Sex trafficking and human slavery are rising rapidly around the world in places where the poor and weak are being victimized, and good people look the other way.
Heroism is always an act of love. It is a willful decision to put someone else's safety and well-being ahead of your own, to set aside self-interest and self-preservation for the good of another.
The horrific shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was not driven by the killer's ideology, but by his spiritual and moral emptiness. The true source of his rage was the existential meaninglessness of a life cut off from the source of all hope, Jesus Christ, our redeemer and creator.
Southwest Airlines has recently amended its list of the Acts of God for which it is not liable. It's interesting that in this post-modern age, we still talk about the acts of a sovereign God.
It's ironic how much blind faith is required to live in the modern world. Technology forces us to put our complete trust in things we do not, and cannot, understand. We must live by faith or live in paralysis.
Science wants to de-mystify mystery. It is committed to finding material explanations for those paradoxical outliers, like musical giftedness, that make us want to give credit to God. It wants to say that Mozart wasn't any different from the rest of us. Really?
Biblical scholar and NT professor Ben Witherington takes on the arguments against Jesus presented in Bart Ehrman's popular new book, "Jesus, Interrupted."
Yes, we can. That was the mantra of the Obama candidacy, and so far, the guiding principle of his young administration. Yes we can farm human embryos for adult spare parts. Yes we can. Yes we can. But no, we shouldn't.
At a time when America should be proud of the achievement of a certain black man, the politics of race threatens to incite us to war. Whatever the outcome on Nov. 4, it will be up to black and white Christians to set an example, putting aside our political differences to embrace each other at the foot of the cross.
Here's proof that life isn't fair: The "super wealthy" New York Yankees have won the World Series 26 times. The "middle class" Chicago Cubs haven't won in 100 years. What exactly is Congress doing to fix this World Series unfairness?
With all the recent political talk about the importance of experience, doesn't it seem ironic that Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and so many other Wall Street juggernauts have been sailed into the rocks by some of our nation's most highly experienced corporate managers? Am I missing something?
Air travel was once luxurious. The chic, cross-country traveler dressed up for the occasion. Hot meals were served on china. Now, it's all about getting there as fast as possible. We have a need for speed.
Is there a God who embraces us when we cry out in the darkness, or is there just the empty echo of our own voices? Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has found a surprising answer to that question.
God is (unhelpfully) invisible and apparently silent. When I am sitting on a rock in the desert sun, I may believe God is watching, I may even believe there are leprechauns hiding among the trees, but that hardly makes it so. Are we alone?
The Judeo-Christian concept of human worth is that we are God's priceless, crowning act of creation. The US Environmental Protection Agency takes a more utilitarian view, valuing human beings at $7.22 million each. So, which is it? Are we priceless, or are we mere commodities, stamped with a price tag like everything else?
We borrow everything we believe from someone else. All of us are persuaded by the words and actions of others, and once we are persuaded, we build our lives around their beliefs. Whose words move you? Whose philosophy guides you?
Heath Ledger has a real shot at becoming this generation's James Dean. His life will be polished by his publicists, his films will be watched with new interest by adoring fans, and we will all boo-hoo about a great talent snatched from us in the prime of life.
Childless couples are turning to in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive children. The Christian church highly values life, family, and children, but has ethical concerns about IVF. Is the church merely stuck in the past, or is there reason to be worried?
In 1913, former President Theodore Roosevelt began an expedition down an unknown river in the heart of the Amazon that would test the character of every member of his team.
David Wayne reflects on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the epidemic of malaria her brand of environmental paranoia unleashed on the world's poorest.
One hopes that while Paris cools her heals in the LA County celebrity slammer, she'll take the time to ask herself a few hard questions. Maybe attend a few AA meetings. Maybe even come to Jesus.
This scientific age sees all deviancy as a puzzle to be solved through the application of rationalism. Sometimes there's a better spiritual explanation — Evil.
Rachel Barenblat considers Joseph's request that his bones not be left in Egypt, and what it says about our own connections to family and our personal history.
Consumers and media producers are involved in a continuing cat and mouse game, in which ever more complex and restrictive systems are created to protect intellectual rights, only to be broken by clever, and frustrated, consumers who want full benefit from the products they have purchased.
A political system that wants to call itself "Christian" must be built on a foundation of self-denial, not self-aggrandizement. It must hold that every human being has an essential dignity and intrinsic worth as a son or daughter of God. Self-denial is not degrading — rather, it points us to what it means to be truly human, in community.
I suspect Michael Fox has thought a lot about God since he first received his diagnosis. Perhaps he has even wondered, as many have in his place, how a good and loving Father could allow his children to suffer so terribly.
Pope Benedict is being criticized for doing exactly what religious leaders are supposed to do: pointing out how Christianity is different from religions X, Y and Z.
Our western love affair with libertarianism, individualism and egalitarianism has led many pedophiles to see themselves as victims of Puritan taboos, and a class of people being denied their civil right to have sex with children.
Sometime in the coming week, the US will execute its 1000th death-row inmate. And the number of children put to death by elective abortion? Only God knows.
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The universe seems to have been carefully tweaked to support life. Like a gambler on a hot streak, life rolled seven after seven after seven after seven, to the point of nearly breaking the house.
Without realizing it, we have adopted John Stuart Mill's utilitarian principles. Utilitarianism is ultimately a subjective and ego-centric philosophy—in practice, it looks a great deal like social Darwinism.
Darwin was right—life is all about the survival of the fittest. Those who could swim lived. You think the Red Cross is somehow going to reverse the Laws of Nature?
The Groningen Protocol, which allows a committee to actively euthanize a newborn, topples a critical and vital barrier: A person may be put to death for medical reasons without regard for his or her wishes.
The Democratic party, while chastising conservatives for their hawkish tendency to drop bombs on dictators and, collaterally, children, is meanwhile waging a much deadlier war on the children themselves.
