I support necessary medical and scientific experimentation on animals. But I don’t think this experiment is necessary. From the story:Nasa is to expose squirrel monkeys to daily radiation doses to help them understand the effects of long space trips on humans. It will be Nasa’s . . . . Continue Reading »
As someone who has never understood the appeal of Bob Dylan (I don’t get it at all ), I naturally loved Andrew Ferguson’s long, brutal, and funny takedown of the crooner (croaker?) in The Weekly Standard : Deep thinking reviewers from Crawdaddy and Rolling Stone began toying with what . . . . Continue Reading »
Think the Western Church is Jan Crouch or Borgia Popes?Believe that English Protestantism is Oliver Cromwell tyranny in service of the cultural values of Elmer Gantry?Read Spenser and take the cure.The notion that Protestantism, at least of sort, destroys the ability to produce great literature . . . . Continue Reading »
We are now at the happy moment in politics where voters speak. Pundits must wait for the rest of America to vote and only then can they spin, massage, slice, dice and make Julienne fries of the results.Here is my prediction:If the Democrats win in New Jersey and lose in Virginia, it will be seen as . . . . Continue Reading »
I remember being in Rome more than ten years ago and developing a nice camaraderie with the hotel clerk. As we talked about our respective countries, he told me that he was beside himself, to the point of endangering his health, about what he perceived to be the casual corruption and mendacity . . . . Continue Reading »
As regular readers of SHS know, I worry a lot about the growing trend to instrumentalize human life and use it as a natural resource. Thus, I have opposed federal funding of ESCR, human cloning, redefining death for organ harvesting purposes, fetal farming, etc.I think there is a real ethical . . . . Continue Reading »
A Saudi court has ruled in favor of the public display of a crucifix , despite a Kingdom-wide ban on Christian symbols. The only proviso is that a beheaded human body has to be attached to it: RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was more than a bit astonished to see the web attention given to my previous post on David Bentley Hart’s book. I didn’t know that my “screed” would require James’s spirited defense, and I certainly didn’t know I was accusing metaphysical Mormons or Humeans . . . . Continue Reading »
I just read an excellent reflection on the role of community in the church by MacKenzie Groff. [We knew MacKenzie and her husband during her time in graduate school, when they attended our . . . . Continue Reading »