Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Jonathan Merritt’s new book, A Faith of Our Own. Some of today’s leading Christian entities and voices show new life as they support a broadening agenda. Still socially conservative on many issues, they feel called to attend to issues that most Christians haven’t…  [more]

Some months ago at Think Christian, I proposed a different type of religious test for political candidates, one focused on evaluating whether policy positions reflect Christianity, not whether a candidate professes Christianity. While my initial goal was to respond to the meteoric yet short-lived rise of Rick Perry, Mitt Romney's…  [more]

Years ago I had a family law case in my courtroom where the mother and father, never married, were arguing over who would be the better parent for their son to live with. Actually, only the mother was arguing for custody; the father hadn’t bothered to show up. I’d read…  [more]

According to a recent Slate piece, we get tattoos to feel alive in our semi-awake, Brave New World, soma-holiday culture. People “are seeking an antidote to the numbed feelings and detachment that result from their idiotically screen-centered lives,” the story suggests, and “crave the enlivening, awakening, back-to-reality release which comes…  [more]

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat doesn't mince words in his new book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. Since the 1960s, Douthat argues, institutional Christianity has suffered a slow-motion collapse, leaving the country without the moral core that carried it through foreign wars, economic depressions and…  [more]