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The Obama administration has chosen to fight wars on three fronts: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Fox News. Unlike the other two conflicts, the President seems to think he can win this based solely on his goodwill with the American public. But he and his staff may be overestimating their influence with . . . . Continue Reading »

Most faith healers are frauds. So saith Benny Hinn, faith healer extraordinaire, in an interview with my buddy Frank Lockwood of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:LOCKWOOD: In your ministry, how many people have been healed and what kind of [illnesses] are we talking about?HINN: Well, goodness, . . . . Continue Reading »

Maybe we can work out some sort of exchange program with The Corner. They can loan us an agnostic and we can send over an evangelical.To be fair, I suspect there are a number of evangelicals that write for that blog who just don’t identify themselves as evangelical on there (Mark Hemingway or . . . . Continue Reading »

The discussion on the question “What is an evangelical? has been both fascinating and illuminating. The brilliance of the responses doesn’t surprise me (after all, I picked these folks) but I am surprised by how much I—as a lifelong, unapologeticly self-defined evangelical—am . . . . Continue Reading »

That’s the question currently be discussed on Evangel , First Things’ new evangelical group blog. We brought together some of the most intriguing thinkers and theologians in the evangelical blogosphere (and more are on the way) to discuss religion, culture, and everything else under the . . . . Continue Reading »

What does it mean to be evangelical?A term that applies to between fifteen and forty million Americans should be rather obvious. Yet few words are so commonly used while being so poorly defined. To many people the word evangelical evokes images of the “Religious Right”, of people who . . . . Continue Reading »

Pull up a seat and join the conversation. . . . . Continue Reading »

My buddy Stefan McDaniel has an On the Square article today with the intentionally provocative title “ Reverence for Words: A Case Against Blogging .” My initial reaction before reading it—because I’m the type of person who makes snap judgments based on titles—was . . . . Continue Reading »

Bryan Caplan asks and answers : One popular story about the decline in family size over the last two centuries goes like this: Back in the old days, having kids paid. Children started working when they were quite young, and provided for their parents in their old age. Then industrialization and/or . . . . Continue Reading »

Pro-life Americans should focus on restricting abortion at the state level , says Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest: A vibrant movement to restrict abortion at the state level continues: Over the last year, our legal team has provided assistance in 30 states where pro-life . . . . Continue Reading »