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Wilfred McClay on the relationship between our souls and our built environments : Even with all our prosperity and freedom, there is much that is amiss in the ways we live today—not only in our individual lives, but in the larger patterns of habitation that we have devised for ourselves. The . . . . Continue Reading »

Understanding Congress’s solution to the federal deficit problem, says Philip Greenspun , is easier to understand if we divide everything by 100 million: We have a family that is spending $38,200 per year. The family’s income is $21,700 per year. The family adds $16,500 in credit card . . . . Continue Reading »

Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at C.U.N.Y., explains why he thinks quantum physics affects the debate about free will and determinism. One of the problems I have with such physics-based explanations is that they do not address how the human will relates to physical matter. Without addressing . . . . Continue Reading »

When citizens engage each other in the public square, we generally begin with the assumption that everyone has the intention of being intellectually honest. We might be duped, misguided, or otherwise just plain wrong, but we take for grated that everyone believes the claims they are making. To . . . . Continue Reading »

Catholics and evangelicals used to fight over religious liberty. As Chuck Colson and Timothy George note, that’s no longer the case : The most recent meeting of Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) witnessed not just another theological discussion, but the birth of an alliance that only . . . . Continue Reading »

Carrie Lukas makes the case that the male-female wage gap doesn’t exist : Feminist hand-wringing about the wage gap relies on the assumption that the differences in average earnings stem from discrimination. Thus the mantra that women make only 77% of what men earn for equal work. But even a . . . . Continue Reading »

Ravi Zacharias, my favorite apologist-evangelist, provides some perspective: (Via: Justin Taylor ) . . . . Continue Reading »

Did Jesus not realize that Noah was a mythical person? That’s a question I wrestle with over on the Evangel blog . If you’re interested, come over and join the discussion. . . . . Continue Reading »

Did Jesus not realize that Noah was a mythical person?That peculiar question arose last week in the comment thread on David B. Hart’s OTS article where I defended the historicity of Noah. Several readers expressed shock that any purportedly educated Christian could believe that the ark-builder . . . . Continue Reading »

Those of us in the pro-life movement often claim that we live in a “culture of death.” But most of us don’t believe it. Not really. We may use the phrase as a rhetorical tool, but deep in our hearts we think that our family, friends, and neighbors wouldn’t knowingly kill another human being. We convince ourselves that they simply don’t realize what they’re doing… . Continue Reading »