Referring to her political future, Sarah Palin said, “If I die, I die.” When I first heard this I assumed this language was designed to feed the Christian sense of persecution. Turns out it’s even more Biblically resonant than that. Esther 4:15: “When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it…

Perhaps by the time Michael Jackson was an adult, he was drawn toward the outrageous, unusual or abnormal, but as a child he seemed to want nothing more than to be like other kids. “More than anything, I wished to be a normal little boy,” he wrote in an extraordinary essay on Beliefnet in 2000.…

As a parent of two teenage boys, we’re in a constant struggle to figure out what movies or TV shows are appropriate. (The latest debate: Bruno). It’s a struggle, and the source of much friction, but we figure it’s our parental responsibility to try to regulate sexual content. Then I saw this Burger King campaign…

To me, the most important points in my email exchange with pro-life activist Jill Stanek were: 1) She believes that contraception and sex ed increase the number of unintended pregnancies 2) Even if she could be convinced that sex ed reduced the number of abortions, she still would not support it. Many in the comment…

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