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In 1977, child psychologist James Dobson left his job at Children’s Hospital and the USC School of Medicine to open a small, two-room office, calling it Focus on the Family. During the same year Dobson created a radio show that, at its height, was heard on over 3,000 radio stations and . . . . Continue Reading »

Zimbabwe’s “Surprising” AIDS Success , The Catholic Thing (Matthew Hanley) Islam Will Find Its Own Way to Freedom , Public Discourse (Mustafa Akyol) Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as Near Collapse , New York Times (Jim Dwyer, William K. Rashbaum, and John Eligon) US Gen David Petraeus . . . . Continue Reading »

In his celebrated poem Leaves of Grass , Walt Whitman considers a potential accusation against himself and shrugs it off with a quip: Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; (I am large—I contain multitudes.) Whitman was a poet rather than a logician so we find it . . . . Continue Reading »

You might want to keep the following story away from your kids: A new study finds that not eating candy may make them fat. So saith the scientists: For the study, published in Food & Nutrition Research, researchers at Louisiana State University tracked the health of more than 11,000 youngsters . . . . Continue Reading »

Of all the current Supreme Court Justices, Clarence Thomas is probably the one whose legal reasoning is most under-appreciated. Thomas often expresses a keen understanding not only of what the law is but what it is for . A prime example is provided by Quin Hillyer in his article explaining . . . . Continue Reading »

Same-sex civil marriage is not an inevitability, argues Matthew Schmitz in today’s On the Square feature : The approval of same-sex civil marriage by the New York state legislature did not bring on the end of the world, or of history. It did not even mark, as Michael Potemra claimed in a post . . . . Continue Reading »

Gay Marriage Law Won’t Stop The Legal Fights , The Wall Street Journal (Ashby Jones) Several States Forbid Abortion After 20 Weeks , The New York Times (Erik Eckholm) Judge Explains 150 Year Sentence for Madoff , The New York Times (Benjamin Weiser) Gay Marriage Foes Target N.Y. Senators Who . . . . Continue Reading »

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At Christianity Today , Chris Norton reports on the reactions to the release of a document on the ethics of Christian evangelism. Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct is the first such document to receive a unanimous endorsement from the World Evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »

Can a person be both a Muslim and a Christian? For most of us, the answer is obviously “no.” But Yale Divinity School theologian Miroslav Volf argues in his new book Allah: A Christian Response that it is possible. Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile, a former follower of Islam, responds to . . . . Continue Reading »