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Love Doesn't Make a Family
“Love, not biology makes a family,” is among the vilest and most pernicious lies floating infecting culture today
January 05, 2014
Watching Football During Advent
I’m not a sports fan, though if the NFL gave up the ghost tomorrow, I would feel sad for my son and other fans.
December 10, 2013
The ENDA Game
The entire gay rights movement begins with the assertion that sexual orientation and gender identity are just like race.
November 13, 2013
Today's Speed Bumps to Evangelism
Evangelism and worldview change require communication. We need to engage others with the truth of Christianity.
October 21, 2013
Some Kind of Weird Tyranny
Western civilization, prosperity and legitimacy are built on the rule of law. That rule has never been perfect — the tyrant in each of us sees to...
August 05, 2013
Marriage: I Don't Want to Argue About It
There is no doubt about it. Those who believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman (conjugal marriage) have by far the best...
July 24, 2013
Freedom and Families
Tomorrow is July 4th, Independence Day, the day we celebrate our American heritage of freedom as well we should. But over the past 237 years the...
July 03, 2013
Father's Day and the Future of Faith
If the breakdown of the family is one of the causes of secularism and makes evangelization -- including the evangelization of our own kids --...
June 14, 2013
Sin and the Distorted Image
Disgusting, inhumane, vile, and any others of a host of possible adjectives could be used to describe all this, but let me suggest that the most...
May 19, 2013
The Death of Empathy
The combination of single parents, absent parents, dual-income professional parents, daycare, after-care and easy, no-fault divorce have strained...
April 25, 2013
Victorious Warriors in the 'Long Defeat'
How much Christian engagement in politics over the past few decades has been with the presumption that we can’t possibly lose?
April 19, 2013
Hooking Up on Campus: The Job of Sex
We need to communicate that the Christian understanding of sexuality and marriage is not an onerous, out-of-date burden, but the good news that the...
April 05, 2013
There's More to Marriage Than Man and Wife
We've walked into the trap. If procreation is not a part of the nature of marriage and thus required for those who are able to procreate, there is...
April 05, 2013
Sequester: Be Very Afraid?
Warning! Alert! Gloom, despair, and agony on all of us! The end of life as we know it! Not really, but that’s what they’d like you to think.
March 01, 2013
Fragmented Families and the Future of the Church
While we can all cite examples of how their parents’ divorce turned some children to a strong and growing faith in Christ, that is far from the...
February 05, 2013
Why We Need a Little Advent
The observance of Advent reminds us that regardless of what happens next, the King is coming.
December 12, 2012
The Fiscal Cliff: That's Trillion with a 'T'
A big part of the difficulty in preventing a painful trip off the fiscal cliff is a fundamental misunderstanding of what "trillion" means.
December 03, 2012
Adultery, Unemployment and the Moral Law
To find out how the Petraeus saga will end, stay tuned -- assuming you have the stomach for it. But this much is certain: as much as some try to...
November 14, 2012
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