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Abortion has been a divisive issue in American culture since the sexual revolution. Yet the Bible is an unapologetic defender of human dignity. Moreover, Christians have always cared for the unborn, the orphan, and the least among us. The time is now for this generation to reaffirm what believers have always believed: everybody is created in the image of God

The evangelical adoption movement is but one strand in a long cord of Christian care for orphans. While adoption trends have fluctuated over time in different contexts, the Bible has not changed its position. The gospel is decidedly pro-adoption and on the side of the orphan. Yet many obstacles stand in the way of the Christian's mission to provide care to the least of these

The Supreme Court of Canada has become increasingly involved in determining which of the laws that the Canadian Parliament has passed are constitutional. The authority or standard by which they judge Canadian law is The Constitution Act, 1982 (containing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms). If a particular law is deemed contrary to the guarantees of The Constitution, then the Supreme Court nullifies that law. If a particular law is considered to uphold the guarantees of The Constitution, then the Supreme Court upholds that law. All the laws of Canada are interpreted through the authority of The Constitution Act, 1982. The use of written materials as an authority or standard by which we judge other writings or even behaviors is a common feature in our world today. Christians, for millennia, have operated in a similar vein. Christians use the Bible as the authority for living an obedient and faithful life. In particular, Reformed Christians have historically been known as "people of the Book." The formula of Declaration for Ministers of Word and Sacrament read by all Reformed Church in America candidates during their ordinations or installation services declares, "I accept the Scriptures as the only rule of faith and life." The Bible (or the Scriptures) is central to our Reformed heritage and faith. Thus, we believe that the Bible is the final authority by which we judge our beliefs, our patterns of thinking, our motives, our behaviors, and our attitudes.

A collection of essays that looks at the infusion of public debate and religious arguments with particular focus on American public forum. With the current climate of argument as to the maturing of our culture into a post-Christian secularism and the increase in religious and ideological diversity, the free expression of religious ideas in public debate exacerbates civic tension and undermines a society's ability to solve its most urgent problems. This book seeks to make the case that religiously informed thought has played and can continue to play a constructive role in the public forum over domestic and international issues that are weighted with moral content

This book, adopting the method of Rubin's earlier work on the image of the Prophet Muhammad, The Eye of the Beholder: The Life of Muhammad as Viewed by the Early Muslims (1995), examines hadith reports of the first three Islamic centuries that draw on Qurءanic/biblical material. He analyzes these reports as attempts on the part of Muslims to define themselves vis-à-vis the People of the Book—primarily Jews, and to a lesser extent Christians. Each of the work's three parts reflects a particular historical attitude toward the Jews and definition of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.