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Christians in Brazil: To Protest or Not to Protest?

In recent weeks, Brazil has been convulsed with protests. How are Christians responding? Two different believers in Brazil take two different attitudes. Guilherme de Carvalho is a staff worker at L’Abri, a Christian study center, in Belo Horizonte, a city in the more developed southeast of Brazil. He is also the pastor of a local Evangelical congregation… . Continue Reading »

Why I’m Disappointed by the Texas Abortion Law

Much of the pro-life community is excited over the passage last week of a bill in the Texas House of Representatives restricting abortions after twenty weeks. On the surface, this sounds like a bill that everyone who is pro-life should support. After all, the legislation is based on findings that unborn babies experience pain beginning at the twentieth week of development… Continue Reading »

Serious Summer Reading Recommendations

Spenser’s Faerie Queene and James’ Golden Bowl as summer reading? I can hear my wife groaning and commenting that these recommendations amount to the intellectual equivalent of my usual vacation plans, which often involve climbing remote mountains and going on hundred mile bike rides. Continue Reading »

Avery's Ten Rules

The year 2014 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of the ongoing project Evangelicals and Catholics Together. From the beginning, ECT was more than an alliance of convenience. It was a theological movement grounded in the Holy Scriptures and the deepest impulses of the historic Christian faith.… Continue Reading »

Calling and Witness, Holiness and Truth

Thank you, Alliance Defending Freedom, for your heroic work defending life, marriage, and liberty. During the past year it has been a blessing to work together on marriage. It’s been a source of encouragement. Thank you Austin Nimocks, Kellie Fiedorek, and Greg Scott for your friendship over the past year… .Continue Reading »

Gregory A. Thornbury’s Mission to Revive Carl F. H. Henry

Gregory A. Thornbury, the recently-announced incoming president of the King’s College, has a great task ahead of him. The institution he will lead announces that its mission is to “contribute to American society by producing graduates who command the important intellectual traditions, who think lucidly about the social and political issues that confront them today … Continue Reading »

Obesity Fight an International Disease

We no longer perceive ourselves to be free people making good or bad personal choices from which we will either benefit or suffer. Instead, our personal problems are being medicalized”almost to the point that whenever we hurt ourselves, we are told it is actually a symptom of illness… . Continue Reading »

How A Better GOP Can Do Better Among Nonwhite Voters

Is the Supreme Court’s decision to make it easier for states to institute voter ID laws a gift to the center left? So argues Ross Douthat, who points out that while voter IDs do not seem to have driven down voting by nonwhites in 2012, there is reason to think that the left can use them to rally public opinion against the return of Jim Crow-type disenfranchisement… . Continue Reading »

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