The Megachurch Show

by Joe Carter

“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo . . . . . Continue Reading »

16 May 2010 0

When the Long Ships Return

by Joseph Bottum

From the Language Log blog , a note of a story much-reported on the web the past few days: Richard Smith, a 41-year-old care worker in Carlisle, England, did not think his name did justice to the exciting person that he actually was, so he changed his name by deed poll. The new name he chose was . . . . Continue Reading »

15 May 2010 0

Bioethics Report: Pediatricans Can Engage in “Symbolic” Female Genital Mutilation

by Wesley J. Smith

The ongoing deprofessionalization of American medicine was furthered by a just released opinion of the Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatricians, which opined that female genital mutilation is wrong—gee, really?—but that pediatricians should, perhaps, be allowed to . . . . Continue Reading »

15 May 2010 0

Global Warming Hysteria: Damning Der Spiegel Expose` of Corruption of Science by Climatagaters

by Wesley J. Smith

I just read a very detailed—and way too long for me to recount fully here—expose` in Der Spiegel, about Climategate and the bar room brawl between climate warming alarmist scientists (and I don’t meant that pejoratively) and skeptics.  It is a very important article and anyone . . . . Continue Reading »

15 May 2010 0

Celestial Teapots, Flying Spaghetti Monsters, and Other Silly Atheist Arguments

by Joe Carter

[Note: While I had intended to avoid writing any more about atheism for a long, long time, I thought I’d add just a couple of more posts on the topic. It tends to be a bit slow around here on the weekend so I thought it couldn’t hurt to extend the conversation for one more day.] You . . . . Continue Reading »

15 May 2010 0

The Lazy Man’s Guide to Evaluating Worldviews

by Joe Carter

[Note: While I had intended to avoid writing any more about atheism for a long, long time, I thought I’d add just a couple of more posts on the topic. It tends to be a bit slow around here on the weekend so I thought it couldn’t hurt to extend the conversation for one more day.] My . . . . Continue Reading »

15 May 2010 0

Compassion and Choices Uses Murder/Suicide For Political Advantage

by Wesley J. Smith

I was going to post about this case—in which a husband with cancer murdered his wife with Alzheimer’s disease, and then killed himself—because the political opportunists at the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices decided to exploit the case to push their . . . . Continue Reading »

14 May 2010 0

Croquet

by Joseph Bottum

What’s a blog for if you can’t sometimes indulge yourself? Sam Frank, the son of two of my close friends from college ends his sophomore year at St John’s on their nationally ranked croquet team. Croquet Weekend - 4.17.10 from Noah on Vimeo . Um, I know. It’s only croquet . . . . Continue Reading »

14 May 2010 0

Contracepting the Passions

by David Mills

Something a little old but perhaps of interest to some of you who missed it as I did: Michael New’s How Red States Reduce the Abortion Rate . Among the claims he addresses is the common one that government should promote contraception as a way to reduce the abortion rate. He notes that . . . . Continue Reading »

14 May 2010 0

“Founded-Better-Than-They-Said” Studies?

by Ralph Hancock

So here’s a modest effort to open up a discussable little fissure in the unified  vanguard of the political and philosophical juggernaut that we know as Postmodern Conservatism. Is it fair, and is it consistent with Pomocon-ism to say that the American Founders “founded better than . . . . Continue Reading »

14 May 2010 0