Chris Mooney is a partisan author (The Republican War on Science) and a leftist political advocate. He has made a career of pushing ideological goals as if they were objective scientific agendas. And of course many science journalists—often in name only—have followed his lead, . . . . Continue Reading »
Many people make a resolution in the New Year to be more intentional, more diligent, more zealous for daily Bible reading. And God bless them in their desire and effort to be deeply in God’s Word! What is their point? Why immerse ourselves deeply in God’s Word? Here is the great news . . . . Continue Reading »
Even for Fox News, this is surprising, yet this is how every believer ought to be prepared to respond—telling the truth with meekness and gentleness. Likely, Brit Hume’s statement will be regarded as arrogant and closed-minded, but Buddhism doesn’t provide for the needs of . . . . Continue Reading »
This can’t be right. As much of the USA chatters in the deep freeze—N. Carolina facing a once in a generation cold snap—weather folk in the UK warn it is facing one of the coldest winter in 100 years. From the story:Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest . . . . Continue Reading »
C.W. Nevius has a good column in today’s San Francisco Chronicle that dovetails with a post I wrote the other day about the abuse of medical marijuana laws by patients, doctors, and “clinics.” Apparently in San Francisco—where nothing aberrant should ever surprise . . . . Continue Reading »
So I went to four of the Holiday movies. I still haven’t gone to AVATAR and, contrary to my promise, may not get around to it. I sort of buy the argument of Porcher Caleb that Christian and imperial conservatives have been overreacting to it. That’s not because pantheism in the sense of . . . . Continue Reading »
“In the same way that a wife shares together in the wealth of her husband, so that what is the husband’s is also the wife’s and, on the other hand, what is the wife’s is the husbands, so also all believers are partakers of all the wealth of God. They have all that He has . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m doing some research on the local church and what causes people to leave it, and I ran into this study from April 2009 about Changes in religious Affiliation in the U.S.From that report:Catholicism has suffered the greatest net loss in the process of religious change. Many people who leave . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare will be partially paid for by cuts in compensation to doctors and hospitals—already being short-shrifted by Medicare. It will also seek to control rates of compensation from Obamacare Central. That may or may not cut costs, but it will result in fewer physicians participating . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are this week’s must-reads from the blawgosphere: Ed Whelan explains why Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Senate confirmation process was a ” political triumph of judicial conservatism .” Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is apparently no fan of states . . . . Continue Reading »
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