CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan and LCWR sparked an uproar this week after they came out definitively in favor of the Senate health care bill, which top pro-life organizations……have strongly condemned as unacceptable for its abortion funding provisions. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed to reporters today that President Barack Obama actively promoted the... Continue Reading

If nothing else, the GCRTF report should serve as a call for every Southern Baptist church to pay careful attention to the next 3 months and to send informed messengers to Orlando to vote on the recommendations with discernment. Providence and a desire to be as thoughtful as I can have kept me from posting... Continue Reading

Those who would like to comment on opinion pieces and editorials in the Opinion and Commentary Section may now do so. (A few of you have already discovered this!) In a recent redesign of the layout of The Aquila Report, we had intended for the Opinion and Commentary Section be the one place where readers... Continue Reading

I have refrained from extended comment on the health care reform bills — not because I do not have multiple concerns about the bills, but because I recognize that committed Christians can and will disagree over the political and policy issues involved. The trip-wire for me is the issue of human life. The current bill... Continue Reading

I believe students are ill served if a Christian liberal arts community does not equip them to do this seriously. Erskine has tried to do so in the past. I pray it will be able to do so in the future. Many are wondering whether Erskine has “gone secular.” I certainly understand why. Many colleges... Continue Reading

If we are good Presbyterians, whose consciences should be bound to Scripture alone, then why should we be deemed wise to follow a tradition that Romanism has practiced? Introduction With the dawning of the Reformation, our gracious and merciful God lifted His people from the dregs of Popery. For centuries, God’s visible church had languished... Continue Reading

In the distant future I see a “book” that will allow me to underline with straight lines that later doesn’t hinder my reading because the line blotted out the words. Nighttime will many times find my wife and me lying in bed reading. Cindy will alternate between novels, WIC books and studies, and other interesting... Continue Reading

King City in Monterey County California has experienced two violent crimes already this year. One resulted in death and the other in two children wounded in a cross fire between gangs in the Town Square. Gang warfare and gang as a substitute family are growing cancers in American cities. Human beings were designed as social... Continue Reading

I believe that regardless of the outcome on the original matter, the very fact of the lawsuit creates more damage to the Church (and therefore to both sides of the Erskine controversy) than the dispute out of which the lawsuit arose. The last week has seen tremors run through Erskine College, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian... Continue Reading

If so radical an action has taken place in the last century or two in American higher education, no historians I’ve read have noted it. Editor’s Note: Joel Belz is the Founder and the original and long-time Publisher of World Magazine. He also has spent much of his adult life on the board of Covenant... Continue Reading