Cross Purposes

Stephen Prothero published a thoughtful blog on our culture's "disposable Jesus." http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/11/my-...

"All Things Considered" today read a letter from a listener who enjoyed a recent news-story. The writer said he was a gun-owning L...

I've talked before about the demonic "philosophy" of Ayn Rand, and her pervasive influence on the "conservative" mov...

It was announced last night that Osama Bin Laden has been killed by American military forces. The news this morning showed jubilant crowds i...

I can't remember what book it was: some Christian best-seller the class had decided to study: and I admit I was a reluctant participant....

It always takes me a while to work through problems, to their root. This one has taken even longer than usual; but I may have reached some ...

On this day 150 years ago, the Civil War began when secessionists fired on a U.S. Army fort. When it was over, 25% of southern men were dea...

God's tests are always a chance: rather, a mandate: to test ourselves...whosoever will. His test this week is even clearer than usual i...

Earlier this week, while I was frantically trying to finish my work and leave for a meeting I was already late for, our lawyer-neighbor came...

I don't usually bother to be for or against politicians. It's a mindless substitute for thinking through political issues, or havi...