Joe Carter

Hollywood Dishonors the Bard New York Times , James Shapiro Catholic Bishops Distribute Baptist Immigration Documentary Ethics Daily Religious studies can take students closer to or farther from faith National Post , Leah LeMoine Fast and Furious: How a Botched Operation Spawned Fatal Results . . . . Continue Reading »

A new study published in the Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy shows that the more materialistic a marriage, the less happy they’re likely to be—even if both spouses put a priority on money and material goods. From the abstract: Previous research has shown that spousal . . . . Continue Reading »

Emotional self-preservation will cause a lot of divorced (or soon to be divorced) parents to disagree with economist Bryan Caplan’s ” Rotten Spouse Theorem .” But I think an honest assessment of the evidence establishes it as all but irrefutable: Even after a bitter divorce, . . . . Continue Reading »

Who’s Allowed in the Public Square? Breakpoint , Jennifer Lahl Pornography, Public Morality, and Constitutional Rights Public Discourse , Robert P. George Some Tips for Interpreting the Rituals, Ceremonies, & Sacrifices in Leviticus The Gospel Coalition , Justin Taylor Mississippi May . . . . Continue Reading »

Whenever a Christian political activist uses a variation of “What would Jesus do?” you can be assured that they will claim that Jesus would support exactly the same political position that they do. That is why when liberal evangelical Jim Wallis asked ” What Would Jesus Cut? . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this week the Israeli government agreed to release more than 1,000 Palestinians from prison—including hundreds serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis—in exchange for one young Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. Rabbi Arik Ascherman explains the reasoning : “Judaism . . . . Continue Reading »

What Makes Evangelicalism Evangelical? The Christian Post , Albert Mohler, Jr. Obama is not the Pharaoh Middlebrow , John Mark Reynolds Preparing for a Way Out of Afghanistan New York Times , C.J. Chivers House Votes To Stop Health Care Law Abortions USA Today , Associated Press Obama Promises . . . . Continue Reading »

Clark Neily of the Institute for Justice believes that the courts are systematically failing to enforce constitutional limits on government power—though not necessarily in the way that conservatives think it happens : Broadly speaking, judges can make two types of errors in exercising judicial . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael J. New points out that the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on an important pro-life measure today : Today, the House of Representatives will likely be voting on H.R. 3, the Protect Life Act, sponsored by Rep. Joe Pitts (R., Pa.). This piece of legislation would prevent federal . . . . Continue Reading »

The Moral Dimensions of Illegal Immigration PajamasMedia, Victor Hanson Inconvenient Truths About Homosexuality Crosswalk.com , Stan Guthrie Does Faith Mean a Better College Education? FRC Blog , Rob Schwarzwalder Catholics Express Unsettling Words in Response To Translation of Mass Washington . . . . Continue Reading »