Truth Under Fire

by Whitehead, John W.

• ISBN13: 9781581340099
• ISBN10: 1581340095
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Crossway Books

Summary

The founder of the Rutherford Institute and an attorney specializing in constitutional law--who has served as legal counsel to many organizations--issues a call to fully dimensional, culture-impacting Christianity, rather than an accommodating, fragmented faith.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION How Did We Get Here?	7	(16)
TRUE FREEDOM	23	(14)
An American Dream	23	(4)
A Conservative Supreme Court?	27	(4)
When Free Speech and Morality Collide--An American Predicament	31	(6)
THE MEANING OF LIFE	37	(24)
Don't Look Back: Twenty-five Years of Roe v. Wade	37	(4)
Of Fate and Headless Frogs	41	(4)
What Does It Mean to Be Human?	45	(4)
Micromanaging Life	49	(4)
Humanity's Search for Meaning: Implications for Religious Liberty	53	(8)
SOCIETY IN JEOPARDY	61	(46)
The Diminishing Church	61	(4)
Is France Our Future?	65	(4)
Suicide--The Despair of a Culture	69	(4)
A Popular Holiday	73	(4)
Which Unborn Babies Count?	77	(4)
The Right to Life	81	(4)
The Road to an American Holocaust	85	(4)
Women Deserve More	89	(4)
Commercializing Christmas--Have We Missed the Point?	93	(4)
Thanksgiving-American Style	97	(4)
What Seinfeld Says About America	101	(6)
GOVERNMENTAL POWER	107	(22)
Forfeiting Freedom in the Name of Security	107	(4)
Techniques of Tyranny: A Terrible Trade	111	(4)
The Government's "Power Play"	115	(4)
Militarizing Mayberry	119	(4)
On Privacy and Running Red Lights	123	(6)
FREEDOM OF SPEECH	129	(34)
Detecting Politically Incorrect Speech	129	(4)
Taking a Stand at the Pole	133	(4)
Christmas in the Classroom	137	(4)
Aliens and Evolution	141	(4)
Grandstanding for Free Speech	145	(4)
Up Against the Wall	149	(4)
Take This Job...	153	(4)
The Supreme Court and the Iron Curtain: A Critical Case Tests Democracy as We Know It	157	(6)
INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES	163	(38)
When Abstinence Fails	163	(4)
Predators in Cyberspace--A Three Pronged Approach	167	(4)
Violence and Dating: How Can Parents Protect Their Children?	171	(4)
Ants in His Pants	175	(4)
Public School Teachers in Private Schools	179	(4)
Carring for Seven	183	(4)
Zero Tolerance Policy Violates Students's Constitutional Rights	187	(4)
On Jurassic Park and Public Schools	191	(4)
Nothing New Under the Sun-Generation X	195	(6)
THE INTERNATIONAL VIEW	201	(14)
Tolerating Abuse	201	(4)
More News from China	205	(4)
Russia's Search for Meaning: Implications for Religious Liberty	209	(6)
CONCLUSION	215
Believers vs. The State	215	(2)
Christians in a Torn World	217