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According to the fertility industry, 30,000 babies are born each year to women who have been provided with donor sperm. Most donors prefer to remain anonymous, but what happens when a child asks, “Who is my father?” More
UNIDENTIFIED MINISTER: Give welcome to Dr. Gardner C. Taylor. KIM LAWTON: Reverend Gardner C. Taylor gets a celebrity’s welcome when he takes the pulpit in churches across the nation, and at 88, he still shows the charm that has pulled … More
Read more of Kim Lawton’s July 24, 2006 interview in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the Rev. Gardner C. Taylor. More
Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview about Gardner Taylor with Duke Divinity School professor of preaching Richard Lischer: Q: Looking at the American religious scene, how significant has Gardner Taylor been? A: He’s very significant, because he almost single-handedly has … More
The debate over religion and politicking has pitted clergy against clergy in the key battleground state of Ohio. In a highly unusual move, over 60 members of the clergy of a variety of Christian and Jewish denominations filed a complaint with the IRS accusing Pastor Russell Johnson and another pastor of improperly using their churches in political activities. More
Read an excerpt from HOW SHALL THEY PREACH? by Gardner C. Taylor, reprinted in THE COMPANY OF PREACHERS, an anthology edited by Richard Lischer (Eerdmans, 2002): Gardner C. Taylor Every preacher ought never to forget in his preaching that one … More
BOOK EXCERPT by Vali Nasr (W.W. Norton & Company, 2006) It is clear today that America cannot take comfort in an imagined future for the Middle East, and cannot force the realization of that future. Such an approach guided the … More
Read correspondent Lucky Severson’s August 7, 2006 interview in Washington, D.C. with Vali Nasr, a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. More
Is God really there? Or does the search for the existence of a supernatural being, so pervasive in all cultures ever studied, represent a universal but groundless human longing for something outside ourselves to give meaning to a meaningless … More
Read more of Bob Abernethy’s July 6, 2006 interview in Washington, D.C. with Francis S. Collins, director of the Human Genome Project: Q: How do you describe yourself as a Christian? A: I’m a serious Christian. I take my faith … More