I don’t know of a single good parent who likes spanking their kids. I don’t know how one could. We surely hated it, but we didn’t know...

Canadian readers of this weblog will know that the current federal government has been considering establishing an Office of Religious...

UPDATE: I’ll warn you that this post is cranky. I’ve left it as I wrote it so that the comments that follow will make sense, particularly...

Recently our friends at the Cardus Centre for Public Renewal published an edition of their legal journal, LexView, that criticizes the...

Meera Bai and I spoke in person on our reasons to support InSite, Vancouver’s safe injection site that got a stay of execution from the...

Evangelical Christians have been complaining about not being included in various commemorations of 9/11, whether in New York City,...

There’s an excellent new book out from my friend Richard Mouw, philosopher and president of Fuller Theological Seminary in California:...

The recent controversies in Quebec about the government there requiring a course on  ethics and religious culture to be taken by every...

Since, as you know, I try to avoid controversy as much as possible and simply repeat bromides and other crowd-pleasers all I can, I’m...

This is the title of an article written by nurse Meera Bai, with help from her supportive Regent College professor, which is a Christian...

Not all Human Rights Commissions in Canada delight me in everything they do. (I’ve had a good breakfast this morning so I’m in an...

The Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., recently released a report called Shariah: The Threat to America that sounds the...

Part of what motivates people to oppose a mosque at Ground Zero is worry that any form of Islam, except perhaps the most liberal,...

Julia Beazley, of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, writes on a recent report that analyzes Sweden’s ten-year-old campaign to reduce...

The Canadian census has for decades asked a question about religious affiliation, thus providing Canadian scholars with data our American...

I have argued so far that Marci McDonald’s book has so many evident problems that it is hard to trust what she says in any areas one...

In the previous post, I suggested that Marci McDonald blurs important distinctions among various religious groups, movements, and...

Marci McDonald is described on the flyleaf of her new book, The Armageddon Factor (Random House Canada), as “one of Canada’s most...

Marci McDonald, who has won many prizes and held many prestigious positions in Canadian journalism, has just released a very bad book on...

Our American cousins are in the throes of a national hoo-hah over whether the National Day of Prayer, this year held on May 6, should...