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A new study from Baylor University reveals that church congregations need to do more to help families struggling with mental illness: Mental illness of a family member can destroy the family’s connection with the religious community, a new study by Baylor University psychologists has found, . . . . Continue Reading »

An artist’s statement is a brief statement of an artist’s intention through their work, a text composed by an artist and intended to explain, justify, and contextualize his or her body of work. While such brief documents can be helpful, they would be even more useful if they all came . . . . Continue Reading »

A new Pew Forum survey explores the views of evangelical leaders around the globe : In a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, most evangelical Protestant leaders who live in the Global South (58%) say that evangelical Christians are gaining influence on life . . . . Continue Reading »

Back in March, a group of North American Catholic moral theologians started an intriguing new blog called Catholic Moral Theology . Since its inception I’ve read nearly every post and have found the contributors to be consistently thought-provoking and always worth reading. My opinion . . . . Continue Reading »

How Divorce Lost Its Groove , The New York Times (Pamela Paul) Social Contracts, Human Flourishing, and the Economy , Public Discourse (Samuel Gregg) Church of England To Approve First Openly Gay Bishop , The Telegraph (Jonathan Wynne-Jones) Some Methodist Clergy Defy Gay Marriage Ban , USA Today . . . . Continue Reading »

[Note: Since my “On the Square” column today is about Peter Singer, and since  few people are aware of how radical and influential Singer is in the field of ethics, I thought it would be worthwhile to dust off this post from last summer to shed some light what he believes.] To give a . . . . Continue Reading »

Bespectacled, balding, and thin, the Australian scholar Peter Singer has the looks of a stereotypical college professor. You would never be able to tell simply by his unassuming persona that his mind holds some of the most controversial ideas in American academia. Singer has spent a lifetime justifying the unjustifiable. He is the founding father of the animal liberation movement and advocates ending “the present speciesist bias against taking seriously the interests of nonhuman animals.” … Continue Reading »

George Weigel on the rise of the anti-Catholic Catholics : Ecclesiastes notwithstanding, there is something new under the sun in the annals of American anti-Catholicism; and that something is the rise of the anti-Catholic Catholics, self-described Catholics who make a career (or at least part of a . . . . Continue Reading »

Obama’s Views on Gay Marriage Evolving , The New York Times (Sheryl Gay Stohlberg) Justices Nix Wal-Mart Class Action Bid , The Washington Times (Audrey Gertz) Lesbian Minister Faces Trial for Flouting Church Policy on Same-Sex Marriage, The Institute on Religion & Democracy Obama To . . . . Continue Reading »

A new study finds a correlation between divorce and teen sexual activity : There might be a new argument to try when convincing your teen to wait to have sex. According to the a study conducted by the University of Iowa, women who lost their virginity in their young teens are more likely to . . . . Continue Reading »