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Previously, we learned that the distinction between innocence and guilt solves three of the common conceptual arguments against capital punishment....

Albert Mohler speaks with African-American pastor Eric Redmond of Hillcrest Baptist Church in Maryland about the controversy surrounding Barack...

Senator Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech was political rhetoric at its finest. While skillfully denouncing the words of his pastor and...

In my previous column, we saw that the practical objection about executing innocent convicts can be solved by heightening the capital standard to...

Over 60 percent of New Yorkers wanted Governor Eliot Spitzer to resign at the revelation he had solicited sex with a prostitute. What’s wrong with...

To this point in our series on capital punishment, we saw that retribution (rather than rehabilitation, incapacitation, deterrence, or symbolism)...

The pastor of America’s 15th fastest growing church probably likes all the attention. Lord knows he doesn’t do much to discourage the bloggers who...

I honestly thought the corporations that print today’s bibles had finally exhausted all of the possible “special editions.” I mean, what else is...

Given that the most well-known fact about Senator John McCain is his war record of courageous endurance in a prisoner camp, why do some...

They swoon, they faint, they genuflect, they take pictures, scribble notes, cheer until their voices sound like Darth Vader with a cold, and clap...

French President Nicholas Sarkozy is an unlikely scourge of European secularism: He is on his third marriage and has been called the "playboy...

One in four adults age 18 to 29 claims no affiliation with any religious institution—a troubling statistic as we consider the next generation of...

George Barna, the beloved Christian pollster, recently announced to the world in his book “Revolution” that the institutional church was dead. That...

One of the Bush administration's most successful programs is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief-PEPFAR for short. It is the biggest...

Are you excited about Presidents’ Day? Neither am I. It’s hard to think of a less inspiring, more perfunctory “holiday.” To most Americans, its...