What does it mean to be evangelical?A term that applies to between fifteen and forty million Americans should be rather obvious. Yet few words are so commonly used while being so poorly defined. To many people the word evangelical evokes images of the “Religious Right”, of people who . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette gets to the nub of the problem with Obamacare in her San Francisco Chronicle column today: It is a fiscal house of cards, built in sand, on a windy day. Perhaps that is why the president and Democrats are so desperate for a Republican vote or two—then, they can share . . . . Continue Reading »
We supposedly live in enlightened times. But like the opening scene in Blue Velvet that shows the vermin crawling beneath the beautiful appearing lawn, the downtrodden in our world are exploited and oppressed in unbelievable ways. Children are trafficked for sex. People are trafficked for . . . . Continue Reading »
Pull up a seat and join the conversation. . . . . Continue Reading »
I was asked to write a piece for an online magazine called The Church Report. I decided to expand my criticism of the lawsuit in Connecticut to redefine the word “suicide” in the assisted suicide context to “aid in dying.” The suit wants a judge to rule that when the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been warning for nearly ten years that the Medical and Bioethics Intelligentsia were committed to imposing futile care theory on the most weak and vulnerable patients. Lately, we have been discussing the pronounced threat of health care rationing under Obamacare. Today, I noticed . . . . Continue Reading »
Wayne Pacelle reveals the religious nature of animal rights in a column published in today’s San Francisco Chronicle . The head of the country’s most powerful—and rich—animal rights organization, the Humane Society of the United States (no connection with local humane . . . . Continue Reading »
Bryan Wandel has a good blog post here . Short, insightful, and well worth the read. One quibble however: Without accounting for the relationship between these two, Weber’s demystification (and ours) only regards the logical explanation of things, and not the participation and commitment that . . . . Continue Reading »
The cover story in this month’s American Conservative—Pat Buchanan’s paleocon platform—is an interview with whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, a former Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI who has been under Federal gag order for several years. I had a peripheral relationship . . . . Continue Reading »
At the morethodoxy.com blog, Rabbi Hyim Shafner cites classic Jewish commentators on the Book of Genesis regarding how we are to understand the creation story:The first is Rash”I (Rabbi Shlomo Isaac of Worms, France 1040CE-1105CE) who claims that the bible’s creation story is incorrect . . . . Continue Reading »
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