Concerns about moral values during the sexual revolution…galvanized evangelical leaders into action, said the Rev. George Grant of Parish Presbyterian Church [PCA] in Franklin. “There was a great deal of alarm about the future of our world,” he said.

The White House issued a statement on Tuesday verifying that the administration “strongly opposes” the provision, known as Section 536 that provides protection for the chaplains and Section 537 that says military facilities cannot be used to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blasted a Republican proposal that would protect military chaplains... Continue Reading

Many of America’s contemporary crises, from the housing bubble and the financial crash to the collapse of the two-parent family, can be traced to just this tendency — encouraged by too much contemporary religion — to make the self’s ambitions the measure of all things. If a foreign visitor –a modern-day Alexis De Tocqueville, let’s... Continue Reading

Liberals, Haidt found, mostly pay attention to just three moral foundations -- care, fairness and liberty. Conservatives, though, especially social conservatives, pay attention to all six (care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity, and liberty). As a result, Haidt argues, liberals have to work harder to understand conservatives than vice versa.

Report shows how the liberal politicization of UC schools decreases students’ ability to think objectively. In 2000, a group of about 175 raucous UC Berkeley students disrupted conservative author Daniel Flynn as he gave a speech about how he believed Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a... Continue Reading

“Obama laid down the gauntlet on black leaders,” Jackson said. “The question we are being forced to address is ‘are you going to be black or be godly.'” An influential African-American evangelical pastor says that many black Christians are in an “adulterous” relationship with President Obama over the issue of same-sex marriage and that if... Continue Reading

Parenting children in the way of the Lord is more work than simply wishing for a dream child, but the mom who follows Him is pleasing in His sight. This is a great reward. In The Odd Life of Timothy Green, a childless couple writes the attributes of their dream child on paper. They want... Continue Reading

One of main reasons I have focused my research on the area of canon is because it is such a significant area of vulnerability for biblical Christianity. That is not to say we lack reasons for believing in the canon (I think we have very good reasons), rather it is simply to say that the... Continue Reading

Obama uses the Bible to “exploit what divides us.” There are legitimate theological arguments on both sides of our political divide, but they are not equally well received. In America, it seems, one man’s moral teacher is another’s Torquemada — the difference is usually determined by party registration — and the returns on overt religiosity... Continue Reading

The [Biola] university’s board had actually been meeting at the time, talking about a new statement on human sexuality, which was adopted and which the university released. The new statement stands behind university teachings that the only allowable sex is between a married man and woman, but the statement argues that there is a place... Continue Reading