Dolly Parton on Faith and the Afterlife

On the final episode of the podcast Dolly Parton’s America, Dolly offered various responses to the question: “What is the theology of Dolly ...

Key Thinkers Define Freedom Apart from God

Os Guinness traces our contemporary idea of human freedom that "began in the Renaissance … blossomed in the Enlightenment and rose to its climax ...

A New Quest for Immortality

A new movement has emerged from California's Silicon Valley. It's a combination of philosophy, faith, and science known as transhumanism. An article ...

Playing God

Advances in technology have allowed scientists to come closer than ever to the physical origins of life. But they are as far away as ever from defining ...

Stephen Carter on Humanism

Author and law professor Stephen Carter writes:

My date book contains cartoons first published in The New Yorker. One shows a young boy in front of his ...

Diehard One

"The most extraordinary thing about the 20th century was the failure of God to die. The collapse of mass religious belief, especially among the educated ...

Beyond Feelings

Religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. As well can there be filial love without the fact of a father, as devotion without the ...

Sin: The Great Depression

The modern view seems much nicer to talk about than sin. Sin is so depressing. It makes people feel bad about themselves--or so psychologists tell us.

Nothing Like a Baby

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. ...

Is Christianity Better than Truth?

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself ...