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Timothy Dalrymple on the need to consider our motives when becoming “radical” disciples for Christ : Since I was planning on writing this series, I mentioned my concern that some people (including myself) might pursue radical Christian living for the benefit of what I’ll call . . . . Continue Reading »

Contracepting Conscience , Public Discourse (Helen Alvaré) Catholic Church wants to buy Crystal Cathedral , Spero News (Martin Barillas) Gay split causes upheaval for Lutheran charities , AP (Rachel Zoll) (Via: TitusOneNine ) Scientific Advances on Contraceptive for Men , New York Times (Pam . . . . Continue Reading »

Has it really come to this ? Call it credential inflation. Once derided as the consolation prize for failing to finish a Ph.D. or just a way to kill time waiting out economic downturns, the master’s is now the fastest-growing degree. The number awarded, about 657,000 in 2009, has more than . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists believe they are one step closer to finding the elusive Higgs boson or ‘God particle’—a tiny but fundamental element in the construction of life : Two separate teams, working with different detectors at the collider, reported ‘bumps’ in their data - usually . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Indian Levitation Trick Revealed (Via: Neatorama ) °°°°°° 2. Test Your Vocab: How many words do you know? °°°°°° 3. Why aren’t the oldest living people getting any older? Last month, a 114-year-old former schoolteacher from Georgia named . . . . Continue Reading »

In his 1975 book The Painted Word , Tom Wolfe attempted to expose the ludicrous depths to which modern art theory had sunk: The conceptualists liked to propound the following question: suppose the greatest artist in the history of the world, impoverished and unknown at the time, had been sitting at . . . . Continue Reading »

The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: Where to Go From Here , The Public Discourse (William Jeynes) Who Will Lead on Maternal Mortality? , The Catholic Thing (Matthew Hanley) Does the Bible say anything about cremation? , Ligonier Ministries (R.C. Sproul, Jr.) Military ban on . . . . Continue Reading »

Unemployment is terrible, but you know what can be worse (at least for young people)? Having a job that isn’t ” fun and flexible “: Generation Y, or millennials, make up roughly 50 million 18- to 30-year-olds. According to a 2010 Pew Research Center study on social trends, this . . . . Continue Reading »

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Owen Strachan on men, temptation, and the Gospe l: Arnold Schwarzenegger, father of a “love child ,” and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, long-time seducer and brutalizer of a hotel maid , join a long list of prominent modern men who have failed terribly as family men and leaders.  If we . . . . Continue Reading »