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Baylor at the Crossroads
I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton. What drew me to Baylor is...
Sects, Politics, and Religion
Good and Bad Ways to Think About Religion and Politics by Robert Benne Eerdmans, 120 pages, $14 n For some Americans, as for the Founding Fathers, the separation of...
Review of The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture
The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture by Scott Klusendorf Crossway Books, 256 pages, $15.99 n The author has been in the trenches of the pro-life...
Book burning Halloween celebration at North Carolina church: Why didn’t I make the cut?
(HT: Ignatius Scoop ) When I came across this general invitation by Amazing Grace Baptist Church (Canton, NC) to participate in its October 31 book-burning, bar-b-que and worship service...
Obama wins Nobel prize because of “potential.” Fetus, not so lucky.
According to Lisa Schiffrin at NRO : Some people have noted that Barack Obama has not actually achieved peace, anywhere, or diminution of hostilities, or the destruction of even...
Kathleen Sebelius Meet St. Thomas More
The following is from an interview of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. It appeared in U. S. News & World Report . (HT: Ignatius Scoop ) You...
Jim Wallis is seeing things, or is Jim Wallis just being appeared to?
He exclaims : “I see lies being told, I see fears being raised, and I see violence even being threatened at these mob sessions.” He is, of course, talking...
About Those “Death Panels”…
(Originally posted on What’s Wrong with the World ) This, just up, from Sarah Palin on her Facebook page (with footnotes too!): Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement...
EEOC to Catholic college, Belmont Abbey: Quit acting like Catholicism is true!
From David French at NRO’s Phi Beta Cons : Today’s Inside Higher Ed details the rather disturbing story of an EEOC finding that Belmont Abbey College, a Catholic college...
Pelosi: Obama may be Un-American?
In an op-ed piece published on August 10 in USA Today , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer write that “drowning out opposing views is simply...
Two Book Recommendations: Fr. Crean and Professor Hart
This summer has been one of profitable reading for me. Among the many books I have read are two that are particularly outstanding. Their virtue lies in the skillful,...
Health Care Bill info from the Liberty Counsel
(HT: Davy Buck on Southern Appeal ) You can find it in either PDF or html form. It is a summary (including very brief commentaries) of parts of HR...
The End of Secularism by Hunter Baker
At the end of this month, Crossway Books is set to release The End of Secularism . It is authored by Hunter Baker , who is presently Director of...
End of Life Counseling in the Health Care System Transformation Bill
This issue has arisen in recent days. Supporters of H.R. 3200 claim that its end of life counseling provision, section 1233 , is merely voluntary for the patient. But...
Mass for Clunkers!
(HT: Creative Minority Report )
