Joe Carter

President Obama’s brief speech at the memorial service for the victims of the Fort Hood massacre is by far the best speech that has ever been written for him. As a work of presidential rhetoric, it’s as solid as they come and should be used as a model for speechwriting. One section in . . . . Continue Reading »

Which HIV prevention programs are truly saving lives in Africa? In 2003, President Bush asked Congress for $15 billion to establish the PEPFAR plan to fight AIDS in Africa. A contentious debate ensued. The Democrats were seeking condom-centered prevention, and Republicans were demanding . . . . Continue Reading »

“Thank you for your service,” they say, as they shake our hands and pat our backs. We smile and thank them for their gratitude and try to think of something else to talk about. These encounters with strangers happen from time to time, though always on Veteran’s Day. It’s the one time we can count on civilians”a group from which we came but can never fully return”to think about us… . Continue Reading »

At the Evangel blog, Russell Moore explains how the children’s television show changed hearts and mind: Sesame Street was effective because the program didn’t just contexutalize to the present; it contextualized to the future. Remember, after all, when the show started. It was in 1969, . . . . Continue Reading »

In a recent issue of The Philosophers Magazine , atheist philosopher Raymond Tallis claims that Darwinism cannot explain the human mind: Consciousness makes evolutionary sense only if one does not start far enough back; if, that is to say, one fails to assume a consistent and sincere materialist . . . . Continue Reading »

Douglas Wilson on humbling the arts: Because of widespread relativism in aesthetics, it has come about that art cannot be evaluated in accordance with any objective criteria. Rather art must be evaluated in accordance with credentials of the artist. But these credentials are necessarily something . . . . Continue Reading »

Today marks the 234th birthday of the United States Marine Corps, the finest fighting force in the history of the world. The Marine Corps Birthday makes me nostalgic for the good ol‚ . . . well, maybe good is too strong a word. In fact, I can’t say that I miss being on active duty; but I do . . . . Continue Reading »

Joseph asked , “And where is Planned Parenthood going to go? Are they going to withdraw their support from President Obama and the Democrats?” They won’t have to go anywhere. After Planned Parenthood got off the phone with House Democrats, the liberal caucus decided it would kill . . . . Continue Reading »

A new report reveals that members of Congress are just like the rest of us . . . only much, much richer : Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall. CRP says California Republican . . . . Continue Reading »

You know what you get when you spell G-O-D backwards . . . When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start. Most of his worshippers, though devoted, were in their 60s, attendance had bottomed . . . . Continue Reading »