I am very pleased that people literally from all over the world are coming to SHS. The new counter lists 94 countries in less than a week. The latest visitor was from the Palestinian Territories. As-salaam . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to Nathaniel Peters for calling our attention to Christianity Today ‘s response to the Newsweek gay-marriage debacle. CT’s response is brilliant and truly devastating. I do have one quibble, though. They say, All this would be infuriating and insulting if it weren’t finally . . . . Continue Reading »
In another fine essay of remembrance for Avery Cardinal Dulles, George Weigel writes : Avery Dulles was a self-consciously ecclesial theologian, who made a deliberate decision to “think with the church.” Some imagined this a form of conservatism; if it was (and such labels really . . . . Continue Reading »
The best part of the George Bush Shoe Incident is definitely the President’s priceless one-liner: “I saw into his sole.” That’s about as funny as puns get. If sense of humor is a good rough guide to intelligence, then either Bush is really pretty smart or has a pretty smart . . . . Continue Reading »
The Discovery Institute’s embryonic Center for Human Rights and Bioethics—of which I am a part—is very concerned with working to prevent slavery and human trafficking. That is why we were so pleased that the William Wilberforce Trafficking and Victim’s Protection . . . . Continue Reading »
I have never fully gotten my mind around all of the issues involving reproduction. Women have a near absolute right to abortion—absolute in some places—while at the same time, to ensure that people who want babies can have them, we almost literally move mountains. For example: Using IVF, . . . . Continue Reading »
This link will take you to part three of my interview on Walden’s Pond, in which we deal with the radical environmental movement and its deleterious impact on the importance of human exceptionalism and he concomitant increase in nihilism that leads to the culture of death. I’m trying . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a warm appreciation of the neglected philanthropists who bankrolled the American conservative movement. . . . . Continue Reading »
In all fairness, I am not sure that this is the solely the result of socialized medicine—an epidemic would put pressure on any health care system—although I think it is a contributing factor: Apparently the UK is ill prepared for a viral epidemic that threatens to sweep the country. From . . . . Continue Reading »
Last year around this time I wrote about a Christmas carol called “Adam Lay Ybounden.” Thanks to our friend Sally Thomas , here’s a video of the carol as performed by the King’s College Choir: . . . . Continue Reading »
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