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This is Your Wake-Up Call
On December 13, 2012, the liver of a male infant at 17 weeks gestation was mailed from San Jose, California, to Massachusetts. The baby’s brain was sent to Stanford,...
The Master of Apologies
The Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer, minister of the Church of England and Vicar of Christ Church Virginia Water in the Diocese of Guildford, has demonstrated a readiness to issue...
The State Finds Against Parson Brown
NEW YORK STATE DIVISION OF HUMAN RIGHTS On the Complaint of JANE FORWARD AND JOAN FORWARD ...
The Church of England and Moral Hazard
I doubt anyone in the Church of England who knows Rev. Stephen Sizer was surprised that he would attend a conference critical of Israel. Sizer, the Vicar of Christ...
The Difference Three Percent Makes
In the article“Women forced to travel as Deep South closes doors on abortion clinics,”Al Jazeera America draws attention to a trend that is either heartening or ominous depending on...
Rightly Dividing the Wrong Side of History
I grew up in a place that is best known for being on the wrong side of history. If you know anything about Birmingham, Alabama you know about its...
C. S. Lewis on Friendship
In The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis writes, “Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice....
Tradition as a Source of Vintage Identity
Over at Mere Orthodoxy, Jake Meador and Alastair Roberts hold a wide ranging conversation on Lent and Evangelical individualism that includes this insightful critique: [I]n this enthusiasm for recovering elements...
What Hath Mozilla to Do with Hobby Lobby?
Last week, Mozilla, the foundation and company best known for the web browser Firefox, made co-founder Brendan Eich the company’s chief executive officer. Mozilla quickly faced an internal storm...
The Passion of Christ in Psalm 23
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I will fear no evil,for you are with me;your rod and your staff,they comfort me. You prepare a...
Giving Up the Bible for Lent
On this, the first day of Lent, I was dismayed to find this message from a Christian ministry in my Twitter feed: What are you doing for Lent? Take...
Against Christian Hypocrisy
In a column called “Conservative Christians Selectively Apply Biblical Teachings in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate,” Kirsten Powers and Jonathan Merritt accuse Christians who refuse to provide goods and services...
Marriage and Celibacy: Lifelong Grace One Day at a Time
While marriage and celibacy may technically be opposites, they have at least one thing in common. Both can seem overwhelming when one imagines them lasting for a lifetime. Even...
Honor Among Thieves
“Burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. . . . Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”...
