Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
InterVarsity Christian Ministry in Trouble for Acting Christian
To protect against discrimination, liberals increasingly seek to discriminate. News broke over the weekend that all twenty-three…
Dogs, Divorce, and Pre-pups
Like, we didn’t see this coming? Pets are becoming the center of custody struggles among divorcing couples.…
Knowing the Trinity
Richard of St. Victor, a 12th-century Scottish theologian, is not exactly a household name in 21st-century Christian…
An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins
Dear Dr. Dawkins, Earlier this week, on Twitter, you drew attention to a troubling fact unknown to…
Politics and the Arts
Jed Perl warns in the August 25 issue of the New Republic of a new threat to…
Against Obsessive Sexuality
For the March issue of First Things, I wrote an essay called “Against Heterosexuality.” In brief, my…
The Evangelical Academy
We were doing an interview on an NPR station, a kind of “point-counterpoint” thing. The other interviewee…
John Updike the Blogger
Every critic knows that John Updike was a gleeful child of his age, but did he rise…
The Scandal of Calvary
Is it possible for a film to capture the horror of the sexual abuse scandal in the…
The Down Syndrome Community’s Death Debate
Let’s try an experiment: Imagine you are a high school junior just starting to think about college.…
Will Doctors Be Forced to Kill?
The wailing and gnashing of teeth in some quarters over the modest Hobby Lobby decision has me…
Life Under Instant Replay
When taking stock of how far we haven’t come, I find myself reliving the early morning hours…
Weird Al Just Committed the Greatest Word Crime of All
He takes care lest by a slip of the tongue he use the ablative instead of the…
Greeks Bearing Debts
Classics is no longer seen as a cutting-edge discipline, but two centuries ago German scholars devoted to…
Unsolicited Advice On How To Find A Mate
In one of his lesser known comedies, playwright Neil Simon depicts the irrationality of undiluted physical attraction…
