Greg Forster

Protestants can debate charismata and Rome without confusing the two issues. Continue Reading »

Reformed believers need to overcome the identity of “exiles from the mainline.” We’re Evangelicals now. Continue Reading »

Dale Coulter is right that some of our Reformed friends need to quit trying to read charismatic claims out of Protestantism. But B. B. Warfield was better on these issues than they are. Continue Reading »

Kevin Williamson’s cover story in the new National Review, “The End of Sex in an Age of Pornography,” is well worth your time, if you can stomach it. Continue Reading »

Mark, you write that in Jonathan Haidt’s apolitical political quiz, “none of the questions relates to economics; Haidt’s point, which seems right to me, is that politics remains largely a matter of moral intuition.” But there are also no questions on abortion, gay marriage, . . . . Continue Reading »

Phillip , thanks for these profound reflections on how Genesis reveals what is distinct about human sexuality. Your central observation that “mutual help and companionship,” rather than reproduction, is what makes human sexuality distinctively human is urgently relevant to our efforts . . . . Continue Reading »

Bill Gates says  art is evil. Terry Teachout says Bill Gates is a barbarian. Jay Greene agrees , and he has the data to prove it. In support of his view that art is evil, Gates cites the utilitarian philosophy of Peter Singer, who openly favors infanticide. I believe it was Hans Urs von . . . . Continue Reading »

A scholar of early modern political thought once commented that reading Locke’s critique of Filmer is like watching a wolf tear up a teddy bear. Much the same could be said of Glenn Moots’ review of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined . Moots . . . . Continue Reading »

Perennial embarrassment David Barton, desperate for attention after the humiliating events surrounding his last book, is making noises about running for Senate . Barton “advisor” Rick Green is making statements to the press that reflect all the modesty, self-awareness and mastery of . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark , I’m with you all the way on preserving the special protection for religion in law. But I don’t see any difficulty in acknowledging that you can have religion without God, and especially without a specifically theistic conception of God. Is Hinduism not a religion? Buddhism? There . . . . Continue Reading »