Life without God

Dostoyevsky reminded us in The Brothers Kararamazov that "if God does not exist, everything is permissible." We are now seeing "everything." ...

Churches Converted to Mosques

Number of London churches converted to mosques in the last 20 years: 400

The Cutting-Edge Traditional Church

Some forms of next century's church may be remarkably familiar.

On the Near North side of Chicago on Ontario Street is a McDonald's. It has a 1950s ...

"Behind the Times" but Not Outdated

It can be exalting to belong to a church that is 500 years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church ...

Third-Wave Family Structure

Futurologist Alvin Toffler has written an insightful book titled The Third Wave. Toffler suggests there are three eras, three periods of history, three ...

The Motion Picture Production Code

For 35 years, the Motion Picture Production Code served as a moral guideline for American filmmakers. The code, to which filmmakers were required to adhere, ...

Life in the Ordinary

The culture conditions us to approach people and situations as journalists do: see the big, exploit the crisis, edit and abridge the commonplace, interview ...

Fifth-Rate Psychotherapy

People are asking questions that traditional churches can no longer answer for them. ... There are a lot of self-help, pseudo-therapy groups whose basic ...

Providence, R.I., Bethlehem, Pa …

Number of places in the United States named after something in the Bible: 61,742

Aging America

The rapid aging of the American population may be one of the most significant culture-shaping forces over the next generation. Between 1989 and the year ...