World Magazine offers an interesting take on Mormonism, Glen Beck, and Christianity here . So what is ultimately the one thing needful? Rom. 10: 9-10, or commitment to conservative politics?

Most of us have guilty pleasures which we enjoy, which are not in themselves particularly immoral, but of which might still be ashamed in certain contexts. My musical GP for example, is Meatloaf . That will be incomprehensible to anyone older than 45 or younger than 41. This is because I suspect it...

In 2 Corinthians 3, Paul talks about the glory of the ministry which has been entrusted to him in a passage which draws a stark contrast between the old covenant and the new. The old covenant was indeed glorious. While Paul describes it as a ministry of death, this is not to be read as derogating...

Here is a striking quotation from G K Chesterton, writing in the context of a discussion of Aquinas's criticism of the slippery medieval theologian/philosopher, Siger of Brabant: "It is a fact that falsehood is never so false as when it is very nearly true. It is when the stab comes near the nerve...