For years, gay rights activists in Illinois fought for legalization of civil unions while slowly working toward a marriage bill. The marriage bill got nowhere, but civil unions were legalized in 2011, giving gay couples across Illinois the opportunity to have the same state-level rights as married couples. After passage of the civil unions bill,... Continue Reading

In 405 AD, a British monk named Pelagius attended a public reading of one of the best-selling of books of that decade – and of all time. And he didn’t like what he heard. … It was Augustine’s awareness of his continuing inward struggles after conversion and baptism that lay behind the famous statement that... Continue Reading

He saw the need to begin singing substantive songs – songs rich in scriptural allusion and doctrinal truth – that would help bridge this gap.  The worship lexicon of these students was anemic.  They did not have a good means of connecting the Bible with their own personal experience.  The old hymns of the faith... Continue Reading

Talk of momentum, however accurate it might be regarding public opinion polls, is quickly going to hit a roadblock — 30 of them in fact — that won’t simply crumble after an impassioned floor speech or, as with Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, after learning that he has a gay son. The roadblocks are the 30... Continue Reading

You are worthy of your hire and the congregation should strive to adequately take care of you and your family, but you must measure the pressure you put on them with the understanding that believers should not give to God out of necessity or compulsion, but with cheerfulness. Part of their cheerfulness will come from... Continue Reading

“Spiritually, he had to make do too — reading his English Bible rather than in Greek, which brought home some things with a freshness; worshipping with Roman Catholics. Of one sermon he says ‘It was far, far better than what we got from the Protestant liberals’. In conversation afterwards, he could not agree with the... Continue Reading

In scenes captured on video and posted online, firemen desperately sawed away at the four-inch-wide pipe just below a ceiling in which the boy was trapped. The rescuers then rushed the section of pipe to a hospital, where firemen and doctors alternately used pliers and saws to take it apart.    It began when perplexed... Continue Reading

It reminds me of just how blessed I am. The truth is that I very nearly missed out on becoming a mother  –  thanks to being brought up by a rabid feminist who thought motherhood was about the worst thing that could happen to a woman. You see, my mum taught me that children enslave... Continue Reading

So Congress implemented a tax credit to facilitate adoption – a process that is so extraordinarily expensive that it is out of reach for many middle-class families — and the IRS responded by implementing an audit campaign that delayed much-needed tax refunds to the very families that needed them the most. Oh, and the return on its investment in this harassment?... Continue Reading

Jonathan Edwards’ writings fill twenty-five imposing volumes in the Yale Works. The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University, a beacon of unfiltered light in American academe, has plans to disseminate many more online. Did you catch that, or did your eyes skip over it? 25 volumes! And they’re not boring or meandering. If you just... Continue Reading