Are science and religion in conflict? If popular discussions are any guide, the answer must be yes. From the debate over the compatibility of... Read More
There is a very bad argument for celibacy which has reared its head throughout the tradition and which is, even today, defended by some. It... Read More
I had the privilege of hearing Dr. Billy Graham preach about twenty years ago in Cincinnati. At the time, Dr. Graham was around eighty years... Read More
The recent dispute over whether Pope Francis denied the existence of hell in an interview attracted wide attention. This isn't... Read More
The tables have turned under Pope Francis. And a new type of Catholic has formed: the conservative dissenter.In the past, conservatives... Read More
In the spring of 1918, Germany and the Central Powers staged a final massive offensive that threatened to overwhelm British and French forces... Read More
Almost 150 years ago, Pope Pius IX led the Catholic Church in declaring the dogma of papal infallibility applied to solemn declarations of... Read More
White evangelical support for President Trump has reached a record high, according to a new poll by the Public Religion... Read More
Speaking alongside the flag-draped coffin of a police officer killed in a terrorist attack in southern France, President Emmanuel Macron last... Read More
A GROUP of evangelical leaders gathered near Chicago on April 16th and 17th to discuss the future of their movement. They were not well-known... Read More
For a few days this month, France experienced a relapse into the type of anti-Catholic rhetoric that, 100 years ago, would have thrilled half... Read More
The Talmud was the product of a Jewish society strongly concerned with hierarchy and deference. That has been clear in many ways throughout... Read More
From 2013–17, Akbar Ahmed led a group on a “listening tour” of Europe, aimed at discovering exactly what was going wrong in... Read More
The LDS Church is still growing, but its recently released figures from 2017 show that its rate of growth has slowed considerably over the... Read More
It's not surprising that the New York Times has, over many decades, often run pieces critical of the Catholic Church and the Pope,... Read More
Antisemitism is on the march. From the far-right demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, with their “Blood and Soil” chants and their “Jews will not replace us” placards to attacks on synagogues in Sweden, arson attacks on kosher restaurants in France and a spike in hate crimes against Jews in the UK. Antisemitism seems to have been given a new lease of life.The seeming Read More
There is a recurring theme in the papal rhetoric of the Francis era. To insist on the moral law too forcefully, the Pope and his allies often suggest, is to be like the Pharisees. Those “doctors of the law”, to borrow from a representative papal sermon, did not “consider people's lives but only their own rules of laws and words”, whereas Jesus was constantly willing to &ld Read More
