God, Religion, and America’s Addiction Crisis

The pictures are chilling and heartbreaking: zombie-like adults passed out in the front seat of a car, overdosed on opioids, a small child belted into the infant seat in the back, safe from traffic accidents but not from his or her own parents. America, in short, has an addiction problem. The statistics on deaths from drug overdoses collected […]

Justice in Historical Context

A feature article in a May 2017 issue of The Economist opens its discussion of the Six Day War with a clever play on the Genesis narrative: In the beginning they destroyed Egypt’s air force on the ground and knocked out the planes of Jordan, Iraq and Syria. That was Monday. Then they broke Egypt’s massive defences […]

Only When Richard Dawkins Criticized Islam Did He Cross a Line

Really it should come as no surprise that the scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins is the latest public figure to have fallen victim to a disinviting mania. After all, if a darling of the left feminist like Germaine Greer can face a campaign to silence her over her views on transgenderism or a woman of color […]

Reformed Theologians Using Pagan Sources 

For Reformed Catholics, appreciation extends well beyond our Reformed heritage. It has to. For our appreciation of the Christian tradition to cease to move beyond our Reformed borders is in fact to cease to be Reformed. 1 But just how far can appreciation extend? Even to pagan sources? Yes, indeed. After Calvin, in the time of Protestant […]

Birthplace of Peter the Apostle found in Israel 

The birthplace of the men Christians believe were some of the first followers of Jesus have been found in Israel, a team of archaeologists has claimed. Researchers say they may have discovered what they say is the home town of Peter, Philip and Peter’s brother Andrew, near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. Experts have […]