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Defining Marriage: Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object?

Tom Gilson

The movement toward same-sex “marriage” has every appearance of being an irresistible force, with recent elections indicating the inexorability of its spread across the Western world. Those who stand...

Reasoned Discussion, Common Humanity, and Hate Speech

Tom Gilson

We are within a few weeks of the release of What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense , an expanded version of Sherif Girgis, Robert George, and Ryan...

An Act of God and Doing the Right Thing

Tom Gilson

The President’s response to Hurricane Sandy was important to 4 in 10 voters, according to a Fox News report; and of that group, two-thirds voted for re-election. The storm...

Politics and Imperfection

Tom Gilson

Boston University scholar Stephen Prothero thinks evangelicals are putting politics ahead of God . It seems to me he’s mixed up some important categories, not only for evangelicals but...

Phil Snider’s Brilliant Theater In Service of a Distortion

Tom Gilson

The Rev. Dr. Phil Snider’s pro-gay rights performance before the Springfield, Missouri city council became an overnight sensation last month. More than 3 million people have viewed it. And...

“‘Nones’ On the Rise”

Tom Gilson

From the Pew Forum’s report “‘Nones’ on the Rise: One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation” (PDF), released this morning: In the last five years alone, the [religiously] unaffiliated have...

“So Many Professors” To Tell Christians Not To Argue For Their Beliefs

Tom Gilson

Joseph Knippenberg raised a serious concern at First Thoughts last week about the way University of Central Florida professor Charles Negy reacted to students arguing for the validity of...

Wrong Despite the Internet

Tom Gilson

The Internet has made it easier than ever before to catch and correct misinformation. Dan Rather’s false reporting on George W. Bush’s National Guard experience was exposed by a...

SSM and the Religious Divide: The Essential Meaning of Marriage

Tom Gilson

I’ve been hearing the charge recently that there are no non-religious reasons to oppose same-sex “marriage,” and therefore there are no constitutionally valid reasons to oppose it. I’m not...

Discord In Heaven? You Bet!

Tom Gilson

One of the great puzzles about our future in heaven is, won’t we be bored? I know there will be lots of joy and love and worship. I’m not...

Charles W. Colson, 1931-2012

Tom Gilson

Charles Colson has gone home to be with the Lord. The Prison Fellowship ministry family invites you to join in celebrating his life. My son, Jonathan, and I bumped...

Please Pray for Chuck Colson

Tom Gilson

Please pray for Chuck Colson and for his family members, who have been called to his bedside in Fairfax, Virginia. Please pray also for the staff at Prison Fellowship...

How Anti-Religious “Defenders” of Science Hinder Science

Tom Gilson

Somebody uploaded a video on YouTube to send a message that scientists ought not believe in God. The speaker is Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He is an astrophysicist and the...

The Irony of Atheism – The Gospel Coalition Blog

Tom Gilson

Carson Weitnauer writes at the Gospel Coalition blog about the Irony of Atheism, including, The contrasts are clear: atheists claim that religion is the main barrier to reason. Christians...

Reason Rally in a Pickle

Tom Gilson

The organizers of the upcoming secularist Reason Rally have placed themselves in a pickle. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for these who portray themselves...