Why is it that we humans long for lasting peace? The answer is simple: We were made for it. This…
It seems one man’s religious freedom is another man’s “ridiculous prejudice.” One government official fumed that Catholic doctors were refusing…
Sometimes people make the most powerful witnesses in the least expected way. Last Friday, I was humbled to give the…
As I’ve said before on BreakPoint, the Obama administration is planning to revoke the Bush-era “conscience clause” that protects health-care…
Has the church cheapened the grace of God? Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued the case in The Cost of Discipleship. In…
Yesterday on BreakPoint, I talked about a Christian ethic of hope—a hope not based on wishful thinking, but on the…
There’s a manual which provides mental health professionals with “diagnostic criteria for mental disorders.” I suggest that the manual should…
In a recent New York Times column, David Brooks told a story that perfectly captured the divide between what I…
Two hundred years ago, three boys were born a few days apart in Germany, England, and the United States. All…
As every school child knows, the Pilgrims arrived in the New World in the winter of 1620. After a difficult…
