Nicoll, Regis "The Tyranny of ‘Reproductive Justice'" BreakPoint (November 12, 2012) Abortion is one of the few social topics about which there is somewhat widespread agreement among Evangelical Christians. While distinctions remain about the validity of abortions in...
Graham, Ruth "New England’s Quiet Christian Revival" The Week (January 8, 2105) Too often the news for Christians portrays no hopeful signs for our nation’s spiritual health. Of course, “bad news” attracts more readers, viewers and listeners than “good news” so that...
Noer, Michael "One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy is Reinventing Education" Forbes (November 2, 2012) Education in America today, particularly so-called “Higher Education”, is in turmoil as it has not been perhaps in our nation’s history....
Bruni, Frank "For Each Age, Its Agonies" The New York Times (January 7, 2013) “What age would you like to be right now?” The question came to me out of the blue, and, considering the source, made me want to answer it with as much caution as I could. I wanted to be...
Smith, James K.A. "You Can’t Think Your Way to God" Christianity Today (May 24, 2013) The C.S. Lewis Institute of Washington, DC used to provide a program each summer at beautiful Osprey Point called “Knowing and Doing.” The program was founded on the fact that a full...
Elie, Paul "Has Fiction Lost Its Faith?" The New York Times (December 19, 2012) One of the most subtle romantic comedies of this year was the Nicole Holofcenter written and directed Enough Said, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the late James Gandolfini. The...
McDermott, Gerald R. "The Emerging Divide in Evangelical Theology" Virtue Online Gerry McDermott, Jordan-Trexler professor of religion at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, has been lecturing and writing on Christianity for many years at both the popular and...
Mathewes, Charles "Job, Career, Vocation, Life" Inside Higher Ed (December 13, 2013) Charles Mathewes, Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, has gone outside his considerably wide-ranging fields of interest (his university...
Cox, Adam J. "The Case for Boredom" The New Atlantis (Spring 2010) Three cheers for having nothing to do and doing nothing. That is the essence of Adam Cox’s argument in this interesting and provocative analysis of why children seem to tend so naturally to incivility...
Bradley, Anthony "The New Legalism" World News Group All of us are recovering legalists. Well, unfortunately, most of us are still legalists in countless and often unrecognizable ways. We love rules. Even more, we love rules that make us feel awesome. Quiet time in...
