As just about everyone knows by now, Sen. Larry Craig was arrested in a public lavatory in June at the Minneapolis airport, and subsequently pled guilty to a misdemeanor -- for disorderly conduct. The news just hit the fan yesterday, and our Boise paper, The Idaho Statesman, ran … [Read more...]

One of the central sins of the Pharisees is that they had no sense of proportion. They did not know what sanctified what -- the gold the altar or the altar the gold? They did not know the difference between a beam in the eye or a mote in the eye. They did not think it odd to … [Read more...]

Given the nature of the case, these are not necessarily questions that someone might ever get to ask. A young man is coming to a father because he knows his own intentions, and he is inviting questions. He should be surprised if the young lady's father had no questions. He is … [Read more...]

A father in my congregation has asked me what sort of questions a father should be asking a young man who wants to court his daughter. It is one thing to affirm that fathers should be active in protecting their daughters, but it is quite another to figure out what sort of … [Read more...]

A couple films showing this year at Sundance are poised to top the charts . . . that is, if there are charts for which devotees of one-handed magazines are allowed to vote. Mouthbreathers everywhere, beads of earnest sweat on their foreheads, will no doubt blog their early a.m. … [Read more...]

"Women are beautiful, and men are necessary. It has been the great victory of the feminist movement to make women unlovely by persuading them that men are not needed" (Anthony Esolen, in Touchstone, December 2006, p. 5). … [Read more...]

Just a few things to say about the Ted Haggard mess. For some important background, please check out these posts (here and here) from the Bayly brothers. There are two important points to take away from this most recent evangelical moral disaster. The first is that this was … [Read more...]

I recently saw part of a commerical for the "Girls Gone Wild" videos, in which some nubile young idiots were enticed -- by the presence of cameras (the device that may not be denied), and by the beckoning promise of fleeting immortality -- to flash everybody. These poor souls did … [Read more...]

Let us begin by addressing the real sin of Sodom. But what could possibly be meant by "the real sin of Sodom?" Isn’t it obvious? The sin of homosexual behavior draws its name from Sodom. What could be more obvious? And given the corruption of the times, shouldn't we be suspicious … [Read more...]

The sin of immodesty is not a light matter. Nor is it a problem that can be isolated to this or that individual. We are God’s covenant people, and we worship Him together. We live together. Modesty in Christian women is therefore a very obvious indicator of whether or not a … [Read more...]