The Battle for Marriage: Imagination, Culture and Politics
Popular culture, including "Will and Grace," has shaped the way Americans feel about same-sex relationships.
Popular culture, including "Will and Grace," has shaped the way Americans feel about same-sex relationships.
For many of today's spiritual seekers, life is a big buffet: Take a little of this, a little of that. But how nourishing is this spiritual smorgasbord?
Americans recently got a lesson in hypocrisy -- and of how dangerous it can be to redefine words.
The whole world loves a good escape story. But in the case of a certain Chinese dissident, the world needs to hear the rest of the story.
It's like the Sinatra song: If Christianity can make it there, it can make it anywhere. I'm talking about New York, New York, my home town.
Apart from Watergate, Chuck is best-known for his ministry to prisoners. But to say that Chuck ministered to prisoners is to miss the point almost entirely.
I'm not old enough to remember Chuck as a controversial political figure during Watergate, so I have always thought of him mainly as an inspiring Christian leader.
There's a tendency sometimes to demonize our enemies instead of loving them and, more to the point, showing them that we love them.
I'm thrilled public schools are now teaching religion all over the country. But, you'll have to guess which country.
If strong marriages are the foundation of a healthy society, we've got a lot of repair work to do.