Joe Carter

From the time of Adam and Eve until the late 1970s, there was”with one notable exception”only one way to make a baby: the sexual bonding of a man and a woman. That number increased to two in 1978 after the birth of Louise Brown, the first “test tube baby.” Today, there are thirty-eight ways to make a baby, almost all of which can be accomplished without sexual intercourse. … Continue Reading »

Relevant magazine takes a look at the sexual activity of single Christians. The results are as discouraging as you’d expect : The article in Relevant magazine, entitled “(Almost) Everyone’s Doing It,” cited several studies examining the sexual activity of single Christians. One . . . . Continue Reading »

Men at Arms: Rousseau and Burke Debate Masculinity and the Liberal Order Doublethink Online , Adam Nicholson 10 Essential Classics of Western Literature The Gospel Coalition , John Mark Reynolds Why Young Americans Can’t Think Morally National Review Online , Dennis Prager The Death of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Sign of the times of the day (Canada Edition): An elderly priest on the Acadian Peninsula has been barred from performing church services in the Bathurst diocese after he made remarks about homosexuals and women who have had an abortion : In a letter written in French that he provided to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Sign of the times of the day (UK Edition): Police tell cafe owner: Stop showing Bible DVDs, or we will have to arrest you Police have threatened a Christian cafe owner with arrest –- for displaying passages from the Bible on a TV screen . . . . The Salt and Light cafe in Blackpool has for . . . . Continue Reading »

Remember last month when the media noted that the divorce rates in supposedly conservative “red” states was higher than in purportedly liberal “blue” states? That seemed peculiar to Mark Richardson—an Australian!—so he took a closer look at the data : So I went . . . . Continue Reading »

Two years ago, over two-thirds of the congregation of St. Marks-on-the-Mesa of the Diocese of the Rio Grande voted to leave the Episcopal Church to join the Anglican Church in North America. As Rev. Canon Phil Ashey, chief operating and development officer of the American Anglican Council, explains . . . . Continue Reading »

As Mark Brumley observes, Martin Luther is “not a popular figure in most Catholic circles.” So why does Pope Benedict express appreciation for the original Protestant ? In his address Benedict makes a number of key points regarding Luther. First, there is Luther’s “burning . . . . Continue Reading »

Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare Public Discourse , Helen Alvaré, Gerard V. Bradley and O. Carter Snead Pro-Life Christians Challenge Congressional Republicans on Mercury Regulation Time , Elizabeth Dias Israel Offers Peace—Again Wall Street Journal , Michael Oren Megachurch pastor . . . . Continue Reading »

Bad idea of the day : Operation Restore Our Community or “ROC” . . . begins next week. The city judge will either let misdemeanor offenders work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine or go to church every Sunday for a year. If offenders elect church, they’re allowed to pick . . . . Continue Reading »