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Don't Cede the High Ground

Our abortion views don't rest on sociological data.

Article VI Blog Interview: Stan Guthrie of Christianity Today

The following interview took place on April 19, 2007, between John Schroeder ("JS") and Lowell Brown ("LB") of Article VI Blog, and Stan Guthrie, Senior Associate Editor of Christianity Today magazine.

One-Size Politics Doesn't Fit All

Evangelical social reform is a many-splendored thing.
A Christianity Today editorial

Total Victory on Partial-Birth Abortion

Prolife leaders applaud Supreme Court's first regulation on an abortion procedure.
By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Abortion Overreach

Today's Supreme Court decision again shows that the all-or-nothing strategy is not the way to go.
A Christianity Today editorial

Peace in a World of Massacre

What Jesus calls us to when we're most frightened.
By Mark Galli

Not So Random Thoughts on Blacksburg

A few thoughts on the murders at Virginia Tech:

1. If a guy is determined to commit a murder-suicide, why doesn't he do the suicide part first?

2. Secular people know they need to say something meaningful in the wake of such a disaster, but either because of their own lack of religious faith or a misguided desire not to offend those who do not share theirs, they cannot bring themselves to state publicly that they are praying for the people affected. But don't you think saying, "Our thoughts are with you," is a little weak during such a tragedy? Prayer is always appropriate in such cases.

3. The predictable cries for gun control have begun anew. But let me ask you, if the gun was responsible for the carnage in Blacksburg, why isn't the gun being charged with a crime? The problem isn't guns; it's guns in the wrong hands.

4. These violent incidents are recurring alarmingly in our increasingly fragmented and lost society. At the very least, they indicate a lack of respect for human life, a lack of the fear of God, a lack of community, plus malice, rage, violence, and alienation. Aren't you glad human beings and society are getting better and better all the time?

Our 'Don Imus' Moment

Addressing racial issues in America is a lot like being trapped in Groundhog Day.
By Edward Gilbreath

The Barriers to Black Progress

"The barriers to black progress in America today are clearly as much psychological as they are social or economic. We have suffered as much as any group in human history, and if this suffering has ennobled us, it has also wounded us and pushed us into defensive strategies that are often self-defeating. But we haven't fully admitted this to ourselves. The psychological realm is murky, frightening, and just plain embarrassing. And a risk is involved in exploring it: the risk of discovering the ways in which we contribute to, if not create, the reality in which we live. Denial, avoidance, and repression intervene to save us from this risk. But, of course, they only energize what is repressed with more and more negative power, so that we are victimized as much by our own buried fears as by racism."

Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character

A Manifold Resurrection

Why the risen Jesus met people in five different ways-and still does.
By John Witte Jr.

Re-engineering Temptation

Fuzzy science sparks debate over treatments to reverse homosexuality.
By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

He Shall Prolong His Days

Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for sin,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 53:10-12, ESV

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

A Lamb Led to the Slaughter

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.

Isaiah 53:7-9, ESV

Man of Sorrows

Who has believed what they heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:1-6, ESV

You Can't Keep a Justified Man Down

An interview with N. T. Wright, author of The Resurrection of the Son of God.
By David Neff

Weblog: Focus Praises NAE's 'Broader Social Agenda'

The latest on the global warming controversy.