I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.