It's important to trace the history of marriage within the Western Christian tradition to understand the ironic conundrum with which Americans find themselves today.
Early Christians in the first through third century understood marriage to be a union between one man and one woman created by God as a consummated...
(22) Comments | Posted April 3, 2012 | 4:36 PM
In The Jeremy Lin Problem, David Brooks argued that an underlying problem exists for religious professional athletes. He wrote, "the moral ethos of sport is in tension with the moral ethos of faith," making the false assumption that only non-religious people can play sports because they don't have...
(46) Comments | Posted February 6, 2012 | 2:35 PM
A well-known lawyer, Clarence Darrow said, "As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."
The question of wrongs and objection exist today -- now surrounding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources'...
(926) Comments | Posted December 6, 2011 | 2:47 PM
Reading the results of the Pew poll about Mormonism, reminds me of what Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in "Strength to Love": "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
The fact that two thirds of mainline Protestants and Catholics believe...
(831) Comments | Posted November 21, 2011 | 8:18 AM
Something is wrong with Christianity in America.
I am a pro-life evangelical who continues to witness efforts by pro-lifers that are exasperating: baby bottle campaigns orchestrated to help single moms with chump change; protesting outside of abortion clinics; attempts to change the law...

(71) Comments | Posted May 15, 2012 | 12:31 PM