Joe Carter

A new study reveals that, contrary to the claims of the New Atheist crowd, the more educated tend to be more not less religious: After analyzing data from a large national survey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel found that people actually tend to become more religious - . . . . Continue Reading »

Back in June I outlined how to destroy a culture in 5 easy steps : Step #1: From Unthinkable to Radical — The first step is the easiest—provided the issue can become a fetish or the topic of an academic symposium. Since both the professoriate and the perverts have a fascination with the . . . . Continue Reading »

Why, when I realize that journalists misrepresent topics that I know about, do I trust them to accurately cover issues that I don’t know much about? I’ve thought about that question for years but didn’t realize until yesterday that the late novelist Michael Crichton coined a . . . . Continue Reading »

Sex Ed Mandates and Children’s Innocence Public Discourse , Greg Pfundstein Atheists to put on event at Fort Bragg Washington Times , Tom Breen Want to Live Longer? Turn Off Your TV Time , Alice Park This Isn’t Meddling — It’s Murder The Christian Post , Albert Mohler The . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter Leithart clears up some of the confusion about what the doctrine of sola Scriptura really means : Now, I imagine that there are people who believe sola Scriptura as Smith describes it, and Protestants have always insisted that Scripture is a sufficient revelation of God’s will for us . . . . Continue Reading »

There’s an old Cold War-era joke about an ex-Communist who gets into an argument with a young man newly infatuated with Marxism. After the youth repeatedly attempts to explain why Marx and Lenin had all the right solutions, the exasperated old man finally retorts, “Son, your answers are so old that I’ve forgotten the questions.” In many ways we conservatives are like the young Marxist. We tend to be more familiar with conservative solutions than we are with the questions they were meant to address… . Continue Reading »

In the Book of Judges, after the warriors of Gilead defeated the tribe of Ephraim, the surviving Ephraimites tried to cross the Jordan River back into their home territory. The Gileadites attempted to cut them off from the fords of the Jordan and needed a a way to determine if a person was an . . . . Continue Reading »

Bryan Berrey has discovered excerpts from Thomas Aquinas’s childhood journal: (Age 4) Article XXXI: Whether I stole Laurie’s apple juice during nap time? Objection I: It would seem that I stole Laurie’s apple juice during nap time. For it was said: “Thomas, go sit in the corner. And say . . . . Continue Reading »

Nation of Faith, Nation of Immigrants Public Discourse , Charles J. Chaput Divorce reform could save billions in government aid Washington Times , Cheryl Wetzstein Federal study explores childbearing by era Washington Times , Cheryl Wetzstein As Opera Struggles in West, an Art Form Flourishes in . . . . Continue Reading »

“A less confrontational, more pragmatic force is behind a record number of anti-abortion laws and pro-choice’s ‘bad year’” So says the Christian Science Monitor in a profile of my friend and former boss, Charmaine Yoest: Yoest, the president and chief executive officer of . . . . Continue Reading »