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As a boy growing up in Genoa, Italy, Columbus had two dreams: one was to sail the untamed seas, and the other was to live up to his name and be a Christ-Bearer...

Questions of human reproduction inevitably define what it means to be human, and the moral issues which arise in connection with sex and reproduction are among the most divisive controversies of our time. The development of "test tube baby"...

Our moral imagination is haunted by monsters--and the greatest aspect of this horror is the fact that so many monsters are real. Is the world ready to face the reality of Mao Zedong?

The cloning of a human brings to mind the sterile, dehumanizing images of Huxley's Brave New World, with its fertilizing rooms, decanting chambers, and embryo stores representing the technological perfection of artificial human reproduction. The...

Are we witnessing the end of marriage? In a fascinating study, researcher Stanley Kurtz of the Hoover Institution indicates that marriage is already dying in Scandinavia, and his evidence demands attention. Why? Because unless something changes...

Are we witnessing the end of marriage? In a fascinating study, researcher Stanley Kurtz of the Hoover Institution indicates that marriage is already dying in Scandinavia, and his evidence demands attention.

The bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth invites a reconsideration of his legacy. Emerson's philosophy of self-reliance and unfettered intellectual freedom became the foundation for a new American philosophy. As such, it became the great...

While many liberal demoninations are hiding in the grass on the question of same-sex marriage, the Alliance of Baptists has come out with a bold call for the acceptance of homosexual relationships. At least give them credit for candor. Their...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of "Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" by Francis Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop. The anniversary serves to remind us all of just how unaware and unawake most evangelicals really were twenty-five years...

A remarkable culture-shift has taken place around us. The most basic contours of American culture have been radically altered. The so-called Judeo-Christian consensus of the last millennium has given way to a post-modern, post-Christian,...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of "Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" by Francis Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop. The anniversary serves to remind us all of just how unaware and unawake most evangelicals really were 25 years ago and how...

One of the most divisive issues in the church and society today is homosexual orientation. Are people born gay? Is it possible to change? Focus on the Family tackled this topic Nov. 2 at its Love Won Out conference in Washington, D.C.

Controversy over issues of contraception, birth control, and reproductive technologies continues to build, even as new technologies and issues quickly appear. Questions of human reproduction inevitably define what it means to be human, and the...

Clearly, I hit a nerve. Almost two years ago, I published an article entitled "Deliberate Childlessness: Moral Rebellion With a New Face." In that article I addressed the growing phenomenon of married couples who simply choose not to have...

In a world increasingly given to unrestrained sexual activity and a cornucopia of sensuality, voluntary sexual abstinence appears radical, suspicious, and downright odd. This certainly seems to be the case as Rolling Stone magazine reported on...

The fears I credit to singleness are not knee-knocking, palm-sweating fears like some. Instead they usually persist as a dull dread in the pit of my stomach. The message of the Bible, however, is that fear doesn’t have to take over my thoughts...

I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, about of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our...

The phenomenal success of the homosexual movement demands some explanation. How could all this happen so quickly? A look back at the publication of a public relations strategy for homosexual advance answers the question--and serves once again as...