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The Briefing 04-08-13

Story 1 - The Revelation of an Ideology: judge orders morning-after pill restriction lifted Keep Reading

Leadership as Stewardship, Part One

Christians are rightly and necessarily concerned about leadership, but many Christians seem to aim no higher than secular standards and visions of leadership. We can learn a great deal from the secular world and its studies of leadership and its practices, but the last thing the church needs is warmed over business theories decorated with Christian language.

Christian leaders are called to convictional leadership, and that means leadership that is defined by beliefs that are transformed into corporate action. The central role of belief is what must define any truly Christian understanding of leadership. This means that leadership is always a theological enterprise, in the sense that our most important beliefs and convictions are about God. Our most fundamental beliefs about God determine everything else of importance about us. If our beliefs about God are not true, everything we know and everything we are will be warped and contorted by that false knowledge – and this fact points to a huge problem. Keep Reading

The Briefing 04-05-13

Story 1 - What should happen to living baby after botched abortion? A haunting moment of clarity. Keep Reading

The Briefing 04-04-13

Story 1 - Basic Human Decency Includes Celebration of Homosexuality Keep Reading

The Briefing 04-03-13

Story 1 - Living in a Violent World

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The Briefing 04-02-13

Story 1 - The Marginalization of Moral Argument in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

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Bracketing Morality — The Marginalization of Moral Argument in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

“Somewhere along the way, standing up for gay marriage went from nervy to trendy.” This was the assessment offered by Frank Bruni, an influential openly-gay columnist for The New York Times. Bruni’s column, published just as the Supreme Court was poised to hear oral arguments in the two same-sex marriage cases now before it, is a celebration of the fact that, as he sees it, same-sex marriage is soon to be the law of the land, whatever the Court may decide. “The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens of history, or whether to sit it out.” Keep Reading

America’s Coming Demographic Disaster — A Conversation with Jonathan V. Last

America’s Coming Demographic Disaster — A Conversation with Jonathan V. Last Keep Reading

The Briefing 04-01-13

Story 1 - The High Stakes of Irrationality in North Korea Keep Reading

The Briefing 03-29-13

Story 1 - Where is the moral factor in the marriage debate? Keep Reading