Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, wrote extensively on marriage and his thoughts have had a considerable influence on Christian reflection on human love. In this extract from Marriage and Virginity: The Excellence of Marriage, Augustine underlines the importance of marriage as a creation ordinance that is intended to hold society together and stabilize future generations. Every …
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When did it become unpopular for a baby to have a gender? Being a new father, my attention has been drawn to the many instances of parents’ seeming to downplay or even hide the gender of their children. The supreme example came to light a few months ago when a Canadian couple gained publicity for …
According to a team of British scientists and ethicists, experiments to “humanize” apes should be carefully regulated and certain experiments banned. In its report, Animals Containing Human Material, the working group begins with the obvious claim that “animals are not humans.” They then worry about three types of animal-human research. The first would be the …
Since I’m now stationed at SBTS-Nashville and am something of a NASCAR fan (my enthusiasm dating back to my grad school days, when I would watch Richard Petty, David Pearson, and Bobby Allison at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway and yet others such as Bobby Isaacs, Elmo Langley, and Darrell Waltrip at the Talladega tri-oval), I thought …
A new study by the American Journal of Public Health reveals that 25 percent of gay/lesbian teens and 15 percent of bi-sexual teens are homeless, in comparison to heterosexual teens, which is only at 3 percent. Here are some of the study’s conclusions: “Teens with a sexual minority orientation are more likely than heterosexual teens to …
Wayne Grudem is the widely-published author of Systematic Theology and co-editor of Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. When he turns his attention to economics, he finds that commerce is to be commended as the source of great good. His book on the subject, Business for the Glory of God, argues that work in manufacturing and …