a whole spectrum. I couldn’t find a…
From NPR: In California, a State Supreme Court case will define parental rights for lesbian couples who are no longer together. Should the biological mother…
Stephen Bennet has built a ministry out of his ex-gay experience, and was recently interviewed on TBN. Now, most of those hosts on TBN seem…
Most men today arrive in adulthood with injured masculinity. We are victims of bad or absent fathering, or abuse by other males. Rather than displaying…
Phillip Yancey, author of many Christian books, has an excellent article over at CT. He discusses the many different faces of Evangalicalism around the world,…
I was searching through google groups for old postings I made on the Usenet back in my college days, and found some postings I had…
I just found this NARTH review of a well-written, balanced (if not liberal) article from Social Work Today entitled Reparative Therapy: What’s Broken? While the…
Today, I seem to have run into a couple of articles on homosexuality that I want to discuss. First, in Words That Need to Become…
“I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist,” written by apologetic gurus Norman Geisler and Frank Turek, is everything I expected and more. It…
In what may become a semi-regular series, I present to you the strange and unusual from the world of faith – the Remarkable Realm of…
Honestly, it really doesn’t matter where I was or what I thought five year ago today. I wasn’t in New York City or Washington DC.…
I saw this great program on Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (PBS), discussing a church in Chicago that links modern black xianity to Christians from the…