Opinion

• Assisted Suicide Turned Homicide?: Doing in the Dutch Officially, the Netherlands is a safer country to live in than the United States. Its gun homicide rate is about 4 percent that of the United States, and its official murder rate is less than one-fourth that of the United... Feb 05, 2019

  

  Assisted Suicide Turned Homicide?: Doing in the Dutch
• Two Responses to the Ralph Northam Controversy Ralph Northam served eight years as a United States Army medical officer, then became a pediatric neurologist. He served in Virginia’s state Senate and as lieutenant governor before becoming governor earlier this year. Feb 05, 2019

  

  Two Responses to the Ralph Northam Controversy
• Why Freaking Out about Christian Schools Proves Evangelicals’ Irrational Fears Everyone needs to stop freaking out about Christian schools. Though they made headlines in the past few weeks thanks to Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, these institutions are not nearly as interesting and exotic... Feb 04, 2019

  

  Why Freaking Out about Christian Schools Proves Evangelicals’ Irrational Fears
• The World without Christianity: “Unimaginable” A couple of years ago, Jeremiah Johnston and his wife binge-watched the HBO series “The Man in the High Castle.” The series is set in a world where Nazi Germany and Japan won World War II and now occupy the United States. Feb 04, 2019

  The World without Christianity: “Unimaginable”
• Why the Rams’ Super Bowl Loss Matters Today As everyone who doesn’t live on Mars must know, the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams to win Super Bowl LIII yesterday. Feb 04, 2019

  Why the Rams’ Super Bowl Loss Matters Today
• The Faith of Mariano Rivera: The Hammer of God Heads to Cooperstown Since 1932, 323 players, managers, executives and umpires have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. What they all have in common is that none of them, not even Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, or Joe... Feb 01, 2019

  The Faith of Mariano Rivera: The Hammer of God Heads to Cooperstown
• Why the Super Bowl and Secular Spirituality Are So Popular When Tom Brady played in his first Super Bowl, there was no iPhone or Android. No Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, or Gmail. No Uber, Airbnb, or iTunes Store. Feb 01, 2019

  Why the Super Bowl and Secular Spirituality Are So Popular
• The Silent Pulpit Is Not God's Pulpit In light of a recent Barna survey suggesting that pastors are afraid to tackle moral issues, I was pleased that Dr. Michael Brown asked me to be on his show regarding why the pulpit is silent? The interview is below. Jan 31, 2019

  The Silent Pulpit Is Not God's Pulpit
• Thou Shalt Not Smirk We live in a time when tolerance is just a one-way street. Those who clamor loudest for tolerance are the most intolerant people around if they are offended – which happens often these days. To wit, the recent story involving... Jan 31, 2019

  Thou Shalt Not Smirk
• Do Religious Fundamentalists Have Brain Damage?: The “Just-So Stories” Masquerading as Science In 1902, Rudyard Kipling published a collection of children’s stories that became known as the “Just So Stories.” These were fanciful “explanations” for how various animals acquired their best-known characteristics, like the... Jan 31, 2019

  Do Religious Fundamentalists Have Brain Damage?: The “Just-So Stories” Masquerading as Science