What would happen, I asked myself, if I googled the phrase “Christian Shoes?”This here is the “Deception” shoe for women. That’s “Deception,” as in “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” . . . . Continue Reading »
At the first Easter Vigil I ever attended I heard Edward Bairstow’s “Sing Ye to the Lord.” The choir begins with a triumphant singing of the beginning of the Song of Moses: “Sing Ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously! Pharoah’s chariots and his horse hath he . . . . Continue Reading »
Hats off to David Hoekema for having the courage to enter the lion’s den of the American Philosophical Association (APA). Hoekema is a Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. As I discussed here and here , Calvin College is one among several evangelical universities and . . . . Continue Reading »
This is standard operating procedure in the MSM these days, but it is always worth pointing out: The media are so wildly biased on some issues, they report about them as if there were only one side to the debate. Assisted suicide is fast becoming one of those monochrome issues from which opposing . . . . Continue Reading »
From the conclusion of the New York Times review of Richard John Neuhaus’ last book, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile : “American Babylon” displays Neuhaus in all his virtues—elegantly argued and written, fair-minded and with a formidable range of . . . . Continue Reading »
My alma mater has scrapped Columbus Day. This October 12, the university will celebrate “Fall Weekend” instead. The move comes after the school’s Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution stating that “Columbus Day is often celebrated in a . . . . Continue Reading »
George Bush was often accused of politicizing science. But his differences with the science sector generally involved ethics or policy differences, not hostility to empirical data. If science has been corrupted, the rot has come from within from scientists who blatantly publish ideological advocacy . . . . Continue Reading »
The CBC has produced and now released The Great Stem Cell Debate: Lines That Divide, a documentary that will soon be aired on television and perhaps in theaters. Jennifer Lahl, the CBC’s head, has worked her finger to the bones getting this film done and distributed. (Yes, I am in it.) I have . . . . Continue Reading »
George Bush was often accused of politicizing science. But the real truth is that science has been corrupted from within by too often slouching into blatant ideological advocacy or money-driven agendas. And here’s an unintended admission of that very point. The New York Times Magazine ran a . . . . Continue Reading »
This interview by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is frightening in its candor about how she apparently perceives her job as one of establishing “right” policy—which, in her case are of the Left Intellectual Elite—as opposed to interpreting and applying law as it was created by . . . . Continue Reading »
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