America's Creativity Crisis

Posted August 25, 2010 Read This

“For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining.”

Thus begins a recent cover story by Newsweek reporting the latest results from tests of our nation’s “creativity quotient” (CQ). The tests were designed by E. Alfred Torrence and are widely accepted as the best way to measure CQ. Children who have scored highly on...

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Many people believe that we are quickly approaching the day in which the Bible no longer exists...at least in book form. Lisa Miller of Newsweek writes about the digital bible phenomenon in her story, Goodbye to Gideon? Digital Bible Could Hasten End of Bound Scriptures.

Her encounter with two digital Bible salesmen convinced her that "the...

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Just when you think you've seen it all, someone comes along and denies the existence of Jesus Christ. A recent documentary, The God Who Wasn't There, has just been released to DVD, which Newsweek says "irreverently lays out the case that Jesus Christ never existed." The writers of the New Testament Gospels, they claim, never believed that...

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I have often spoken out on this blog about the need to forge common ground on abortion reduction. At the same time, I have been more than frustrated at the total absence of any tangible reduction policies being put forth by this administration. As I recently commented in a Washington Post article, many evangelicals have stuck our necks out to...

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