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 »
My buddy Stefan McDaniel has an On the Square article today with the intentionally provocative title “ Reverence for Words: A Case Against Blogging .” My initial reaction before reading it—because I’m the type of person who makes snap judgments based on titles—was . . . . Continue Reading »
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is the smartest and richest animal rights group around. Unlike PETA, it doesn’t openly proselytize that old animal rights religion, e.g., sentience gives moral value, “a rat, is a pig, is a dog, is a boy,” the quote from Ingrid . . . . Continue Reading »
Bryan Caplan asks and answers : One popular story about the decline in family size over the last two centuries goes like this: Back in the old days, having kids paid. Children started working when they were quite young, and provided for their parents in their old age. Then industrialization and/or . . . . Continue Reading »
Check out this slideshow of modernist churches around the world. Having grown up Methodist, I was intrigued by this gallery of United Methodist Churches. An illustrative factoid from Hamburg. Steeplescapes in Bogota, some unidentified Oklahoma location, and Camden and Wiscassett, Maine. More . . . . Continue Reading »
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