Luke Foster

In a May commencement address at the historically black Morehouse College, President Obama promoted same-sex marriage and cohabitation, advising the male audience of graduates to “Be the best husband to your wife, or your boyfriend, or your partner.” As Southern Baptist pastor William Dwight McKissic, Sr., pointed out, this was “an assault on Christian values and convictions… Continue Reading »

The recent  New York Times  exploration  of the sexual world of the University of Pennsylvania claims that competitiveness and insecurity feed off each other to drive campus sexual culture: Typical of elite universities today, Penn is filled with driven young women, many of whom . . . . Continue Reading »

Summer intern Katherine Devorak’s  On the Square   reflects on her Fuller Seminary class, which “empowers and equips a new generation of artists and church leaders to effectively integrate worship, theology, and the arts.” The class instilled a love of the Church’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter J. Leithart traces the decline of traditional denominationalism in today’s column : A 2009  Barna survey  found that denominational commitments have gone squishy in mainline Protestant churches, and Evangelicals don’t fare much better than the rest. After a similar . . . . Continue Reading »

In his  On the Square  today , Russell E. Saltzman considers the fickleness of a member of the rising generation in the Internet Age: For the generation ahead of him, Facebook is still the social media choice. But his generation (I remember that phrase being used a lot) doesn’t like . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s column , Victor Lee Austin reflects on the proliferation of ultrasound technology: Every young expectant couple I know today, without exception, when they have a prenatal visit, hope they will get to see the baby. Every baby’s photo book today has a sonogram for its first . . . . Continue Reading »

Brazil has been rocked by chaotic protests sparked by the FIFA Confederations Cup in June, reports Emma Elliott Freire in today’s  On the Square . The protests began when a leftist group ( Movimento Passe Livre ) denounced an increase in bus fares and demanded a greater level of . . . . Continue Reading »

“Evangelical Catholicism is not some 50-yard line between Catholic left and Catholic right, but a vision of Church far beyond those polarities,” argues George Weigel in today’s column . Answering critics of his new book, he summarizes his position: I suggested that the past . . . . Continue Reading »

Flags and fireworks. Generous helpings of out-of-context Declaration of Independence quotes. Quite a few hot dogs—New York City street cart vendors making a killing. But all these constituent elements of memorializing the courage of the planters, pastors, merchants, lawyers, and scholars who . . . . Continue Reading »

  Recent revelations of the National Security Agency’s intrusive surveillance have provoked many nervous glances over the shoulder from Americans concerned to preserve individual civil liberties. Timothy George  pointed out today that the news, coming as it does in the wake of the . . . . Continue Reading »